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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Biometrics? Bring it on: Why Okta’s Jameeka Gre...
How do you define what it means to be you in the all-digital 21st century — and how should systems protect that?
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Fandom runs some of the biggest communities on ...
Users might not love ads, AI, and big changes in social media, but Perkins thinks Fandom is ready to survive and thrive in our weird new landscape.
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Land of the Giants: Tesla vs. The Competition
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There's no AI without the cloud, says AWS CEO A...
AWS has been around for nearly all the big computing transformations of the 21st century so far. Adam's not worried about the next one.
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Rewind: Can Mastodon seize the moment from Twit...
Activity Pub is having another big moment thanks to Threads and Elon’s Twitter takeover, here’s a look back at what Mastodon CEO Eugen Rochko thinks about the future of social media
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Why would anyone make a website in 2023? Square...
Squarespace has lived through the eras of domain squatting, SEO keywords, social algorithms and is now launching AI tools. Here's what's next for the 20-year-old company.
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Inside Google’s big AI shuffle — and how it pla...
Google invented a lot of core AI technology, and now the company’s turning to Demis to get back in front of the AI race
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Why CEO David Baszucki is ready for Roblox to g...
With over 66 million daily users, the virtual world platform is now allowing experiences exclusively for people 17 and up. What’s driving Roblox’s push to age up?
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Gary Vaynerchuk is ‘petrified’ of Slack
Running the Vayner empire takes a lot of delegation — and a lot of emoji. The internet’s own GaryVee takes us through his process for mastering the present state of social media over and over again.
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Private equity bought out your doctor and bankr...
Author and federal prosecutor Brendan Ballou explains why private equity is buying everything from vet offices to tech conglomerates, how it’s broken, and what can be done to fix it.
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SiriusXM’s 360 strategy with CEO Jennifer Witz
SiriusXM has scooped up Stitcher, Pandora, Team CoCo and more in recent years, but satellite radio in cars still drives the business.
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Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott on AI copilots, disag...
Microsoft is putting AI copilots in everything. Will it change the way we use computers?
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Recode Media: Inside the AI Gold Rush
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Exclusive: Google’s Sundar Pichai talks Search,...
AI is one the deepest platform shifts ever, says Google’s CEO, and he’s not worried about being first.
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I can't make products just for 41 year old tech...
Airbnb is revamping its Rooms feature while eyeing AI and betting on work from anywhere.
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The social media age for news is over. Former B...
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Bitcoin is still the future of payments, says L...
Crypto has a lot of haters these days. A former Facebook exec is trying to prove them wrong with his Bitcoin startup.
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Brightdrop isn’t just selling electric vans — i...
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Is Substack Notes a ‘Twitter clone’? We asked C...
Can Substack handle the wrath of Elon Musk and the pain of content moderation?
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Watching Silicon Valley Bank melt down from the...
Everybody hates Concur. Brex wants to replace it.
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The surprisingly complex business of toys, with...
Activist investors, unhappy Magic fans, and a D&D licensing battle all at once — oh, and there are Transformers, too.
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Can Mastodon seize the moment from Twitter?
CEO Eugen Rochko on running - and growing — a decentralized social network
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How to play the long game, with New York Times ...
Can Wordle, the Athletic, and Cooking bring the Times bundle to all of America?
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Taylor Swift vs. Ronald Reagan: The Ticketmaste...
From antitrust to Anti-Hero: How the ghost of Ronald Reagan kept fans from getting Taylor Swift tickets.
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‘The Goliath is Amazon’: after 100 years, Barne...
CEO James Daunt explains how Barnes & Noble is different than Amazon.
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