Decoder - The Verge

Decoder is a new show from The Verge about big ideas – and other problems. Verge Editor-in-Chief Nilay Patel talks to a diverse cast of innovators and policy makers 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. Subscribe here!

Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott thinks Sydney might make a comeback

Microsoft is putting AI Copilots in everything. Will it change the way we use computers?

May 23

Exclusive: Google’s Sundar Pichai talks Search, AI, and dancing with Microsoft

AI is one of the deepest platform shifts ever, says Google’s CEO, and he’s not worried about being first.

May 12

Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky is taking it back to basics

Airbnb is revamping its Rooms feature while eyeing AI and betting on work from anywhere.

May 9

What’s after the social media era in news?

Former BuzzFeed News editor-in-chief Ben Smith on what’s next — and his new book, Traffic.

May 2

Bitcoin is still the future of payments, says Lightspark CEO David Marcus

Apr 25

BrightDrop isn’t just selling electric vans — it’s redesigning delivery

CEO Travis Katz is running a sustainable delivery startup from within a century-old car company.

Apr 18

Is Substack Notes a ‘Twitter clone’? We asked CEO Chris Best

Apr 13

Watching Silicon Valley Bank melt down from the front row, with Brex CEO Henrique Dubugras

Everybody hates Concur. Brex wants to replace it.

Apr 4

The surprisingly complex business of toys, with Hasbro CEO Chris Cocks

Mar 31

Can Mastodon seize the moment from Twitter?

CEO Eugen Rochko on running — and growing — a decentralized social network.

Mar 28

How to play the long game, with New York Times CEO Meredith Kopit Levien

Can Wordle, The Athletic, and NYT Cooking bring the Times bundle to all of America?

Mar 23

Taylor Swift vs. Ronald Reagan: the Ticketmaster story

How a president’s ghost kept fans from getting Taylor Swift tickets.

Mar 21

‘The Goliath is Amazon’: after 100 years, Barnes & Noble wants to go back to its indie roots

CEO James Daunt explains how Barnes & Noble is different than Amazon.

Mar 16

Why Spotify wants to look like TikTok, with co-president Gustav Söderström

Mar 14

Can Xerox reinvent itself for another 100 years?

CEO Steve Bandrowczak thinks the office printer is where the workplace revolution begins.

Mar 9

How Reddit is getting simpler — and dealing with TikTok, with chief product officer Pali Bhat

Mar 7

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Mozilla thinks Mastodon could be the next HTTP.

Here’s Mozilla CEO Mitchell Baker on Decoder, talking about how she wants Mozilla to experiment with Mastodon as the next great consumer internet protocol.

Podcasting? Radio? It’s all one big opportunity for iHeartMedia Digital CEO Conal Byrne

Amid layoffs and a looming recession, folks are concerned about the audio industry. iHeart’s podcast head Conal Byrne is not worried. Here’s why.

Feb 28

Erase browser history: can AI reset the browser battle?

Mozilla chair Mitchell Baker on competing — and cooperating — with Google, Apple, and the rest of Big Tech.

Feb 14

Microsoft thinks AI can beat Google at search — CEO Satya Nadella explains why

AI is coming for your browser, your social media, and your operating system, too.

Feb 8

How HBO’s creatives survived corporate chaos

Authors Felix Gillette and John Koblin explain how your favorite shows kept HBO afloat.

Feb 7

Inside the global battle over chip manufacturing

Jan 31

Taylor Swift and the music industry’s next $20

Jan 17

What is chokepoint capitalism, with authors Cory Doctorow and Rebecca Giblin

Jan 10

‘We might be wrong, but we’re not confused’: how Tomer Cohen, chief product officer at LinkedIn, figures out what works best

We dive into managing the relationships between designers, engineers, and PMs.

Dec 20, 2022

How to buy a social network, with Tumblr CEO Matt Mullenweg

Dec 13, 2022

Disney’s CEO drama explained, with Julia Alexander

Dec 6, 2022

How Bose competes with AirPods — and why it’s in more cars than ever, with CEO Lila Snyder

Nov 29, 2022

Phil Spencer really wants you to know that native Call of Duty will stay on PlayStation

Nov 15, 2022

Why Figma is selling to Adobe for $20 billion, with CEO Dylan Field

Nov 8, 2022

The mystery of Biden’s deadlocked FCC

How often do the parent companies of Fox News and MSNBC team up?

Nov 3, 2022

Why Amazon VP Steve Boom just made the entire music catalog free with Prime

Nov 1, 2022

Cybersecurity Week 2022

Never pay the ransom — a cybersecurity CEO explains why

Oct 27, 2022

The people who make your apps go to Stack Overflow for answers. Here’s how it works.

Stack Overflow is basically Reddit for developers. CEO Prashanth Chandrasekar explains how the company moderates its content.

Oct 25, 2022

Why Signal won’t compromise on encryption, with president Meredith Whittaker

Oct 18, 2022

Mark Zuckerberg on the Quest Pro, building the metaverse, and more

and Nilay Patel

Oct 11, 2022

Pat Gelsinger came back to turn Intel around — here’s how it’s going

Oct 4, 2022

How Arm conquered the chip market without making a single chip, with CEO Rene Haas

Sep 27, 2022

Can software simplify the supply chain? Ryan Petersen thinks so

Sep 20, 2022

Everyone knows what YouTube is — few know how it really works

Sep 13, 2022

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