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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How Big Green Egg CEO Dan Gertsacov is getting ...
Fire is literally the oldest technology humanity has, but grilling is a very modern business.
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The rise of shadow lobbying and its influence o...
Wolves of K Street co-author Brody Mullins breaks down the dark history of lobbying in American politics.
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Netflix co-CEO Greg Peters on the streamer's sh...
The co-CEO who replaced co-founder Reed Hastings details the company’s new culture memo, its advertising ambitions, and what’s next for Netflix.
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Inside the players and politics of the AI industry
Guest host Alex Heath sits down with senior reporter Kylie Robison to discuss what it’s like to be fully immersed in the modern AI industry every single day.
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Why Tubi CEO Anjali Sud thinks free TV can win ...
Tubi isn’t just competing with Netflix for your time; it needs to beat TikTok, too.
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Remix: How private equity took over everything
Chains keep collapsing after investors buy them. How did we get here?
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AI will make money sooner than you think, says ...
Enterprise customers are apparently ready to start trusting.
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Why the video game industry is such a mess
The layoffs will continue until everything is Fortnite
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Zoom CEO Eric Yuan wants AI clones in meetings
Zoom wants to be much more than a videoconferencing app — it wants to take on Microsoft and Google and become a major player in AI.
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Google Zero is here. Now what?
Search is an invisible platform that shaped the entire web. And now it’s changing.
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How the FBI built its own smartphone company to...
Journalist Joseph Cox, author of the new book Dark Wire, tells us the fascinating story behind secure phone startup Anom.
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Google's Sundar Pichai on AI-powered search and...
The head of Google joined Decoder to talk about the state of AI, the major changes rolling out now to Google Search, and the future of the web.
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TikTok's big bet to fight the ban bill
The good, the bad, and the weird in TikTok's lawsuit against the US
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Why Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen is confident we'...
The tech and consumers aren’t quite there yet, but Adobe’s betting big on an AI future.
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Why the tech industry can’t crack the smart home
Despite years of improving hardware and software, the smart home is still a confusing and frustrating mess. Can the Matter standard fix it?
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Polestar CEO Thomas Ingenlath on life after Vol...
Polestar, now a more independent brand distinct from Volvo, is gearing up to deliver more affordable cars this year.
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Understanding the chaos at Tesla
Tesla is in crisis and now stands at a major crossroads as Elon Musk tries to transform the business from a regular old car maker into an AI and robotics company.
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Mercedes-Benz CEO Ola Källenius explains why EV...
2030 might not be the year the whole lineup goes electric, but it’s still coming.
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Why the TikTok ban won't solve the US's online ...
The Biden administration just passed a historic bill banning TikTok, but the US’s lack of federal privacy protection remains a much bigger problem to solve.
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Discord CEO Jason Citron makes the case for a s...
For teens and gamers, Discord has become their entire online social lives. Now, CEO Jason Citron thinks the world is headed more in that direction.
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Disney just fought off a shareholder revolt — b...
Disney’s latest boardroom bout with an activist investor reveals much deeper issues with the streaming industry and, more broadly, the state of entertainment itself.
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Dropbox CEO Drew Houston wants you to embrace A...
There is no ‘go back to 2019 button’
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The rise and fall of Vice Media
How the high-flying media company flush with hundreds of millions in investor capital collapsed into a smaller, sadder version of itself.
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Why Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince is the intern...
Free speech, war zones, and what Aristotle has to do with internet infrastructure
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Why Nintendo sued a Switch emulator out of exis...
Nintendo brought a lawsuit against the makers of the Yuzu emulator for copyright infringement, and the aftermath has upended the video game emulation community.
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