The Pulse

316 transcripts, every word counted. What Silicon Valley talks about, year by year, and who said it on this show first.

The interview, measured

Computed from every diarized word: how much the hosts talk, how hard the questions press.

Host talk share27% in 2026
0%20%40%20202022202420262020 · 34%2021 · 31%2022 · 35%2023 · 35%2024 · 37%2025 · 34%2026 · 27%

Share of speaking time taken by the hosts, from the diarized turns of every scored episode.

Pushback1.6/10
051020202022202420262020 · 0.62021 · 0.92022 · 1.32023 · 1.12024 · 1.12025 · 1.62026 · 1.6

How often claims get contested instead of accepted: the yearly mean of every scored topic segment.

Episodes measured41 in 2026
0408020202022202420262020 · 152021 · 592022 · 382023 · 522024 · 392025 · 722026 · 41

Episodes with full speaker diarization. These feed the charts around this one.

pushback = contests claims, scored 0-10 per topic segment by an LLM with a published rubric; talk share is pure math on the diarized turns.

The show itself

00m4025m8050m20202021202220232024202520262020 · 15 episodes2021 · 59 episodes2022 · 38 episodes2023 · 52 episodes2024 · 39 episodes2025 · 72 episodes2026 · 41 episodes2020 · median 43m2021 · median 34m2022 · median 45m2023 · median 44m2024 · median 46m2025 · median 31m2026 · median 32mepisodesmedian length

Every processed episode by year published. Bars count them, the gold line tracks the median runtime. The show got longer as it got bigger.

The buzzwords

crypto → 408 mentions
2021peak 425.5/M words2025
first said 2020-10-14 by Sean Weisbrot @20:13
efficiency 167 mentions
2021peak 118.5/M words2025
first said 2020-12-03 by Frank Olschlager @17:22
NFT → 141 mentions
2021peak 400.7/M words2025
first said 2021-01-26 by Justin Rankin @41:22
metaverse → 68 mentions
2021peak 201.9/M words2025
first said 2022-03-08 by Tyler Strauss @2:52
secondaries 28 mentions
2021peak 15.5/M words2025
first said 2021-03-12 by Pia Beck @13:59
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