Hey everyone, it’s Nilay — Decoder is on a short break this week. We’ll be back with a special live... 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

It is fair to say that Substack has had a dramatic week and a half or so, and I talked... more

Brex CEO Henrique Dubugras found himself playing an important role during the Silicon Valley Bank collapse. Brex is what you might... more

Chris Cocks is the CEO of Hasbro, a company that just turned 100 this year. Hasbro is a huge company,... more

Today I’m talking to Mastodon CEO Eugen Rochko. Mastodon is the open-source, decentralized competitor to Twitter, and it’s where a... more

Meredith Kopit Levien is the CEO of The New York Times, which is perhaps the most famous journalism organization in... more

This special episode dives deep on Taylor Swift, Ticketmaster, and how a handful of policy changes in the 1980s led... more

In this installment of our Centennial Series on companies that are over 100 years old, we are talking to Barnes... more

Gustav Söderström has worked at Spotify for a long time; his first big project was leading the launch of its... more

Intro: Steve Bandrowczak, the CEO of Xerox, an iconic company that got started all the way back in 1906 as a... more

Pali Bhat joined Reddit from Google about a year ago — he’s actually Reddit’s first-ever chief product officer, which is... more

We taped this episode live at Hot Pod Summit. That’s our conference for the podcast industry. We have a whole... more

Hello and welcome to Decoder. I’m Nilay Patel, editor in chief of The Verge, and Decoder is my show about... more

I’m coming to you from Microsoft’s campus in Redmond, where just a few hours ago, Microsoft announced that the next... more

HBO started as an experiment. It was a way to get people to switch from getting TV over broadcast antennas... more

A few weeks ago, President Biden was in the Netherlands, where he asked the Dutch government to restrict export from... more

I have this theory that music is usually about five years ahead of the rest of media in terms of... more

Last year I spoke with Cory Doctorow and Rebecca Giblin about their new book, Chokepoint Capitalism. It’s a book about... more

Tomer Cohen is the chief product officer at LinkedIn, and actually, I talked to Tomer twice. Here’s a little secret... more

We have to talk about Twitter, right? Elon Musk bought it. He’s making all these changes, and he’s realizing that... more

Today, we need to talk about Bob. Two Bobs, actually: Bob Iger, the former and now current CEO of Disney,... more

Bose is one of the most recognizable audio brands in the world: it was famous for the Wave radio in... more

Chris Licht faces an uphill battle at CNN. He got the CEO gig in the midst of a prickly merger... more

Phil Spencer, CEO of Microsoft Gaming, is in charge of Xbox and all the game studios that Microsoft has acquired... more

Dylan Field is the co-founder and CEO of Figma, which makes a very popular design tool that allows designers and... more

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is currently short a commissioner, and the Biden Administration and Senate Democrats just can't seem... more

I love covering the music industry, but over the past 10 years I’ve found that it’s one of the most... more

Steve Cagle is the CEO of Clearwater Compliance, which is a cybersecurity firm focused on the healthcare industry. Basically, they... more

Today I'm talking to Prashanth Chandrasekar the CEO of Stack Overflow – a highly specialized kind of social network, with a... more

Meredith Whittaker is the president of Signal, the popular messaging app that offers encrypted communication. You might recognize Meredith’s name... more

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg joined The Verge’s deputy editor Alex Heath for an in-depth conversation about the company’s new high-end, mixed reality... more

Today I'm talking to Pat Gelsinger, the CEO of Intel. I’ve been excited to have this conversation for a very... more

One of the more interesting quirks of the modern tech world is that there’s a really important company at the... more

Ryan Petersen, is the CEO of Flexport, ac ompany that builds software that integrates all the different shipping vendor systems... more

Today, I’m talking to Mark Bergen, a reporter at Bloomberg and the author of a new book about YouTube called.... more

This episode was originally published on May 3rd, 2022. Tony Fadell was instrumental in the development of the iPod and... more

We’ve got a special episode of Decoder today – an interview between Verge deputy editor Alex Heath and Meta’s Tom... more

One thing that strikes me, in all these episodes of Decoder, is how little any of us really pay attention... more

Katie Welch is the Chief Marketing Officer of Rare Beauty — the beauty products company founded by superstar musician and actress... more

In 2019, the Trump administration brokered a deal allowing TMobile to buy Sprint as long as it helped Dish Network... more

Today I’m talking to Hank Green. Hank doesn’t need much introduction. In fact, he invited himself on Decoder to talk... more

Today we’re talking to Jennifer Hyman, co-founder and CEO of Rent the Runway. Rent the Runway is a a pretty simple... more

All right, let’s talk about the metaverse.  You probably can’t stop hearing about it. It’s in startup pitches, in earnings reports,... more

This week, we're sharing the first episode of Land of the Giants: The Facebook/ Meta Disruption. Long before Mark Zuckerberg... more

Happy Fourth of July to our listeners in the States. Decoder is only a year old, but we’ve decided a... more

I’m old enough to remember what it was like to fly before 9/11 — there were no TSA lines, there... more

Mercedes-Benz CEO Ola Källenius became CEO in 2019 but has been working for Mercedes since 1993 in almost every part... more

The Verge is all about how technology make us feel. Our screens and our systems aren’t inert, or neutral –... more

Today is Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference, or WWDC. It’s one of the biggest events of the year for Apple, one... more

Michael is president of the Blockchain Association of Ukraine and founder of the Kuna Exchange, which lets people buy cryptocurrency... more