The Pulse

64 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 share22% in 2026
0%13%25%202320262023 · 22%2024 · 22%2025 · 21%2026 · 22%

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

Pushback2.7/10
0510202320262023 · 2.82024 · 2.32025 · 2.42026 · 2.7

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

Episodes measured17 in 2026
01325202320262023 · 142024 · 112025 · 222026 · 17

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

00m13100m25200m20232024202520262023 · 14 episodes2024 · 11 episodes2025 · 22 episodes2026 · 17 episodes2023 · median 150m2024 · median 162m2025 · median 108m2026 · median 84mepisodesmedian 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 → 158 mentions
2023peak 342.8/M words2026
first said 2023-03-12 by Nikhil Kamath @12:47
efficiency 157 mentions
2023peak 138.6/M words2026
first said 2023-03-12 by Umang Bedi @1:10:26
LLM → 92 mentions
2023peak 159.3/M words2026
first said 2023-11-20 by Tanmay Bhat @2:54:26
metaverse → 89 mentions
2023peak 224.2/M words2026
first said 2023-03-12 by Tanmay Bhat @6:30
AGI → 51 mentions
2023peak 90.1/M words2026
first said 2023-05-14 by Varun Mayya @1:16:15
moat → 43 mentions
2023peak 42/M words2026
first said 2023-05-14 by Varun Mayya @54:36
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