Decoder with Nilay Patel
Episodes
Mark Zuckerberg on Threads, the future of AI, and Quest 3
27 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What motivates Mark Zuckerberg these days? It's a question Decoder guest host Alex Heath posed at the end of his interview last week, after he and Zuc...
After 10 years covering startups, former TechCrunch EIC Matthew Panzarino tells us what's next
19 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
TechCrunch is one of the most important trade publications in the world of tech and startups, and its annual Disrupt conference is where dozens of maj...
More than Sally Ride: Loren Grush explains how NASA’s first women astronauts changed space
12 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Six: The Untold Story of America's First Women Astronauts, from longtime space reporter and Verge alum Loren Grush, is out today. It’s been 40 y...
Biometrics? Bring it on: Why Okta’s Jameeka Green Aaron wants passwords to go away
29 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Okta is a big company, a Wall Street SaaS darling. For most of us, it's the thing we have to log into 50 times a week just to get any work done. But f...
Fandom runs some of the biggest communities on the web. Can CEO Perkins Miller keep them happy?
22 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Perkins Miller is the CEO of Fandom, which both hosts thousands of wikis for everything from Disney to Grand Theft Auto and also runs several publicat...
Land of the Giants: Tesla vs. The Competition
15 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We have a little surprise in the feed today: An episode of "Land of the Giants," which is all about Tesla this season. Former Verge transportation rep...
There's no AI without the cloud, says AWS CEO Adam Selipsky
08 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
AWS is quite a story. It started as an experiment almost 20 years ago with Amazon trying to sell its excess server capacity. And people really doubted...
Rewind: Can Mastodon seize the moment from Twitter?
25 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
ActivityPub is back in the news, thanks to Meta’s Threads launch and Elon’s continued immolation of Twitter — now X. That makes this the perfect...
Why would anyone make a website in 2023? Squarespace CEO Anthony Casalena has some ideas
18 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today I’m talking to Anthony Casalena, the founder and CEO of Squarespace, the ubiquitous web hosting and design company. If you’re a podcast list...
Inside Google’s big AI shuffle — and how it plans to stay competitive, with Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis
10 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today, I’m talking to Demis Hassabis, the CEO of Google DeepMind, the newly created division of Google responsible for AI efforts across the company...
Why CEO David Baszucki is ready for Roblox to grow up
27 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Roblox has 66 million daily users, and people spent 14 billion collective hours on Roblox in just Q1 of 2023. But its CEO David Baszucki still wants t...
Gary Vaynerchuk is ‘petrified’ of Slack
21 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
If you’ve spent more than two minutes somewhere on social media, you have probably come across Gary Vaynerchuk. For years I have wondered, is this j...
Private equity bought out your doctor and bankrupted Toys”R”Us. Here’s why that matters.
13 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The idea behind private equity or PE is simple: a private equity firm gathers up a bunch of cash, raises some investor cash and takes on a lot of debt...
SiriusXM’s 360 strategy with CEO Jennifer Witz
06 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Jennifer Witz is the CEO of SiriusXM. You probably know the company as the satellite radio brand in virtually every new car, but it also owns Pandora,...
Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott on AI copilots, disagreeing with OpenAI, and Sydney making a comeback
23 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott oversees the company's AI efforts, including its big partnership with OpenAI and ChatGPT. Kevin and I spoke ahead of his key...
Recode Media: Inside the AI Gold Rush
16 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today – we’ve got a treat for you. We’re going to run a special episode from our friends over at Vox. Peter Kafka and his team just wrapped up a...
Exclusive: Google’s Sundar Pichai talks Search, AI, and dancing with Microsoft
12 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Hello and welcome to Decoder. I’m Nilay Patel, editor in chief of The Verge, and Decoder is my show about big ideas, and other problems. We have a ...
I can't make products just for 41 year old tech founders," Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky on taking it back to the basics
09 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Brian Chesky, the co-founder and CEO of Airbnb, was previously on the show in 2021. Back then, Airbnb was betting big on long-term stays for remote wo...
The social media age for news is over. Former BuzzFeed News editor Ben Smith on what’s next
02 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ben Smith is the former and founding editor-in-chief of Buzzfeed News, the founder and editor-in-chief of Semafor, and the author of a new book called...
Bitcoin is still the future of payments, says Lightspark CEO David Marcus
25 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We’ve got a special episode with Alex Heath, deputy editor at The Verge and a familiar host for Decoder listeners, and David Marcus, the CEO of Ligh...
Brightdrop isn’t just selling electric vans — it's redesigning delivery
18 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Travis Katz is the CEO of BrightDrop, a subsidiary of GM that makes electrified delivery vans with an eye toward rebooting all of how delivery works. ...
Is Substack Notes a ‘Twitter clone’? We asked CEO Chris Best.
13 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It is fair to say that Substack has had a dramatic week and a half or so, and I talked to their CEO Chris Best about it. The company announced a new f...
Watching Silicon Valley Bank melt down from the front row with Brex CEO Henrique Dubugras
04 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Brex CEO Henrique Dubugras found himself playing an important role during the Silicon Valley Bank collapse. Brex is what you might call a neobank — ...
The surprisingly complex business of toys, with Hasbro CEO Chris Cocks
31 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Chris Cocks is the CEO of Hasbro, a company that just turned 100 this year. Hasbro is a huge company, making everything from Transformers to Lincoln L...
Can Mastodon seize the moment from Twitter?
28 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today I’m talking to Mastodon CEO Eugen Rochko. Mastodon is the open-source, decentralized competitor to Twitter, and it’s where a lot of Twitter ...
How to play the long game, with New York Times CEO Meredith Kopit Levien
23 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Meredith Kopit Levien is the CEO of The New York Times, which is perhaps the most famous journalism organization in the world, and certainly one of Am...
Taylor Swift vs. Ronald Reagan: The Ticketmaster story
21 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This special episode dives deep on Taylor Swift, Ticketmaster, and how a handful of policy changes in the 1980s led to one firm so thoroughly dominati...
‘The Goliath is Amazon’: after 100 years, Barnes & Noble wants to go back to its indie roots
16 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this installment of our Centennial Series on companies that are over 100 years old, we are talking to Barnes & Noble CEO James Daunt. The last few ...
Why Spotify wants to look like TikTok, with co-president Gustav Söderström
14 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Gustav Söderström has worked at Spotify for a long time; his first big project was leading the launch of its mobile app back in 2009. That makes him...
Can Xerox reinvent itself for another 100 years?
09 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Intro: Steve Bandrowczak, the CEO of Xerox, an iconic company that got started all the way back in 1906 as a manufacturer of photo paper and is, of co...
How Reddit is getting simpler — and dealing with TikTok, with chief product officer Pali Bhat
07 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Pali Bhat joined Reddit from Google about a year ago — he’s actually Reddit’s first-ever chief product officer, which is pretty surprising consi...
Podcasting? Radio? It’s all one big opportunity for iHeartMedia digital CEO Conal Byrne
28 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We taped this episode live at Hot Pod Summit. That’s our conference for the podcast industry. We have a whole newsletter for podcasters. It’s call...
Erase browser history: can AI reset the browser battle?
14 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Hello and welcome to Decoder. I’m Nilay Patel, editor in chief of The Verge, and Decoder is my show about big ideas, and other problems. Today, I...
Microsoft thinks AI can beat Google at search — CEO Satya Nadella explains why
08 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
I’m coming to you from Microsoft’s campus in Redmond, where just a few hours ago, Microsoft announced that the next version of the Bing search eng...
How HBO’s creatives survived corporate chaos
07 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
HBO started as an experiment. It was a way to get people to switch from getting TV over broadcast antennas to cable by offering events you’d otherwi...
Inside the global battle over chip manufacturing
31 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A few weeks ago, President Biden was in the Netherlands, where he asked the Dutch government to restrict export from a company called ASML to China. A...
Taylor Swift and the music industry's next $20
17 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
I have this theory that music is usually about five years ahead of the rest of media in terms of its relationship to tech—whether that’s new forma...
Breaking free from big tech and big content with authors Cory Doctorow and Rebecca Giblin
10 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Last year I spoke with Cory Doctorow and Rebecca Giblin about their new book, Chokepoint Capitalism. It’s a book about artists and technology and pl...
‘We might be wrong, but we’re not confused’: how Tomer Cohen, chief product officer at LinkedIn, figures out what works best
20 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Tomer Cohen is the chief product officer at LinkedIn, and actually, I talked to Tomer twice. Here’s a little secret about Decoder: we do the intervi...
How to buy a social network, with Tumblr CEO Matt Mullenweg
13 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We have to talk about Twitter, right? Elon Musk bought it. He’s making all these changes, and he’s realizing that content moderation decisions are...
Disney’s CEO drama explained, with Julia Alexander
06 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Today, we need to talk about Bob. Two Bobs, actually: Bob Iger, the former and now current CEO of Disney, and Bob Chapek, the man Iger handpicked as h...
How Bose compete with AirPods — and why it’s in more cars than ever, with CEO Lila Snyder
29 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Bose is one of the most recognizable audio brands in the world: it was famous for the Wave radio in the 80s, it invented noise cancellation, you can s...
On with Kara Swisher: Can Chris Licht Turn CNN Around?
22 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Chris Licht faces an uphill battle at CNN. He got the CEO gig in the midst of a prickly merger between Warner Bros. and Discovery and right after the ...
Phil Spencer really wants you to know that native Call of Duty will stay on PlayStation
15 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Phil Spencer, CEO of Microsoft Gaming, is in charge of Xbox and all the game studios that Microsoft has acquired over the years. Phil came to talk to ...
Why Figma is selling to Adobe for $20 billion, with CEO Dylan Field
08 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dylan Field is the co-founder and CEO of Figma, which makes a very popular design tool that allows designers and their collaborators to all work toget...
The mystery of Biden’s deadlocked FCC
03 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is currently short a commissioner, and the Biden Administration and Senate Democrats just can't seem to ge...
Why Amazon VP Steve Boom just made the entire music catalog free with Prime
01 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
I love covering the music industry, but over the past 10 years I’ve found that it’s one of the most challenging things to make accessible to a wid...
Never pay the ransom — a cybersecurity CEO explains why
27 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Steve Cagle is the CEO of Clearwater Compliance, which is a cybersecurity firm focused on the healthcare industry. Basically, they lock down hospital ...
The people who make your apps go to Stack Overflow for answers – here's how it works
25 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Today I'm talking to Prashanth Chandrasekar the CEO of Stack Overflow – a highly specialized kind of social network, with a really unique business ...
Why Signal won’t compromise on encryption, with president Meredith Whittaker
18 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Meredith Whittaker is the president of Signal, the popular messaging app that offers encrypted communication. You might recognize Meredith’s name fr...
Mark Zuckerberg on the Quest Pro, future of the metaverse, and more
11 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 realit...
Pat Gelsinger came back to turn Intel around – here’s how it’s going
04 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Today I'm talking to Pat Gelsinger, the CEO of Intel. I’ve been excited to have this conversation for a very long time – ever since Pat took over ...
How Arm conquered the chip market without making a single chip, with CEO Rene Haas
27 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
One of the more interesting quirks of the modern tech world is that there’s a really important company at the center of it all that doesn’t make a...
Can software simplify the supply chain? Ryan Petersen thinks so
20 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Everyone knows what YouTube is. Few know how it really works.
13 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 YouTu...
Rewind: How big companies kill ideas — and how to fight back, with Tony Fadell
06 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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-f...
How the head of Facebook plans to compete with TikTok and win back Gen Z
30 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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. ...
Advertising is everywhere. Wieden+Kennedy CEO Neal Arthur explains how it works
23 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
How Selena Gomez's Rare Beauty goes viral, with CMO Katie Welch
16 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Katie Welch is the Chief Marketing Officer of Rare Beauty — the beauty products company founded by superstar musician and actress Selena Gomez. Rar...
The risky new way of building mobile broadband networks
09 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 t...
Why Hank Green can’t quit YouTube for TikTok
02 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 progr...
Rent the Runway CEO Jennifer Hyman thinks clothing rental is inflation-proof
26 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 a...
Is the metaverse going to suck? A conversation with Matthew Ball
19 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 compan...
Land of the Giants: Facebook gets a facelift
14 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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...
How arson led to a culture reboot at Traeger, with CEO Jeremy Andrus
04 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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...
TSA’s chief innovation officer on surveillance, security lines, and surrendering to PreCheck
29 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
How Mercedes-Benz CEO Ola Källenius is refocusing for an electric future
21 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 peri...
How fandom built the internet as we know it, with Kaitlyn Tiffany
14 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 str...
What unions could mean for Apple with Zoe Schiffer
06 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 compani...
How Ukraine’s wide use of cryptocurrency is playing out during the war
24 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Michael is president of the Blockchain Association of Ukraine and founder of the Kuna Exchange, which lets people buy cryptocurrency and swap between ...
The videos that don’t work on YouTube and the future of the creator business, with Nebula CEO Dave Wiskus
17 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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’...
Vergecast: Google CEO Sundar Pichai on Google I/O 2022
13 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 produ...
UiPath CEO Daniel Dines thinks automation can fight the great resignation
10 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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...
How big companies kill ideas — and how to fight back, with Tony Fadell
03 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 hom...
The executive director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation on government surveillance, Elon Musk, and free speech
26 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 th...
A former Foxconn executive tries to explain what went wrong in Wisconsin
19 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 d...
Chris Dixon thinks web3 is the future of the internet. Is it?
12 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Chris Dixon leads crypto investing at the storied Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, or a16z. He’s responsible for leading fu...
Is streaming just becoming cable again? Julia Alexander thinks so
05 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Steve Aoki on why he’s a ‘crypto believer’
29 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 t...
How Robinhood is building the future of investing, with chief product officer Aparna Chennapragada
22 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Aparna Chennapragada is the chief product officer at Robinhood, the popular stock and crypto trading app. And we have some news to discuss: Robinhood ...
How the EU is fighting tech giants with Margrethe Vestager
17 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Margrethe Vestager is one of the driving forces behind tech regulation worldwide. Appointed as the European Commission’s Commissioner of Competition...
How WordPress and Tumblr are keeping the internet weird, with Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg
15 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Matt Mullenweg is the CEO of Automattic, the company that owns WordPress.com, which he co-founded, and Tumblr, the irrepressible social network it acq...
The future of computers is only $4 away, with Raspberry Pi CEO Eben Upton
08 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Today I’m talking to Eben Upton, the CEO of Raspberry Pi, a fascinating company that makes beloved tiny hackable computers that are extremely inexpe...
Inside Sonos' decision to sue Google with CEO Patrick Spence and CLO Eddie Lazarus
01 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 t...
Can the law keep up with crypto? With professor Tonya Evans
22 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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...
What an NFL coaching scandal can teach tech about diversity
15 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 c...
News with a Capital B: CEO Lauren Williams on why we need news for and by Black people
08 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 Jan...
The business of finding a better job, with Career Karma CEO Ruben Harris
01 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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-dri...
7 CEOs and one secretary of Transportation on the future of cars
25 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 mana...
Can CEO Herbert Diess reinvent Volkswagen with EVs and software?
18 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Links Dieselgate coverage on The Verge VW vows to build massive electric car charging network across US Electrify America announces doubling of chargi...
Almost every smartphone has a Qualcomm chip inside. Where does CEO Cristiano Amon go from here?
11 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 — e...
Pete Buttigieg is racing to keep up with self-driving cars
06 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this special, Thursday episode of Decoder, Andrew Hawkins spoke with secretary of transportation Pete Butigieg ahead of his speech at CES 2022. 202...
How Logitech bet big on work from home
21 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Logitech is one of those ubiquitous companies — it’s been around since 1981, selling all kinds of important things that connect to computers of al...
Can we regulate social media without breaking the First Amendment?
16 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
So today I’m talking to Jameel Jaffer, executive director of the The Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, about one of the harde...
The metaverse is already here — and it’s full of Pokemon, says Niantic CEO John Hanke
14 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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...
From a meme to $47 million: ConstitutionDAO, crypto, and the future of crowdfunding
07 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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...
How an Excel TikToker manifested her way to making six figures a day
30 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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’...
Why the future of work is the future of travel, with Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky
16 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky prides himself on thinking very differently than other CEOs, and his answers to the Decoder questions about how he structures ...
Why charging phones is such a complex business, with Anker CEO Steven Yang
09 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 n...
The secrets of the first real smartphone, with Dieter Bohn
04 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 documen...