The Pulse

301 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 share9% in 2026
0%40%80%201620182022202420262016 · 0%2017 · 1%2018 · 5%2019 · 6%2022 · 66%2023 · 66%2024 · 30%2025 · 8%2026 · 9%

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

Pushback0.6/10
0510201620182022202420262016 · 0.72017 · 0.62018 · 0.62019 · 12022 · 0.92023 · 0.62024 · 0.62025 · 0.72026 · 0.6

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

Episodes measured34 in 2026
04080201620182022202420262016 · 72017 · 402018 · 692019 · 342022 · 202023 · 152024 · 202025 · 502026 · 34

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

00m4030m8060m20132014201520162017201820192020202220232024202520262013 · 1 episodes2014 · 1 episodes2015 · 1 episodes2016 · 7 episodes2017 · 40 episodes2018 · 69 episodes2019 · 34 episodes2020 · 2 episodes2022 · 25 episodes2023 · 16 episodes2024 · 20 episodes2025 · 51 episodes2026 · 34 episodes2013 · median 29m2014 · median 23m2015 · median 23m2016 · median 25m2017 · median 46m2018 · median 56m2019 · median 50m2020 · median 54m2022 · median 21m2023 · median 21m2024 · median 23m2025 · median 39m2026 · median 41mepisodesmedian 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

LLM → 402 mentions
2017peak 605.9/M words2026
first said 2023-02-28 by Ali Rowghani @0:00
crypto → 246 mentions
2017peak 182.8/M words2026
first said 2017-07-01 by Juan Benet @4:03
efficiency 239 mentions
2017peak 255.9/M words2026
first said 2016-12-26 by Sam Altman @13:08
AGI → 188 mentions
2017peak 263.2/M words2026
first said 2017-06-28 by Murray Shanahan @4:06
AI agents → 151 mentions
2017peak 270.5/M words2026
first said 2024-02-08 by Diana Hu @0:20
vibe coding → 64 mentions
2017peak 120.1/M words2026
first said 2025-03-05 by Gary Tan @0:42
moat → 51 mentions
2017peak 44.4/M words2026
first said 2017-08-18 by Wade Foster @18:26
secondaries 24 mentions
2017peak 18.9/M words2026
first said 2016-10-11 by Kalam Dennis @19:13
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