The impossible dream of good workplace software
10 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
I’m talking with my good friend David Pierce, Vergecast co-host and The Verge’s editor-at-large,...
Rabbit CEO Jesse Lyu isn't thinking too far ahead
Mon, 07 Oct
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Rabbit’s adorable R1 gadget launched with a lot of hype, but early reviews of the device were univ...
Rabbit CEO Jesse Lyu isn't thinking too far ahead
07 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Rabbit’s adorable R1 gadget launched with a lot of hype, but early reviews of the device were univ...
The toxic transformation of Warcraft maker Blizzard
Thu, 03 Oct 2024 09:00:00 -0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Today, I’m talking to Jason Schreier, a Bloomberg journalist and author of the new book Play Nice:...
The toxic transformation of Warcraft maker Blizzard
03 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today, I’m talking to Jason Schreier, a Bloomberg journalist and author of the new book Play Nice:...
NBCU's streaming chief isn't worried about you canceling cable
Mon, 30 Sep
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Matt Strauss is the Chairman of Direct-to-Consumer at NBC Universal. That’s a big fancy title that...
NBCU's streaming chief isn't worried about you canceling cable
30 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Matt Strauss is the Chairman of Direct-to-Consumer at NBC Universal. That’s a big fancy title that...
Why Mark Zuckerberg wants to end the smartphone era
Wed, 25 Sep
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
We have a very special episode of Decoder today. It’s become a tradition every fall to have Verge ...
Why Mark Zuckerberg wants to end the smartphone era
25 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We have a very special episode of Decoder today. It’s become a tradition every fall to have Verge ...
Arc creator Josh Miller on why you need a better browser than Chrome
Mon, 23 Sep
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Today, I’m talking with Josh Miller, co-founder and CEO of The Browser Company, a relatively new s...
Arc creator Josh Miller on why you need a better browser than Chrome
23 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today, I’m talking with Josh Miller, co-founder and CEO of The Browser Company, a relatively new s...
Why Google is back in court for another monopoly showdown
Thu, 19 Sep 2024 13:10:00 -0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Google’s in the middle of its antitrust case in just as many months, after it lost a landmark tria...
Why Google is back in court for another monopoly showdown
19 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Google’s in the middle of its antitrust case in just as many months, after it lost a landmark tria...
How Philips CEO Roy Jakobs is turning the company around after major recall
Mon, 16 Sep
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Today, I’m talking with Roy Jakobs. He’s the CEO of Royal Philips, which makes medical devices r...
How Philips CEO Roy Jakobs is turning the company around after major recall
16 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today, I’m talking with Roy Jakobs. He’s the CEO of Royal Philips, which makes medical devices r...
Why AI image editing isn’t “just like Photoshop”
Thu, 12 Sep 2024 09:00:00 -0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
We’ve been covering the rise of AI image editing very closely here on Decoder and at The Verge for...
Why AI image editing isn’t “just like Photoshop”
12 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We’ve been covering the rise of AI image editing very closely here on Decoder and at The Verge for...
Anthropic’s Mike Krieger wants to build AI products that are worth the hype
Mon, 09 Sep
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Today, I’m talking with Mike Krieger, the new chief product officer at Anthropic, one of the hotte...
Anthropic’s Mike Krieger wants to build AI products that are worth the hype
09 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today, I’m talking with Mike Krieger, the new chief product officer at Anthropic, one of the hotte...
How the Wayback Machine is fighting linkrot
Thu, 05 Sep 2024 09:00:00 -0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
The web has a problem: huge chunks of it keep going offline. The web isn’t static, parts of it som...
How the Wayback Machine is fighting linkrot
05 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The web has a problem: huge chunks of it keep going offline. The web isn’t static, parts of it som...
The AI election deepfakes have arrived
Thu, 29 Aug 2024 09:00:00 -0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Decoder is off this week for a short end-of-summer break. We’ll be back with both our interview an...
The AI election deepfakes have arrived
29 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Decoder is off this week for a short end-of-summer break. We’ll be back with both our interview an...
Disney Is a Tech Company?
Mon, 26 Aug
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Decoder is off this week for a short end-of-summer break. We’ll be back with both our interview an...
Disney Is a Tech Company?
26 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Decoder is off this week for a short end-of-summer break. We’ll be back with both our interview an...
How The Onion is saving itself from the digital media death spiral
Thu, 22 Aug 2024 09:00:00 -0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
The Onion is a comedy institution — and like everything else in media, it went on a pure nightmare...
How The Onion is saving itself from the digital media death spiral
22 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Onion is a comedy institution — and like everything else in media, it went on a pure nightmare...
GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke says the AI industry needs competition to thrive
19 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today I’m talking with Thomas Dohmke, the CEO of GitHub. GitHub is the platform for managing code ...
What's next for the controversial 'child safety' internet bill
15 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
There’s a major internet speech regulation currently making its way through Congress, and it has a...
Replika CEO Eugenia Kuyda says it’s okay if we end up marrying AI chatbots
12 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today, I’m talking with Replika founder and CEO Eugenia Kuyda, and I will just tell you right away...
DOJ antitrust chief is ‘overjoyed’ after Google monopoly verdict
08 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today, I’m talking to Jonathan Kanter, the assistant attorney general for antitrust at the United ...
Booking CEO Glenn Fogel wants you to take out your travel frustrations on AI chatbots
05 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today, I’m talking with Glenn Fogel, the CEO of Booking Holdings, which owns a large portfolio of ...
AI has a climate problem — but so does all of tech
01 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Every time we talk about AI, we get one big piece of feedback that I really want to dive into: how t...
Logitech CEO Hanneke Faber wants your next mouse to last forever
29 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today, I’m talking with Hanneke Faber, the CEO of Logitech. Hanneke’s still pretty fresh to the ...
The Supreme Court ruling that could kill net neutrality
25 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Supreme Court has just taken on the entire idea of the US administrative state — and the Court...
Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe says too many carmakers are copying Tesla
22 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today, I’m talking with Rivian founder and CEO RJ Scaringe. RJ was on the show last September when...
What happened to the metaverse?
18 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week I’m talking to Matthew Ball, who was last on the show in 2022 to talk about his book “...
Biden’s top tech advisor on why AI safety is a “today problem”
15 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today, I’m talking with Arati Prabhakar, the director of the White House Office of Science and Tec...
Why The Atlantic signed a deal with OpenAI
11 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today I’m talking to Nicholas Thompson, the CEO of The Atlantic. I was really excited to talk to N...
Canva CEO Melanie Perkins is happy to provide designers alternatives to Adobe
08 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Canva got its start more than a decade ago as a different form of disruptive tech for creatives. It’...
How Big Green Egg CEO Dan Gertsacov is getting zoomers into the cult of kamado cooking
01 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It’s almost the Fourth of July, and that means it’s time for our annual grilling episode. This y...
The rise of shadow lobbying and its influence on decades of US policy
27 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today, we’re talking about politics and lobbying in America. It’s hard to imagine a time when th...
Netflix co-CEO Greg Peters on the streamer's shifting culture and where ads, AI, and games fit in
24 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today, I’m talking with Greg Peters, the co-CEO of Netflix. I caught up with Greg while he was at ...
Inside the players and politics of the AI industry
20 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We’ve got a special episode of the show today – I was traveling last week, so Verge deputy edito...
Why Tubi CEO Anjali Sud thinks free TV can win again
17 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Tubi is a free and very rapidly growing streaming TV platform — according to Nielsen, it had an av...
Remix: How private equity took over everything
13 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Private equity is a simple concept — a PE firm uses some combination of money and debt to buy a co...
AI will make money sooner than you think, says Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez
10 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Cohere is one of the buzziest AI startups around right now. It's not making consumer products; it's ...
Why the video game industry is such a mess
06 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The art of video game design is flourishing, but it feels like a really grim time to be in the busin...
Zoom CEO Eric Yuan wants AI clones in meetings
03 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today, I’m talking with Zoom CEO Eric Yuan — and let me tell you, this conversation is nothing l...
Google Zero is here. Now what?
30 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
For nearly 20 years now, the web has been Google’s platform; we’ve all just lived on it. I think...
How the FBI built its own smartphone company to hack the criminal underworld
23 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today, I’m talking with Joseph Cox, one of the best cybersecurity reporters around and a co-founde...
Google's Sundar Pichai on AI-powered search and the future of the web
20 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today, I’m talking to Google CEO Sundar Pichai, who joined the show the day after the big Google I...
TikTok's big bet to fight the ban bill
16 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Last week, TikTok filed a lawsuit against the US government claiming the divest-or-ban law is uncons...
Why Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen is confident we'll all adapt to AI
13 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen has been at the top of my list of people I’ve wanted to talk to for the...
Why the tech industry can’t crack the smart home
09 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today, we’re going to talk about the smart home — one of the oldest, most important, and most ch...
Polestar CEO Thomas Ingenlath on life after Volvo and weathering the EV slowdown
06 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today, I’m talking with Polestar CEO Thomas Ingenlath, whom I first interviewed on the show back i...
Understanding the chaos at Tesla
02 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today, Verge transportation editor Andy Hawkins and I are going to try and figure out Tesla. I said ...
Mercedes-Benz CEO Ola Källenius explains why EVs are still the future — but Apple's next-gen CarPlay isn't
29 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A lot has changed since the last time Ola was on Decoder. Back then, he said Mercedes would have an ...
Why the TikTok ban won't solve the US's online privacy problems
25 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today, we’re talking about the brand-new TikTok ban — and how years of Congressional inaction on...
Discord CEO Jason Citron makes the case for a smaller, more private internet
22 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today, I’m talking to Jason Citron, the co-founder and CEO of Discord, the gaming-focused voice an...
Disney just fought off a shareholder revolt — but the clock’s still ticking
18 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today, we're talking about Disney, the massive activist investor revolt it just fought off, and what...
Dropbox CEO Drew Houston wants you to embrace AI and remote work
15 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
At the absolute most basic, Dropbox is cloud storage for your stuff — but that puts it at the nexu...
The rise and fall of Vice Media
11 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today we’re talking about Vice, the media company: Where it came from, what it did, and, ultimatel...
Why Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince is the internet’s unlikely defender
08 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Cloudflare is an infrastructure provider basically protecting more than 20% of the entire web from b...
Why Nintendo sued a Switch emulator out of existence
04 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hello, and welcome to Decoder. This is David Pierce, editor-at-large at The Verge and co-host of The...
Mailchimp CEO Rania Succar on culture, acquisitions, and how big 'small business' really is
01 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today, I’m talking to Intuit Mailchimp CEO Rania Succar, who took over as CEO in 2022 after a pret...
Can you patent a pizza?
28 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hey everyone it’s Nilay – I’m on vacation this week, so the Decoder team is taking a short bre...
Federation is the future of social media, says Bluesky CEO Jay Graber
25 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today, I’m talking to Jay Graber, the CEO of Bluesky Social, which is a decentralized competitor t...
How Europe’s Digital Markets Act is reshaping Big Tech
21 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Both the EU and US have spent the past decade looking at Big Tech and saying, "someone should do som...
Figma CEO Dylan Field is optimistic about the future and AI
18 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We’ve got a fun one today — I talked to Figma CEO Dylan Field in front of a live audience at Sou...
Why Google Search feels like it’s gotten worse
14 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
If you’ve been listening to Decoder or the Vergecast for a while, you know that I am obsessed with...
How to save culture from the algorithms, with Filterworld author Kyle Chayka
11 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today, I’m talking to Kyle Chayka, a staff writer for The New Yorker, a regular contributor to The...
Why people are falling in love with AI chatbots
07 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Our Thursday episodes are all about big topics in the news, and this week we’re wrapping up our sh...
Guest host Hank Green makes Nilay Patel explain why websites have a future
04 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On this special episode of Decoder, science educator and YouTuber Hank Green is guest hosting. And t...
AI deepfakes are cheap, easy, and coming for the 2024 election
29 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Our new Thursday episodes of Decoder are all about deep dives into big topics in the news, and this ...
Crunchyroll President Rahul Purini on how anime took over the world
26 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today, I’m talking with Rahul Purini, the president of Crunchyroll, a streaming service focused en...
Is the Apple Vision Pro All That?
22 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Decoder team is off this week. We’ll be back next week with both the interview and the new exp...
How AI copyright lawsuits could make the whole industry go extinct
15 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Our new Thursday episodes are all about deep dives into big topics in the news, and for the next few...
DOJ’s Jonathan Kanter says the antitrust fight against Big Tech is just beginning
12 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today, I’m talking with Jonathan Kanter, the Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Antitrust...
Why EV adoption in the US has hit a roadblock
08 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We’re very excited for today’s episode, because from now on we’ll be delivering you two Decode...
Platformer’s Casey Newton on surviving the great media collapse and what comes next
05 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today, I’m talking with Casey Newton, the founder and editor of the Platformer newsletter and co-h...
Why Sen. Brian Schatz thinks child safety bills can trump the First Amendment
30 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today, I’m talking with Senator Brian Schatz, of Hawaii. We joke that Decoder is ultimately a show...
Rep. Ro Khanna on what it will take for Congress to regulate AI, privacy, and social media
23 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today, I’m talking with Representative Ro Khanna, a Democrat from California. He’s been in Congr...
How Adobe is managing the AI copyright dilemma, with general counsel Dana Rao
09 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today, I'm talking to Dana Rao, who is General Counsel and Chief Trust Officer at Adobe. Now, if you...
How Donald Trump and Elon Musk killed Twitter, with Marty Baron and Zoe Schiffer
21 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
2023 will go down as the year that Elon Musk killed Twitter. First he did it in a big way, by buying...
Why Flexport CEO Ryan Petersen took his company back
19 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ryan Petersen is the founder and CEO of Flexport, which makes software to optimize shipping everythi...
USDS head Mina Hsiang wants Big Tech’s best minds to help fix the government
12 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The US Digital Service has a fascinating structure: it comprises nearly 250 people, all of whom serv...
IBM's Jerry Chow explains the next phase of quantum computing
05 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
IBM made some announcements this week about its plans for the next ten years of quantum computing: t...
Wix CEO Avishai Abrahami isn’t worried AI will kill the web
28 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today I’m talking with Avishai Abrahami, the CEO of Wix. You might know Wix as a website builder. ...
Chaos at OpenAI: What happened to Sam Altman, and what's next
20 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What actually happened at OpenAI in the last three days? Decoder host and Verge editor-in-chief Nila...
Volvo CEO Jim Rowan thinks dropping CarPlay is a mistake
14 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today, I’m talking to Jim Rowan, the CEO of Volvo Cars. Now, Jim’s only been at Volvo for a shor...
Barack Obama on AI, free speech, and the future of the internet
07 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We’ve got a good one today. I’m talking to former President Barack Obama about AI, social networ...
AI is on a collision course with the music industry. Reservoir's Golnar Khosrowshahi thinks there’s a way through it
31 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today I'm talking with Golnar Khosrowshahi, the founder and CEO of Reservoir Media, a newer record l...
Harvard professor Lawrence Lessig on why AI and social media are causing a free speech crisis for the internet
24 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today, I’m talking to internet policy legend Lawrence Lessig. He's been teaching law for more than...
Clearview AI and the end of privacy, with author Kashmir Hill
17 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today, I’m talking to Kashmir Hill, a New York Times reporter whose new book, Your Face Belongs to...
CEO David Baszucki's mission to make Roblox a billion-player platform
12 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today we’re bringing you the last of our live-on-stage interviews from the 2023 Code Conference. V...
Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe on ramping up R1T production and competing with the Cybertruck
10 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We’ve got another interview from the Code Conference today. My friend and co-host, CNBC’s Julia...
Getty Images CEO Craig Peters has a plan to defend photography from AI
05 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Last week, when I was co-hosting the Code Conference, I got to talk with Getty Images CEO Craig Pete...
Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott on how AI and art will coexist in the future
03 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
I co-hosted the Code Conference last week, and today’s episode is one of my favorite conversations...
'The Android of agriculture': Monarch Tractor CEO Praveen Penmetsa on the future of farming
30 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We spent a lot of time here on Decoder talking about electric vehicles and the future of cars and we...