Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
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 ...
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 Open...
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 ...
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 sho...
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, Airbn...
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-chi...
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 De...
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 a...
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 ...
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 co...
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...
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 competi...
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 ...
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 i...
‘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 talkin...
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 lau...
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 1...
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...
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 h...
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 sho...
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 anno...
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 an...
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 rest...
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...
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....
‘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’...
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’...
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 Di...
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 ...
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 betwe...
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 ...
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 d...
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 Adminis...
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 m...
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 health...
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...
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 commu...
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 conversatio...
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 ...
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 com...
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 differ...
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 YouT...
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 develop...
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 Hea...
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 atte...
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 b...
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 helpe...
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 himsel...
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 ...
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...
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. Lon...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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 n...
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...
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, whic...
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 t...
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 S...
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 automat...
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 ...
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 i...
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 ...
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 Ho...
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 ...
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, a...
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...
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 E...
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, a...
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...
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 Offic...
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 ...
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....
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 n...
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’...
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 ...
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...
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...
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 ...
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 o...
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 Instit...
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 ...
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 M...
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...
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...
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 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 executiv...
Meta’s Andrew Bosworth on moving Facebook to the metaverse
01 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Facebook announced a major corporate rebrand by changing its company name to Meta. The new name is m...
Adobe's Scott Belsky on how NFTs will change creativity
26 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Adobe is one of those companies that I don’t think we pay enough attention to — it’s been arou...
How Jeep is going electric, with CEO Christian Meunier
19 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week we are talking to Jeep CEO Christian Meunier – and there’s a lot to talk about. Jeep j...
How Amazon runs Alexa, with Dave Limp
12 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
My guest today is Dave Limp, the senior vice president of devices and services at Amazon – or, mor...
Land of the Giants: This Changes Everything
07 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In Land of the Giants: The Apple Revolution, Recode’s Peter Kafka explores the company that cha...
Waymo co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana on how to get self-driving taxis to the mall
05 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Waymo is working on self-driving taxis. Which is a huge deal. Ridesharing apps like Uber and Lyft h...
John Carreyrou’s final chapter on the Theranos scandal
28 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Nilay Patel talks to John Carreyrou about his reporting on Theranos from his Wall Street Journal art...
How F*ck You Pay Me is empowering creators
21 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We talk a lot about the creator economy here on Decoder and one thing we’ve learned from all those...
It's brutal out here: Olivia Rodrigo and how the music business makes songwriters fight over credits
15 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week on Decoder we are doing something a little different. We're talking with Charlie Harding, ...
How Slack changed Apple’s employee culture, with Zoë Schiffer
07 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Apple has had a lot going on lately: we did a whole episode about the controversial child protection...
Everything you need to know about the global chip shortage
31 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Since the beginning of the pandemic, the demand for microchips has far exceeded supply, causing prob...
The quirks and features of YouTube car reviews with Doug DeMuro
24 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Nilay Patel talks with Doug DeMuro, who reviews cars on YouTube for almost 10 years. Nilay and Doug ...
Meet the self-driving brains working with Ford and Volkswagen
17 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today I'm talking to Bryan Salesky, the cofounder and CEO of Argo AI, a startup that's trying to bui...