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 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
One of our recurring jokes at The Verge is that every YouTuber eventually makes a video where they talk about... more
Google I/O was this week and Nilay Patel and David Pierce had a chance to sit down with Google CEO... more
Today Nilay Patel talking to Daniel Dines, the founder and CEO of UiPath, one of the biggest automation companies in... more
Tony Fadell was instrumental in the development of the iPod and iPhone at Apple and then co-founded Nest Labs, which... more
Cindy Cohn is the executive Director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, or EFF. If you’re an internet user of a... more
Alan Yeung is a professor of entrepreneurship at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the former head of the Foxconn project... more
Chris Dixon leads crypto investing at the storied Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, or a16z. He’s responsible for leading... more
Julia Alexander was the perfect guest to come on our show and talk about the state of the streaming industry... more
For this episode, I’m talking to Steve Aoki. He is a superstar DJ, producer, record label owner, and prolific entrepreneur.... more
Aparna Chennapragada is the chief product officer at Robinhood, the popular stock and crypto trading app. And we have some... more
Margrethe Vestager is one of the driving forces behind tech regulation worldwide. Appointed as the European Commission’s Commissioner of Competition... more
Matt Mullenweg is the CEO of Automattic, the company that owns WordPress.com, which he co-founded, and Tumblr, the irrepressible social... more
Today I’m talking to Eben Upton, the CEO of Raspberry Pi, a fascinating company that makes beloved tiny hackable computers... more
This week I sat down with Patrick Spence, the CEO of Sonos, and Eddie Lazarus, his Chief Legal Officer. I wanted... more
I’m going to let you in on a Decoder secret: at the end of last year, I tasked our producers... more
Bärí Williams is a legal and operations advisor to tech companies who focuses on AI and diversity. Her credentials are... more
Lauren Williams is the co-founder and CEO of Capital B, a new nonprofit media company dedicated to news for Black... more
It’s an interesting time to talk to someone in the business of helping people get new jobs — we’re still... more
Regular listeners of Decoder know car CEOs love coming on the show. There is a lot of change in the... more
Links Dieselgate coverage on The Verge VW vows to build massive electric car charging network across US Electrify America announces doubling of charging... more
Cristiano Amon is the president and CEO of Qualcomm, and he’s always been a relentless cheerleader for what mobile computing... more
In this special, Thursday episode of Decoder, Andrew Hawkins spoke with secretary of transportation Pete Butigieg ahead of his speech... more
Logitech is one of those ubiquitous companies — it’s been around since 1981, selling all kinds of important things that... more
So today I’m talking to Jameel Jaffer, executive director of the The Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, about... more
John Hanke is the CEO of Niantic, a company that makes the wildly popular Pokemon Go mobile game in partnership... more
Jonah Erlich is one of the core members of a group called ConstitutionDAO, a group that raised $47 Million to... more
Kat Norton is a Microsoft Excel influencer. She has over a million followers on TikTok and Instagram, where she goes... more
Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky prides himself on thinking very differently than other CEOs, and his answers to the Decoder questions... more
Kat Norton is a Microsoft Excel influencer. She has over a million followers on TikTok and Instagram, where she goes by the... more