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Decoder with Nilay Patel

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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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  • #439
    Oct 30, 2019 · 1 hr 1 min

    Recode Decode: Ben Horowitz

    Andreessen Horowitz co-founder Ben Horowitz talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about the state of venture capital, diversity in tech, and his new book, "What You Do Is Who You Are: How to Create Your Business Culture."

  • #438
    Oct 28, 2019 · 1 hr 5 min

    Recode Decode: Bill Kristol

    Conservative analyst Bill Kristol talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about the impeachment effort against President Trump, how politics has entered a "crisis of truth" in the era of Fox News and social media, and the steps that should be taken pre-emptively to ensure that the 2020 elections are free and fair.

  • #437
    Oct 25, 2019 · 1 hr 12 min

    Recode Decode: Gary Cohn

    Gary Cohn, the former Director of the National Economic Council and former chief economic adviser to President Trump, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about what he's done since leaving the Trump administration, including a "significant" investment and advisory position he's taken up in a mobile security company called Hoyos Integrity.

  • #436
    Oct 23, 2019 · 58 min

    Recode Decode: Politics and tech onstage

    Recode's Kara Swisher talks to the creators of two new plays that intersect with tech issues: Heidi Schreck, the star and playwright of "What the Constitution Means to Me," and the writer and director of "Right to Be Forgotten" — Sharyn Rothstein and Seema Sueko.

  • #435
    Oct 21, 2019 · 1 hr

    Recode Decode: Ronan Farrow

    Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ronan Farrow talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher about his new book, "Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators."

  • #434
    Oct 18, 2019 · 1 hr 5 min

    Recode Decode: Ken Burns

    Filmmaker Ken Burns talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his latest documentary series "Country Music," in which he explores the history of the genre, its place in the larger American musical landscape, and the powerful universality of "three chords and the truth."

  • #433
    Oct 16, 2019 · 1 hr 2 min

    Recode Decode: The inside story of the Cambridge Analytica scandal

    Cambridge Analytica’s former business development director Brittany Kaiser talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher about her new book, "TARGETED: The Cambridge Analytica Whistleblower's Inside Story of How Big Data, Trump, and Facebook Broke Democracy and How It Can Happen Again."

  • #432
    Oct 14, 2019 · 45 min

    Recode Decode: Rosetta Stone President Matt Hulett

    Matt Hulett, the president of education company Rosetta Stone, talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher about the company’s pivot away from language-learning CDs and into a more advanced and “approachable” mobile app.

  • #430
    Oct 9, 2019 · 1 hr 5 min

    Recode Decode: "Antisocial" author Andrew Marantz

    Andrew Marantz, a staff writer at the New Yorker, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his new book, "Antisocial: Online Extremists, Techno‑Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation."

  • #429
    Oct 7, 2019 · 1 hr 6 min

    Recode Decode: Former HP CEO Carly Fiorina

    Carly Fiorina, the former CEO of HP who ran for the Republican nomination for president in 2016, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about campaigning against Donald Trump, her friendship with Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, and the over-concentration of power among a handful of CEOs in the tech industry.

  • #428
    Oct 4, 2019 · 1 hr 4 min

    Recode Decode: FEC Chair Ellen Weintraub

    Federal Election Commission Chair Ellen Weintraub talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about how the FEC works, how it tries to defend elections from foreign influence, and why the Commission is currently immobilized by a lack of "quorum."

  • #427
    Oct 2, 2019 · 1 hr 6 min

    Recode Decode: Obama's cybersecurity chief Michael Daniel

    President Barack Obama's former cybersecurity coordinator Michael Daniel, now the chief of the nonprofit Cyber Threat Alliance, talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher about the state of US cybersecurity heading into the 2020 elections.

  • #426
    Sep 30, 2019 · 1 hr 7 min

    Recode Decode: FTC Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter

    Rebecca Kelly Slaughter, one of the FTC's two Democratic commissioners, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about the state of antitrust problems in the tech industry, the history of pushback against the FTC for alleged over-enforcement, and whether it is under-enforcing the law today.

  • #425
    Sep 27, 2019 · 1 hr 7 min

    Recode Decode: Senator Mark Warner

    Mark Warner, the senior US Senator from Virginia, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about several interconnected policy issues affecting the 2020 elections, including the security of voter registries, the expectation of social media manipulation by Russia and other hostile foreign powers, and the newly announced impeachment inquiry into President Trump's phone call with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky.

  • #424
    Sep 25, 2019 · 53 min

    Recode Decode: Whistleblower Aid CEO John Tye

    John Napier Tye, the founder and CEO of Whistleblower Aid, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about how his non-profit law firm helps people seeking to legally expose corruption in the government and at private companies.

  • #423
    Sep 23, 2019 · 46 min

    Recode Decode: Hermitage Capital CEO Bill Browder

    Recode's Kara Swisher talks with Hermitage Capital CEO Bill Browder, a hedge fund manager turned human rights activist and his son, Josh Browder, whose company DoNotPay helps consumers fight everything from parking tickets to the Equifax leaks.

  • #421
    Sep 18, 2019 · 1 hr 8 min

    Recode Decode: Blackstone CEO Steve Schwarzman

    Steve Schwarzman, the CEO of the private equity firm The Blackstone Group, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his new book, What It Takes: Lessons in the Pursuit of Excellence.

  • #420
    Sep 16, 2019 · 1 hr 17 min

    Recode Decode: NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio

    Bill de Blasio, the mayor of New York City, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about why he's still running for the Democratic nomination in 2020, the threat of job automation and his proposed "robot tax," and how de Blasio thinks about the future of transit in New York and beyond.

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