Decoder is a show from The Verge about big ideas — and other problems. Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel talks to a diverse... more
Today we’re talking about Elon Musk, Donald Trump, and Tesla — and I have to say, it feels like the... more
Harvey Mason, Jr is CEO of the Recording Academy, the nonprofit organization most famous for the Grammy Awards. We spoke... more
Today, we’re talking about work. Specifically, where we work, how our expectations of working remotely were radically changed by the... more
Today, I’m talking with Baris Cetinok, who is in charge of all the software in the cars that GM makes,... more
Trump and a bunch of billionaires, like Elon Musk, are calling for the FCC to punish TV stations by revoking... more
Today, I’m talking with Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky, who is only the second person to be on Decoder three times... more
Today, we’re going to try and figure out "digital god." I figured we’ve been doing Decoder long enough, let’s just... more
Today’s episode, well — it’s a ride. I’m talking to Intuit CEO Sasan Goodarzi, who’s built Intuit into a juggernaut... more
Today’s episode is a little different: Digitas CEO Amy Lanzi and I recorded this conversation live on stage during advertising... more
Luis von Ahn is the co-founder and CEO of Duolingo. There are lots of opportunities to enhance a product like... more
I’m talking with my good friend David Pierce, Vergecast co-host and The Verge’s editor-at-large, about something he spends an ungodly... more
Rabbit’s adorable R1 gadget launched with a lot of hype, but early reviews of the device were universally bad. Now,... more
Today, I’m talking to Jason Schreier, a Bloomberg journalist and author of the new book Play Nice: The Rise, Fall,... more
Matt Strauss is the Chairman of Direct-to-Consumer at NBC Universal. That’s a big fancy title that means he’s not only... more
We have a very special episode of Decoder today. It’s become a tradition every fall to have Verge deputy editor... more
Today, I’m talking with Josh Miller, co-founder and CEO of The Browser Company, a relatively new software maker that develops... more
Google’s in the middle of its antitrust case in just as many months, after it lost a landmark trial in... more
Today, I’m talking with Roy Jakobs. He’s the CEO of Royal Philips, which makes medical devices ranging from MRI machines... more
We’ve been covering the rise of AI image editing very closely here on Decoder and at The Verge for several... more
Today, I’m talking with Mike Krieger, the new chief product officer at Anthropic, one of the hottest AI companies in... more
The web has a problem: huge chunks of it keep going offline. The web isn’t static, parts of it sometimes... more
Decoder is off this week for a short end-of-summer break. We’ll be back with both our interview and explainer episodes... more
Decoder is off this week for a short end-of-summer break. We’ll be back with both our interview and explainer episodes... more
The Onion is a comedy institution — and like everything else in media, it went on a pure nightmare hell... more
Today I’m talking with Thomas Dohmke, the CEO of GitHub. GitHub is the platform for managing code – but since... more
There’s a major internet speech regulation currently making its way through Congress, and it has a really good chance of... more
Today, I’m talking with Replika founder and CEO Eugenia Kuyda, and I will just tell you right away, we get... more
Today, I’m talking to Jonathan Kanter, the assistant attorney general for antitrust at the United States Department of Justice. This... more
Today, I’m talking with Glenn Fogel, the CEO of Booking Holdings, which owns a large portfolio of familiar travel brands:... more
Every time we talk about AI, we get one big piece of feedback that I really want to dive into:... more
Today, I’m talking with Hanneke Faber, the CEO of Logitech. Hanneke’s still pretty fresh to the role: She joined the... more
The Supreme Court has just taken on the entire idea of the US administrative state — and the Court is... more
Today, I’m talking with Rivian founder and CEO RJ Scaringe. RJ was on the show last September when we chatted... more
This week I’m talking to Matthew Ball, who was last on the show in 2022 to talk about his book “The... more
Today, I’m talking with Arati Prabhakar, the director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. That’s a... more
Today I’m talking to Nicholas Thompson, the CEO of The Atlantic. I was really excited to talk to Nick. Like... more
Canva got its start more than a decade ago as a different form of disruptive tech for creatives. It’s a... more
It’s almost the Fourth of July, and that means it’s time for our annual grilling episode. This year, I’m talking... more
Today, we’re talking about politics and lobbying in America. It’s hard to imagine a time when the influence of big... more
Today, I’m talking with Greg Peters, the co-CEO of Netflix. I caught up with Greg while he was at the... more
We’ve got a special episode of the show today – I was traveling last week, so Verge deputy editor Alex... more
Tubi is a free and very rapidly growing streaming TV platform — according to Nielsen, it had an average of... more
Private equity is a simple concept — a PE firm uses some combination of money and debt to buy a... more
Cohere is one of the buzziest AI startups around right now. It's not making consumer products; it's focused on the... more
The art of video game design is flourishing, but it feels like a really grim time to be in the... more
Today, I’m talking with Zoom CEO Eric Yuan — and let me tell you, this conversation is nothing like what... more
For nearly 20 years now, the web has been Google’s platform; we’ve all just lived on it. I think of... more
Today, I’m talking with Joseph Cox, one of the best cybersecurity reporters around and a co-founder of the new media... more
Today, I’m talking to Google CEO Sundar Pichai, who joined the show the day after the big Google I/O developer... more
Last week, TikTok filed a lawsuit against the US government claiming the divest-or-ban law is unconstitutional — a case it... more
Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen has been at the top of my list of people I’ve wanted to talk to for... more
Today, we’re going to talk about the smart home — one of the oldest, most important, and most challenging dreams... more
Today, I’m talking with Polestar CEO Thomas Ingenlath, whom I first interviewed on the show back in 2021. Those were... more
Today, Verge transportation editor Andy Hawkins and I are going to try and figure out Tesla. I said try —... more
A lot has changed since the last time Ola was on Decoder. Back then, he said Mercedes would have an... more
Today, we’re talking about the brand-new TikTok ban — and how years of Congressional inaction on a federal privacy law... more
Today, I’m talking to Jason Citron, the co-founder and CEO of Discord, the gaming-focused voice and chat app. You might... more
Today, we're talking about Disney, the massive activist investor revolt it just fought off, and what happens next in the... more
At the absolute most basic, Dropbox is cloud storage for your stuff — but that puts it at the nexus... more
Today we’re talking about Vice, the media company: Where it came from, what it did, and, ultimately, why it collapsed... more
Cloudflare is an infrastructure provider basically protecting more than 20% of the entire web from bad actors. When everything is... more
Hello, and welcome to Decoder. This is David Pierce, editor-at-large at The Verge and co-host of The Vergecast, subbing in... more
Today, I’m talking to Intuit Mailchimp CEO Rania Succar, who took over as CEO in 2022 after a pretty rough... more
Hey everyone it’s Nilay – I’m on vacation this week, so the Decoder team is taking a short break. We’ll... more
Today, I’m talking to Jay Graber, the CEO of Bluesky Social, which is a decentralized competitor to Meta’s Threads, Mastodon,... more
Both the EU and US have spent the past decade looking at Big Tech and saying, "someone should do something!"... more
We’ve got a fun one today — I talked to Figma CEO Dylan Field in front of a live audience... more
If you’ve been listening to Decoder or the Vergecast for a while, you know that I am obsessed with Google... more
Today, I’m talking to Kyle Chayka, a staff writer for The New Yorker, a regular contributor to The Verge, and... more
Our Thursday episodes are all about big topics in the news, and this week we’re wrapping up our short series... more
On this special episode of Decoder, science educator and YouTuber Hank Green is guest hosting. And the guest? It’s Nilay... more
Our new Thursday episodes of Decoder are all about deep dives into big topics in the news, and this week... more
Today, I’m talking with Rahul Purini, the president of Crunchyroll, a streaming service focused entirely on anime — and really,... more
The Decoder team is off this week. We’ll be back next week with both the interview and the new explainer... more
Our new Thursday episodes are all about deep dives into big topics in the news, and for the next few... more
Today, I’m talking with Jonathan Kanter, the Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Antitrust Division at the Department of... more
We’re very excited for today’s episode, because from now on we’ll be delivering you two Decoders every week. On Monday’s... more
Today, I’m talking with Casey Newton, the founder and editor of the Platformer newsletter and co-host of the Hard Fork... more
Today, I’m talking with Senator Brian Schatz, of Hawaii. We joke that Decoder is ultimately a show about org charts,... more
Today, I’m talking with Representative Ro Khanna, a Democrat from California. He’s been in Congress for eight years now, representing... more
Today, I'm talking to Dana Rao, who is General Counsel and Chief Trust Officer at Adobe. Now, if you're a... more
2023 will go down as the year that Elon Musk killed Twitter. First he did it in a big way,... more
Ryan Petersen is the founder and CEO of Flexport, which makes software to optimize shipping everything from huge containers to... more
The US Digital Service has a fascinating structure: it comprises nearly 250 people, all of whom serve two-year stints developing... more
IBM made some announcements this week about its plans for the next ten years of quantum computing: there are new... more
Today I’m talking with Avishai Abrahami, the CEO of Wix. You might know Wix as a website builder. It’s a... more
What actually happened at OpenAI in the last three days? Decoder host and Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel talks with Verge... more
Today, I’m talking to Jim Rowan, the CEO of Volvo Cars. Now, Jim’s only been at Volvo for a short... more
We’ve got a good one today. I’m talking to former President Barack Obama about AI, social networks, and how to... more
Today I'm talking with Golnar Khosrowshahi, the founder and CEO of Reservoir Media, a newer record label that I think... more
Today, I’m talking to internet policy legend Lawrence Lessig. He's been teaching law for more than 30 years, and is... more
Today, I’m talking to Kashmir Hill, a New York Times reporter whose new book, Your Face Belongs to Us: A... more
Today we’re bringing you the last of our live-on-stage interviews from the 2023 Code Conference. Verge deputy editor Alex Heath... more
We’ve got another interview from the Code Conference today. My friend and co-host, CNBC’s Julia Boorstin, and I had a chance... more
Last week, when I was co-hosting the Code Conference, I got to talk with Getty Images CEO Craig Peters. The... more
I co-hosted the Code Conference last week, and today’s episode is one of my favorite conversations from the show: Microsoft... more
We spent a lot of time here on Decoder talking about electric vehicles and the future of cars and we’re... more
Today, we’re bringing you something a little different. The Code Conference was this week, and we had a great time... more
Today, we have a special episode for you. The Code Conference wrapped up this week, and the finale included a... more
What motivates Mark Zuckerberg these days? It's a question Decoder guest host Alex Heath posed at the end of his... more
TechCrunch is one of the most important trade publications in the world of tech and startups, and its annual Disrupt... more
The Six: The Untold Story of America's First Women Astronauts, from longtime space reporter and Verge alum Loren Grush, is... more
Okta is a big company, a Wall Street SaaS darling. For most of us, it's the thing we have to... more
Perkins Miller is the CEO of Fandom, which both hosts thousands of wikis for everything from Disney to Grand Theft... more
We have a little surprise in the feed today: An episode of "Land of the Giants," which is all about... more
AWS is quite a story. It started as an experiment almost 20 years ago with Amazon trying to sell its... more
ActivityPub is back in the news, thanks to Meta’s Threads launch and Elon’s continued immolation of Twitter — now X.... more
Today I’m talking to Anthony Casalena, the founder and CEO of Squarespace, the ubiquitous web hosting and design company. If... more
Today, I’m talking to Demis Hassabis, the CEO of Google DeepMind, the newly created division of Google responsible for AI... more
Roblox has 66 million daily users, and people spent 14 billion collective hours on Roblox in just Q1 of 2023.... more
If you’ve spent more than two minutes somewhere on social media, you have probably come across Gary Vaynerchuk. For years... more
The idea behind private equity or PE is simple: a private equity firm gathers up a bunch of cash, raises... more
Jennifer Witz is the CEO of SiriusXM. You probably know the company as the satellite radio brand in virtually every... more
Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott oversees the company's AI efforts, including its big partnership with OpenAI and ChatGPT. Kevin and I... more
Today – we’ve got a treat for you. We’re going to run a special episode from our friends over at... more
Hello and welcome to Decoder. I’m Nilay Patel, editor in chief of The Verge, and Decoder is my show about... more
Brian Chesky, the co-founder and CEO of Airbnb, was previously on the show in 2021. Back then, Airbnb was betting... more
Ben Smith is the former and founding editor-in-chief of Buzzfeed News, the founder and editor-in-chief of Semafor, and the author... more
We’ve got a special episode with Alex Heath, deputy editor at The Verge and a familiar host for Decoder listeners,... more
Travis Katz is the CEO of BrightDrop, a subsidiary of GM that makes electrified delivery vans with an eye toward... more
The idea behind private equity or PE is simple: a private equity firm gathers up a bunch of cash, raises some investor... more