Decoder with Nilay Patel

The Verge

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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Jul 6, 2021 · 34 min
Land of the Giants: Delivery Wars
Land of the Giants is a podcast that explores how the biggest tech companies rose to power, and what they're doing with that power.
Jun 29, 2021 · 1 hr 15 min
Juul and the business of addiction, with Lauren Etter
Juul became a sensation — and a sensationally dramatic story. Lauren Etter, author of The Devil's Playbook: Big Tobacco, JUUL, and the Addiction of a New Generation, joins us to explain how a tech startup founded in a Stanford design studio to disrupt the smoking industry upended years of tobacco regulation in the United States, got a new generation of teenagers addicted to nicotine after years of declining teen smoking rates, and eventually found itself valued at 38 billion. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jun 25, 2021 · 36 min
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on the business of Windows
Nilay Patel talks with Satya Nadella, the CEO and chairman of Microsoft.
Jun 22, 2021 · 1 hr 3 min
Patreon CEO Jack Conte on why creators can’t depend on platforms
Nilay Patel talks with Jack Conte, co-founder and CEO of Patreon.
Jun 15, 2021 · 1 hr 2 min
John Deere CTO Jahmy Hindman on farming, data, and fixing the tractors of the future
Nilay Patel talks with Jahmy Hindman, chief technology office at John Deere, the world’s biggest manufacturer of farming machinery.
Jun 8, 2021 · 1 hr 2 min
The next generation of startups is remote, with Y Combinator's Michael Siebel
Nilay Patel talks with Y Combinator's managing director Michael Siebel.
Jun 1, 2021 · 1 hr 3 min
Why Spotify’s chief legal officer called Apple a “ruthless bully”
Nilay Patel talks with Horacio Gutierrez, head of global affairs and chief legal officer of Spotify.
May 25, 2021 · 1 hr
How to build everything, with Flex CEO Revathi Advaithi
Flex is the third largest electronics manufacturing company in the world.
May 20, 2021 · 45 min
Ford CEO Jim Farley on building the electric F-150 — and reinventing Ford
CEO of Ford Motor Company Jim Farley discusses Ford’s second big push into consumer EVs with the F-150 Lightning.
May 11, 2021 · 55 min
Facebook’s Oversight Board has upheld the Trump ban. What’s next?
Nilay Patel talks with Kate Klonick, a law professor at St John's University Law School, and one of the foremost chroniclers of Facebook’s moderation efforts.
May 4, 2021 · 59 min
How Shopify’s network of small businesses can take on Amazon
Nilay Patel talks with Harley Finkelstein, President of Shopify.
Apr 27, 2021 · 47 min
Senator Amy Klobuchar takes on Apple with antitrust law
Senator Amy Klobuchar sits down with host Nilay Patel to discuss her new book Antitrust: Taking on Monopoly Power from the Gilded Age to the Digital Age
Apr 20, 2021 · 1 hr 1 min
How Anjali Sud stopped worrying about YouTube and reinvented Vimeo
Nilay Patel talks with Anjali Sud, the CEO of Vimeo.
Apr 13, 2021 · 58 min
Is VR the next frontier in fitness?
Nilay Patel talks with Chris Milk, founder and CEO of Within, which makes the VR fitness app Supernatural.
Apr 6, 2021 · 1 hr 18 min
Is there a future for Bitcoin? An investor and a skeptic make their case
Nilay Patel talks with a bitcoin enthusiast, Nic Carter, and a bitcoin skeptic, Prof. Steve Hanke, to get both sides of the bitcoin debate.
Mar 31, 2021 · 48 min
Facebook's VP of Global Affairs doesn’t think the platform is polarizing
Platformer editor and Verge contributing editor Casey Newton interviews Facebook's VP of Global Affairs Nick Clegg
Mar 30, 2021 · 1 hr 1 min
Poshmark’s Tracy Sun on stitching e-commerce with social media
Nilay Patel talks with Tracy Sun, the co-founder and SVP of new markets at Poshmark, a fashion resale company that just went public earlier this year while riding the huge wave of e-commerce growth during the pandemic. Tracy has to manage regular e-commerce issues, like shipping logistics and customer service, as well as influencer economy problems, like burnout and the incessant need to grow follower counts — not to mention the universe of problems that comes with selling fashion, like dealing with fashion labels and brands. But if Poshmark can get it all right, Tracy thinks community is the future of retail. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mar 23, 2021 · 1 hr 2 min
The robots are coming for your office, with NYT’s Kevin Roose
Nilay Patel sits down with New York Times tech columnist Kevin Roose to discuss the impact of automation on our future.
Mar 16, 2021 · 1 hr 6 min
Australia vs Facebook — and how regulation is splintering the internet, with Atlassian CEO Scott Farquhar
Nilay Patel talks with CEO of Atlassian Scott Farquhar about Australia's Media Bargaining Code and how it will work in the country now that it’s passed.
Mar 9, 2021 · 1 hr 13 min
How Twitter is building its future, with Kayvon Beykpour
Nilay Patel talks with Twitter’s Head of Consumer Product, Keyvon Beykpour

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