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Podcast: Decoder with Nilay Patel
Episode: Why charging phones is such a complex business, with Anker CEO Steven Yang
Description: 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 new tech like gallium nitride, building a direct-to-consumer business on Amazon, and the complexity of managing the Amazon relationship, regulatory issues, platform fees — you name it. And all from a company that started making phone chargers. Anker is endlessly fascinating.Links:Anker CEO Steven Yang is all in on USB-CAmazon-Native Brand Anker Goes PublicEU proposes mandatory USB-C on all devices, including iP...