Decoder with Nilay Patel
Decoder is a show from The Verge about big ideas — and other problems. Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel talks to a diverse cast of innovators and policymakers at the frontiers of business and technology to reveal how they’re navigating an ever-changing landscape, what keeps them up at night, and what it all means for our shared future.
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Recode Decode: Rick Smith
Axon CEO Rick Smith talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his company's best known product (the Taser), how it's thinking about the ethical implications of new products aimed at police, and the controversies around facial recognition in body cameras.
49 min
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Recode Decode: Barry Friedman
Barry Friedman, the director of The Policing Project at New York University's School of Law, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about making police more accountable, the ethics of emerging technologies like AI and facial recognition, and the missing regulations that affect local communities in the US.
56 min
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Recode Decode: Innovation in the midwest
Recode's Kara Swisher and her executive producer Erica Anderson talk with a panel of entrepreneurs in Valparaiso, Indiana: Sarah Hallberg, the Medical Director of Virta Health; Eric Christopher, the co-founder and CEO of Zylo; and Robin Fleming, the CEO of Anvl.
57 min
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Recode Decode: Jana Messerschmidt
Venture capitalist Jana Messerschmidt, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about how she became a partner at Lightspeed and the co-founder of an all-female group of angel investors called #ANGELS.
55 min
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Recode Decode: Susan Rice
Susan Rice, the former US ambassador to the United Nations and National Security Advisor under President Obama, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about the "ass backwards" way President Trump has approached foreign policy and her new book, "Tough Love: My Story of the Things Worth Fighting For."
69 min
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Recode Decode: SEC Commissioner Robert Jackson
Robert Jackson, one of the five commissioners on the Securities and Exchange Commission, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about how the SEC works and the problem with perpetual dual-class stock at companies like WeWork, Facebook, and Google.
51 min
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Recode Decode: Alexis Ohanian
Reddit co-founder and Initialized Capital managing partner Alexis Ohanian talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about how he became a "dadvocate" for paid paternity leave.
59 min
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Recode Decode: Ted Baxter
Writer and health advocate Ted Baxter talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his book, "Relentless: How a Massive Stroke Changed My Life for the Better."
42 min
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Recode Decode: Brian Chesky
Airbnb CEO and co-founder Brian Chesky talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about the recent mass shooting at an Airbnb in Orinda, Calif., how the company is changing its policies to keep guests safer, and what Chesky wishes he had done differently when Airbnb was smaller.
65 min
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Recode Decode: Stephanie Ruhle
MSNBC anchor Stephanie Ruhle talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about her new podcast Modern Ruhles, the Trump voters who get overlooked by the media, and why Wall Streeters afraid of Elizabeth Warren should "look in the goddamn mirror."
50 min
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Recode Decode: The Google walkout organizers, o...
In this special episode of Recode Decode, Kara Swisher and her executive producer Erica Anderson speak with the people who organized the 2018 Google walkout — and the people who were inspired by them.
54 min
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Recode Decode: Edward Snowden
NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about why he leaked highly classified information in 2013, why that doesn't make him a "traitor," and his new book, "Permanent Record."
101 min
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Recode Decode: Ben Horowitz
Andreessen Horowitz co-founder Ben Horowitz talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about the state of venture capital, diversity in tech, and his new book, "What You Do Is Who You Are: How to Create Your Business Culture."
58 min
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Recode Decode: Bill Kristol
Conservative analyst Bill Kristol talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about the impeachment effort against President Trump, how politics has entered a "crisis of truth" in the era of Fox News and social media, and the steps that should be taken pre-emptively to ensure that the 2020 elections are free and fair.
61 min
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Recode Decode: Gary Cohn
Gary Cohn, the former Director of the National Economic Council and former chief economic adviser to President Trump, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about what he's done since leaving the Trump administration, including a "significant" investment and advisory position he's taken up in a mobile security company called Hoyos Integrity.
68 min
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Recode Decode: Politics and tech onstage
Recode's Kara Swisher talks to the creators of two new plays that intersect with tech issues: Heidi Schreck, the star and playwright of "What the Constitution Means to Me," and the writer and director of "Right to Be Forgotten" — Sharyn Rothstein and Seema Sueko.
54 min
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Recode Decode: Ronan Farrow
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ronan Farrow talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher about his new book, "Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators."
56 min
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Recode Decode: Ken Burns
Filmmaker Ken Burns talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his latest documentary series "Country Music," in which he explores the history of the genre, its place in the larger American musical landscape, and the powerful universality of "three chords and the truth."
61 min
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Recode Decode: The inside story of the Cambridg...
Cambridge Analytica’s former business development director Brittany Kaiser talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher about her new book, "TARGETED: The Cambridge Analytica Whistleblower's Inside Story of How Big Data, Trump, and Facebook Broke Democracy and How It Can Happen Again."
59 min
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Recode Decode: Rosetta Stone President Matt Hulett
Matt Hulett, the president of education company Rosetta Stone, talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher about the company’s pivot away from language-learning CDs and into a more advanced and “approachable” mobile app.
41 min
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Recode Decode: OpenDoor CEO Eric Wu / Evite CEO...
Recode's Kara Swisher interviews two CEOs in this double-feature episode of Recode Decode: OpenDoor CEO Eric Wu and Evite CEO Victor Cho.
52 min
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Recode Decode: "Antisocial" author Andrew Marantz
Andrew Marantz, a staff writer at the New Yorker, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his new book, "Antisocial: Online Extremists, Techno‑Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation."
62 min
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Recode Decode: Former HP CEO Carly Fiorina
Carly Fiorina, the former CEO of HP who ran for the Republican nomination for president in 2016, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about campaigning against Donald Trump, her friendship with Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, and the over-concentration of power among a handful of CEOs in the tech industry.
63 min
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Recode Decode: FEC Chair Ellen Weintraub
Federal Election Commission Chair Ellen Weintraub talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about how the FEC works, how it tries to defend elections from foreign influence, and why the Commission is currently immobilized by a lack of "quorum."
61 min
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Recode Decode: Obama's cybersecurity chief Mich...
President Barack Obama's former cybersecurity coordinator Michael Daniel, now the chief of the nonprofit Cyber Threat Alliance, talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher about the state of US cybersecurity heading into the 2020 elections.
63 min