Decoder with Nilay Patel

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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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Ryan Petersen, is the CEO of Flexport, ac ompany that builds software that integrates all the different shipping vendor systems you might run into as you try to get a product from a factory in China to a consumer in ...

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09.20.2022 Can software simplify the supply chain? Ryan Petersen thinks so Ryan Petersen, is the CEO of Flexport, ac ompany that builds software that integrates all the different shipping vendor systems you might run into as you try to get a product from a factory in China to a consumer in ...
09.13.2022 Everyone knows what YouTube is. Few know how it really works. Today, I’m talking to Mark Bergen, a reporter at Bloomberg and the author of a new book about YouTube called. Like, Comment, Subscribe: Inside YouTube’s Chaotic Rise to World Domination. YouTube has always been fascinating to me because it’s such ...
09.06.2022 Rewind: How big companies kill ideas — and how to fight back, with Tony Fadell This episode was originally published on May 3rd, 2022. Tony Fadell was instrumental in the development of the iPod and iPhone at Apple and then co-founded Nest Labs, which kicked off the consumer smart home market with its smart thermostat ...
08.30.2022 How the head of Facebook plans to compete with TikTok and win back Gen Z We’ve got a special episode of Decoder today – an interview between Verge deputy editor Alex Heath and Meta’s Tom Alison, the head of Facebook. Alex is the co-host of the newest season of Vox Media’s podcast Land of the ...
08.23.2022 Advertising is everywhere. Wieden+Kennedy CEO Neal Arthur explains how it works One thing that strikes me, in all these episodes of Decoder, is how little any of us really pay attention to the advertising industry, and how deeply connected it is to almost other every modern business. After all you can ...
08.16.2022 How Selena Gomez's Rare Beauty goes viral, with CMO Katie Welch Katie Welch is the Chief Marketing Officer of Rare Beauty — the beauty products company founded by superstar musician and actress Selena Gomez. Rare Beauty sells its products online and in Sephora retail stores, and importantly, Katie does almost no ...
08.09.2022 The risky new way of building mobile broadband networks In 2019, the Trump administration brokered a deal allowing TMobile to buy Sprint as long as it helped Dish Network stand up a new 5G network to keep the number of national wireless carriers at 4 and preserve competition in ...
08.02.2022 Why Hank Green can’t quit YouTube for TikTok Today I’m talking to Hank Green. Hank doesn’t need much introduction. In fact, he invited himself on Decoder to talk about YouTube's partner program, which shares ad revenue between YouTube and the people making videos. The split is 55/45 in ...
07.26.2022 Rent the Runway CEO Jennifer Hyman thinks clothing rental is inflation-proof Today we’re talking to Jennifer Hyman, co-founder and CEO of Rent the Runway. Rent the Runway is a a pretty simple idea: it’s a clothing rental and subscription business for women which launched in 2008. The basic idea is pretty ...
07.19.2022 Is the metaverse going to suck? A conversation with Matthew Ball All right, let’s talk about the metaverse. You probably can’t stop hearing about it. It’s in startup pitches, in earnings reports, some companies are creating metaverse divisions, and Mark Zuckerberg changed Facebook’s name to Meta to signal that he’s shifting ...
07.14.2022 Land of the Giants: Facebook gets a facelift This week, we're sharing the first episode of Land of the Giants: The Facebook/ Meta Disruption. Long before Mark Zuckerberg renamed Facebook Meta and made an unprecedented pivot into the metaverse, he invented a feature that turned Facebook into a ...
07.04.2022 How arson led to a culture reboot at Traeger, with CEO Jeremy Andrus Happy Fourth of July to our listeners in the States. Decoder is only a year old, but we’ve decided a Decoder tradition is that every summer, we’re going to do an episode about the outdoor grill industry, which is gigantic ...
06.29.2022 TSA’s chief innovation officer on surveillance, security lines, and surrendering to PreCheck I’m old enough to remember what it was like to fly before 9/11 — there were no TSA lines, there was no PreCheck, and there certainly wasn’t any requirement to take off your shoes. In fact, there wasn’t any TSA ...
06.21.2022 How Mercedes-Benz CEO Ola Källenius is refocusing for an electric future Mercedes-Benz CEO Ola Källenius became CEO in 2019 but has been working for Mercedes since 1993 in almost every part of the company. During that period, Mercedes spent time getting a lot bigger; the company famously merged with Chrysler for ...
06.14.2022 How fandom built the internet as we know it, with Kaitlyn Tiffany The Verge is all about how technology make us feel. Our screens and our systems aren’t inert, or neutral – they create emotions, sometimes the strongest emotions anyone actually feels in their day to day lives. I’ve been thinking about ...
06.06.2022 What unions could mean for Apple with Zoe Schiffer Today is Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference, or WWDC. It’s one of the biggest events of the year for Apple, one of the most important companies in the world. In fact, Apple is the most valuable company in the world, and ...
05.24.2022 How Ukraine’s wide use of cryptocurrency is playing out during the war Michael is president of the Blockchain Association of Ukraine and founder of the Kuna Exchange, which lets people buy cryptocurrency and swap between them. Earlier this year, the Ukrainian government set up wallets on Kuna and other exchanges to accept ...
05.17.2022 The videos that don’t work on YouTube and the future of the creator business, with Nebula CEO Dave Wiskus One of our recurring jokes at The Verge is that every YouTuber eventually makes a video where they talk about how mad they are at YouTube. Whether it’s demonetization or copyright strikes or just the algorithm changing, YouTubers have to ...
05.13.2022 Vergecast: Google CEO Sundar Pichai on Google I/O 2022 Google I/O was this week and Nilay Patel and David Pierce had a chance to sit down with Google CEO Sundar Pichai to talk about the event and the products that were announced. This interview was recorded for The Vergecast, ...
05.10.2022 UiPath CEO Daniel Dines thinks automation can fight the great resignation Today Nilay Patel talking to Daniel Dines, the founder and CEO of UiPath, one of the biggest automation companies in the world. But not the automation you might think; UiPath sells software automation, or what consultants call “robotic process automation” ...
05.03.2022 How big companies kill ideas — and how to fight back, with Tony Fadell Tony Fadell was instrumental in the development of the iPod and iPhone at Apple and then co-founded Nest Labs, which kicked off the consumer smart home market with its smart thermostat in 2011. Tony sold Nest to Google for $3.2 ...
04.26.2022 The executive director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation on government surveillance, Elon Musk, and free speech Cindy Cohn is the executive Director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, or EFF. If you’re an internet user of a certain age like me, you know the EFF as the premiere civil liberties group for the internet. The EFF has ...
04.19.2022 A former Foxconn executive tries to explain what went wrong in Wisconsin Alan Yeung is a professor of entrepreneurship at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the former head of the Foxconn project in Wisconsin. If you don’t quite remember, the Foxconn project in Wisconsin was announced in 2017 as a massive deal ...
04.12.2022 Chris Dixon thinks web3 is the future of the internet. Is it? Chris Dixon leads crypto investing at the storied Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, or a16z. He’s responsible for leading funding rounds for Coinbase, which went public about a year ago, the NFT marketplace OpenSea, and Yuga Labs, which ...
04.05.2022 Is streaming just becoming cable again? Julia Alexander thinks so Julia Alexander was the perfect guest to come on our show and talk about the state of the streaming industry – we’re a couple years into the huge shift to streaming entertainment in Hollywood, and it’s clear the streamers are ...
03.29.2022 Steve Aoki on why he’s a ‘crypto believer’ For this episode, I’m talking to Steve Aoki. He is a superstar DJ, producer, record label owner, and prolific entrepreneur. Steve has been part of the music industry since 1996, so he’s been through a lot of these big tech ...
03.22.2022 How Robinhood is building the future of investing, with chief product officer Aparna Chennapragada Aparna Chennapragada is the chief product officer at Robinhood, the popular stock and crypto trading app. And we have some news to discuss: Robinhood is launching a new cash card today that allows people to spend money directly out of ...
03.17.2022 How the EU is fighting tech giants with Margrethe Vestager Margrethe Vestager is one of the driving forces behind tech regulation worldwide. Appointed as the European Commission’s Commissioner of Competition in 2014 and an executive vice president in 2019, she’s pursued antitrust cases against Apple, Google, Meta (formerly Facebook), and ...
03.15.2022 How WordPress and Tumblr are keeping the internet weird, with Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg Matt Mullenweg is the CEO of Automattic, the company that owns WordPress.com, which he co-founded, and Tumblr, the irrepressible social network it acquired from the wreckage of AOL, Yahoo, and Verizon. Matt’s point of view is that the world is ...
03.08.2022 The future of computers is only $4 away, with Raspberry Pi CEO Eben Upton Today I’m talking to Eben Upton, the CEO of Raspberry Pi, a fascinating company that makes beloved tiny hackable computers that are extremely inexpensive. They’re also some of the only readily available computers that are designed to be tinkered with. ...
03.01.2022 Inside Sonos' decision to sue Google with CEO Patrick Spence and CLO Eddie Lazarus This week I sat down with Patrick Spence, the CEO of Sonos, and Eddie Lazarus, his Chief Legal Officer. I wanted both Patrick and Eddie on the show to talk about when a company like Sonos makes the decision to ...
02.22.2022 Can the law keep up with crypto? With professor Tonya Evans I’m going to let you in on a Decoder secret: at the end of last year, I tasked our producers with finding better ways for us to cover crypto and Web 3.0 on Decoder. I don’t think it’s any secret ...
02.15.2022 What an NFL coaching scandal can teach tech about diversity Bärí Williams is a legal and operations advisor to tech companies who focuses on AI and diversity. Her credentials are rock solid: Bärí was lead counsel at Facebook working on various projects, including internet connectivity efforts and diversifying the company’s ...
02.08.2022 News with a Capital B: CEO Lauren Williams on why we need news for and by Black people Lauren Williams is the co-founder and CEO of Capital B, a new nonprofit media company dedicated to news for Black audiences. Capital B launched on January 31st, with both a national news site and a local newsroom dedicated to Atlanta ...
02.01.2022 The business of finding a better job, with Career Karma CEO Ruben Harris It’s an interesting time to talk to someone in the business of helping people get new jobs — we’re still fully in the middle of the pandemic-driven Great Resignation, and a record 4.5 million people quit their jobs in November ...
01.25.2022 7 CEOs and one secretary of Transportation on the future of cars Regular listeners of Decoder know car CEOs love coming on the show. There is a lot of change in the car industry, a lot of big ideas about how to manage that change, and a lot of big problems to ...
01.18.2022 Can CEO Herbert Diess reinvent Volkswagen with EVs and software? Links Dieselgate coverage on The Verge VW vows to build massive electric car charging network across US Electrify America announces doubling of charging network with 1,800 stations and 10,000 chargers Transcript https://www.theverge.com/e/22652357 Credits Decoder is a production of The Verge, ...
01.11.2022 Almost every smartphone has a Qualcomm chip inside. Where does CEO Cristiano Amon go from here? Cristiano Amon is the president and CEO of Qualcomm, and he’s always been a relentless cheerleader for what mobile computing can do for people — especially if that mobile computing is powered by Qualcomm’s chips. Links: Apple supplier TSMC confirms ...
01.06.2022 Pete Buttigieg is racing to keep up with self-driving cars In this special, Thursday episode of Decoder, Andrew Hawkins spoke with secretary of transportation Pete Butigieg ahead of his speech at CES 2022. 2021 was an eventful year for Buttigieg, the youngest and arguably the most notable person to take ...
12.21.2021 How Logitech bet big on work from home Logitech is one of those ubiquitous companies — it’s been around since 1981, selling all kinds of important things that connect to computers of all shapes and sizes: mice, keyboards, cases, cameras, you name it. Nilay Patel spoke with Logitech ...
12.16.2021 Can we regulate social media without breaking the First Amendment? So today I’m talking to Jameel Jaffer, executive director of the The Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, about one of the hardest problems at the intersection of tech and policy right now: the question of how to regulate ...
12.14.2021 The metaverse is already here — and it’s full of Pokemon, says Niantic CEO John Hanke John Hanke is the CEO of Niantic, a company that makes the wildly popular Pokemon Go mobile game in partnership with Nintendo and the Pokémon company. Pokemon Go, and its predecessor Ingress, are now the largest and most successful augmented ...
12.07.2021 From a meme to $47 million: ConstitutionDAO, crypto, and the future of crowdfunding Jonah Erlich is one of the core members of a group called ConstitutionDAO, a group that raised $47 Million to try to buy one of the original copies of the United States Constitution at an auction held by the high-end ...
11.30.2021 How an Excel TikToker manifested her way to making six figures a day Kat Norton is a Microsoft Excel influencer. She has over a million followers on TikTok and Instagram, where she goes by the name Miss Excel, and she’s leveraged that into a software training business that is now generating up to ...
11.16.2021 Why the future of work is the future of travel, with Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky prides himself on thinking very differently than other CEOs, and his answers to the Decoder questions about how he structures and manages his company were almost always the opposite of what I’m used to hearing on ...
11.09.2021 Why charging phones is such a complex business, with Anker CEO Steven Yang Nilay Patel talks to Steven Yang, the CEO and founder of Anker Innovations. The conversation covers the full stack of Decoder topics: taking bets on new tech like gallium nitride, building a direct-to-consumer business on Amazon, and the complexity of ...
11.04.2021 The secrets of the first real smartphone, with Dieter Bohn Welcome to a special Thursday edition of Decoder. You may have read on the site that Verge executive editor Dieter Bohn has been working on a documentary called Springboard: the secret history of the first real smartphone. It's about a ...
11.01.2021 Meta’s Andrew Bosworth on moving Facebook to the metaverse Facebook announced a major corporate rebrand by changing its company name to Meta. The new name is meant to solidify the social media giant’s longterm bet on building the metaverse. On this episode of Decoder, vice president of Reality Labs ...
10.26.2021 Adobe's Scott Belsky on how NFTs will change creativity Adobe is one of those companies that I don’t think we pay enough attention to — it’s been around since 1982, and the entire creative economy runs through its software. You don’t just edit a photo, you Photoshop it. We ...
10.19.2021 How Jeep is going electric, with CEO Christian Meunier This week we are talking to Jeep CEO Christian Meunier – and there’s a lot to talk about. Jeep just announced its second hybrid electric vehicle in the US, the Grand Cherokee 4xe. It also announced a plan for its ...

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