Nick Statt

We have a process question. It's another process question. This is from Justin Perez, who wrote us an email. He wrote, whenever I listen to some of the interviews, not just on this podcast, I tend to have one or more questions I wish I or the host could have asked the person being interviewed.

His suggestion for the podcast for Decoder is he would really like it if the audience got a chance to chime in on a question for the upcoming guest being interviewed. It's very logistically difficult, but Nilay, why can't we easily solicit reader questions and are there ways we really could do this in the future if we wanted to?

His suggestion for the podcast for Decoder is he would really like it if the audience got a chance to chime in on a question for the upcoming guest being interviewed. It's very logistically difficult, but Nilay, why can't we easily solicit reader questions and are there ways we really could do this in the future if we wanted to?

His suggestion for the podcast for Decoder is he would really like it if the audience got a chance to chime in on a question for the upcoming guest being interviewed. It's very logistically difficult, but Nilay, why can't we easily solicit reader questions and are there ways we really could do this in the future if we wanted to?

One thing I thought of when I was reading this question was also the fact that sometimes with interviews, you want the guests to not know what you're going to ask them, right? I could imagine there's PR people who look at your Blue Sky feed, look at your Threads feed, and they go, oh, look, he's soliciting questions.

One thing I thought of when I was reading this question was also the fact that sometimes with interviews, you want the guests to not know what you're going to ask them, right? I could imagine there's PR people who look at your Blue Sky feed, look at your Threads feed, and they go, oh, look, he's soliciting questions.

One thing I thought of when I was reading this question was also the fact that sometimes with interviews, you want the guests to not know what you're going to ask them, right? I could imagine there's PR people who look at your Blue Sky feed, look at your Threads feed, and they go, oh, look, he's soliciting questions.

We've got to get him a full list of these right away so he knows how to prepare for these. I guess there's probably an element of that going on, too.

We've got to get him a full list of these right away so he knows how to prepare for these. I guess there's probably an element of that going on, too.

We've got to get him a full list of these right away so he knows how to prepare for these. I guess there's probably an element of that going on, too.

One thing we've been asked a lot in the last couple of weeks since the subscription launched is, of course, ad-free decoder. Is there a tier of the subscription that is going to include that? Is there something that people can do to remove the ads on decoder? Is that even financially feasible? How does that work?

One thing we've been asked a lot in the last couple of weeks since the subscription launched is, of course, ad-free decoder. Is there a tier of the subscription that is going to include that? Is there something that people can do to remove the ads on decoder? Is that even financially feasible? How does that work?

One thing we've been asked a lot in the last couple of weeks since the subscription launched is, of course, ad-free decoder. Is there a tier of the subscription that is going to include that? Is there something that people can do to remove the ads on decoder? Is that even financially feasible? How does that work?

We're back with Nilay and the Decoder team, answering your biggest questions and talking about what's going to happen in 2025. We're going to change gears a little bit here and start asking some bigger questions, less process, more about your thoughts on platforms and technology. So one question we have from Brian Penny on Blue Sky.

We're back with Nilay and the Decoder team, answering your biggest questions and talking about what's going to happen in 2025. We're going to change gears a little bit here and start asking some bigger questions, less process, more about your thoughts on platforms and technology. So one question we have from Brian Penny on Blue Sky.

We're back with Nilay and the Decoder team, answering your biggest questions and talking about what's going to happen in 2025. We're going to change gears a little bit here and start asking some bigger questions, less process, more about your thoughts on platforms and technology. So one question we have from Brian Penny on Blue Sky.

The Verge was one of the more prominent media outlets on threads, but for the past month, it's clear you're all in on Blue Sky much more. What caused this change? And it can't be just that meta deprioritizes news because that was true for the past year and you were all still using it as your main platform anyway. So what's going on with Blue Sky?

The Verge was one of the more prominent media outlets on threads, but for the past month, it's clear you're all in on Blue Sky much more. What caused this change? And it can't be just that meta deprioritizes news because that was true for the past year and you were all still using it as your main platform anyway. So what's going on with Blue Sky?

The Verge was one of the more prominent media outlets on threads, but for the past month, it's clear you're all in on Blue Sky much more. What caused this change? And it can't be just that meta deprioritizes news because that was true for the past year and you were all still using it as your main platform anyway. So what's going on with Blue Sky?

It's funny you say all that because kind of a cornerstone of the decoder research process is going to a search engine, typing in some information, and finding an article from 20 years ago that tells you the date of when something happened or, you know, a merger from 2002. And that's really, really important to have that information available to you.