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.
Dow Jones CEO Almar Latour on AI, press freedom, and the future of news
64 hours 31 mins; March 10, 2025
Flying is still safe, for now — but the FAA isn’t
40 mins; March 06, 2025
Amazon’s Panos Panay on the long road to Alexa’s AI overhaul
69 hours 41 mins; March 03, 2025
Elon Musk's polarizing ascent in the MAGA movement
35 mins; February 27, 2025
Vimeo CEO Philip Moyer is betting on the human touch — and AI
73 hours 16 mins; February 24, 2025
Why gaming never had its Netflix moment
54 mins; February 20, 2025
The FCC is a now a weapon in Trump’s war on free speech
47 mins; February 13, 2025
Sen. Ron Wyden is here to stop Elon Musk
58 mins; February 10, 2025
Elon Musk's presidency is just getting started
41 mins; February 06, 2025
Bookshop CEO Andy Hunter's crusade to save books from Amazon
66 hours 24 mins; February 03, 2025
DeepSeek, Stargate, and the new AI arms race
29 mins; January 30, 2025
How Ciena keeps the internet online, with CEO Gary Smith
73 hours 25 mins; January 27, 2025
How Meta's MAGA heel turn is a play for global power
50 mins; January 23, 2025
Why CEO Matt Garman is willing to bet AWS on AI
65 hours 30 mins; January 13, 2025
Studying online bad behavior was hard. It's going to get harder in Trump 2.0
57 mins; January 06, 2025
Answering your biggest Decoder questions
53 mins; December 20, 2024
Tech antitrust is about to get really weird
36 mins; December 18, 2024
Arm CEO Rene Haas on the AI chip race, Intel, and what Trump means for tech
41 mins; December 16, 2024
Platforms need the news, but they're killing it
53 mins; December 13, 2024
Why every company wants a podcast now
38 mins; December 11, 2024
Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman says conversational AI is the next web browser
73 hours 5 mins; December 09, 2024
AI is a money pit — here’s why investors don’t mind
33 mins; December 05, 2024
Rewind: Bluesky CEO Jay Graber on the future of federated social media
70 hours 46 mins; December 02, 2024
GoDaddy CEO Aman Bhutani on the enduring power of the website
53 mins; November 25, 2024
Remix: Google Zero is here — now what?
30 mins; November 21, 2024
Will the world end before I can retire?
41 mins; November 18, 2024
How Trump’s second term could be bad for EVs, but great for Tesla
35 mins; November 14, 2024
Why the Grammys need to change, with CEO Harvey Mason Jr.
70 hours 59 mins; November 11, 2024
Return-to-office mandates are more than "backdoor layoffs"
39 mins; November 07, 2024
Why GM ditched CarPlay, with software boss Baris Cetinok
70 hours 35 mins; November 04, 2024
“It’s the First Amendment, stupid”
38 mins; October 31, 2024
Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky on what founder mode really means
71 hours 45 mins; October 28, 2024
The AI arms race to build digital god
42 mins; October 24, 2024
Intuit asked us to delete part of this Decoder episode
56 mins; October 21, 2024
How influencers are changing advertising with Digitas CEO Amy Lanzi
60 hours 50 mins; October 17, 2024
Duolingo CEO Luis Von Ahn wants you addicted to learning
79 hours 55 mins; October 14, 2024
The impossible dream of good workplace software
50 mins; October 10, 2024
Rabbit CEO Jesse Lyu isn't thinking too far ahead
78 hours 55 mins; October 07, 2024
The toxic transformation of Warcraft maker Blizzard
49 mins; October 03, 2024
NBCU's streaming chief isn't worried about you canceling cable
71 hours 34 mins; September 30, 2024
Why Mark Zuckerberg wants to end the smartphone era
66 hours 55 mins; September 25, 2024
Arc creator Josh Miller on why you need a better browser than Chrome
68 hours 20 mins; September 23, 2024
Why Google is back in court for another monopoly showdown
31 mins; September 19, 2024
How Philips CEO Roy Jakobs is turning the company around after major recall
67 hours 12 mins; September 16, 2024
Why AI image editing isn’t “just like Photoshop”
41 mins; September 12, 2024
Anthropic’s Mike Krieger wants to build AI products that are worth the hype
79 hours 19 mins; September 09, 2024
How the Wayback Machine is fighting linkrot
40 mins; September 05, 2024
The AI election deepfakes have arrived
41 mins; August 29, 2024
Disney Is a Tech Company?
38 mins; August 26, 2024
How The Onion is saving itself from the digital media death spiral
57 mins; August 22, 2024
GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke says the AI industry needs competition to thrive
76 hours 34 mins; August 19, 2024
What's next for the controversial 'child safety' internet bill
38 mins; August 15, 2024
Replika CEO Eugenia Kuyda says it’s okay if we end up marrying AI chatbots
68 hours 6 mins; August 12, 2024
DOJ antitrust chief is ‘overjoyed’ after Google monopoly verdict
43 mins; August 08, 2024
Booking CEO Glenn Fogel wants you to take out your travel frustrations on AI chatbots
72 hours 57 mins; August 05, 2024
AI has a climate problem — but so does all of tech
32 mins; August 01, 2024
Logitech CEO Hanneke Faber wants your next mouse to last forever
61 hours 26 mins; July 29, 2024
The Supreme Court ruling that could kill net neutrality
38 mins; July 25, 2024
Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe says too many carmakers are copying Tesla
63 hours 48 mins; July 22, 2024
What happened to the metaverse?
44 mins; July 18, 2024
Biden’s top tech advisor on why AI safety is a “today problem”
60 hours 54 mins; July 15, 2024
Why The Atlantic signed a deal with OpenAI
51 mins; July 11, 2024
Canva CEO Melanie Perkins is happy to provide designers alternatives to Adobe
66 hours 29 mins; July 08, 2024
How Big Green Egg CEO Dan Gertsacov is getting zoomers into the cult of kamado cooking
76 hours 0 mins; July 01, 2024
The rise of shadow lobbying and its influence on decades of US policy
45 mins; June 27, 2024
Netflix co-CEO Greg Peters on the streamer's shifting culture and where ads, AI, and games fit in
66 hours 45 mins; June 24, 2024
Inside the players and politics of the AI industry
45 mins; June 20, 2024
Why Tubi CEO Anjali Sud thinks free TV can win again
67 hours 21 mins; June 17, 2024
Remix: How private equity took over everything
39 mins; June 13, 2024
AI will make money sooner than you think, says Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez
70 hours 21 mins; June 10, 2024
Why the video game industry is such a mess
37 mins; June 06, 2024
Zoom CEO Eric Yuan wants AI clones in meetings
61 hours 22 mins; June 03, 2024
Google Zero is here. Now what?
27 mins; May 30, 2024
How the FBI built its own smartphone company to hack the criminal underworld
42 mins; May 23, 2024
Google's Sundar Pichai on AI-powered search and the future of the web
44 mins; May 20, 2024
TikTok's big bet to fight the ban bill
46 mins; May 16, 2024
Why Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen is confident we'll all adapt to AI
60 hours 45 mins; May 13, 2024
Why the tech industry can’t crack the smart home
40 mins; May 09, 2024
Polestar CEO Thomas Ingenlath on life after Volvo and weathering the EV slowdown
64 hours 10 mins; May 06, 2024
Understanding the chaos at Tesla
39 mins; May 02, 2024
Mercedes-Benz CEO Ola Källenius explains why EVs are still the future — but Apple's next-gen CarPlay isn't
68 hours 24 mins; April 29, 2024
Why the TikTok ban won't solve the US's online privacy problems
47 mins; April 25, 2024
Discord CEO Jason Citron makes the case for a smaller, more private internet
58 mins; April 22, 2024
Disney just fought off a shareholder revolt — but the clock’s still ticking
42 mins; April 18, 2024
Dropbox CEO Drew Houston wants you to embrace AI and remote work
64 hours 56 mins; April 15, 2024
The rise and fall of Vice Media
43 mins; April 11, 2024
Why Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince is the internet’s unlikely defender
79 hours 20 mins; April 08, 2024
Why Nintendo sued a Switch emulator out of existence
43 mins; April 04, 2024
Mailchimp CEO Rania Succar on culture, acquisitions, and how big 'small business' really is
66 hours 13 mins; April 01, 2024
Can you patent a pizza?
52 mins; March 28, 2024
Federation is the future of social media, says Bluesky CEO Jay Graber
70 hours 48 mins; March 25, 2024
How Europe’s Digital Markets Act is reshaping Big Tech
32 mins; March 21, 2024
Figma CEO Dylan Field is optimistic about the future and AI
53 mins; March 18, 2024
Why Google Search feels like it’s gotten worse
39 mins; March 14, 2024
How to save culture from the algorithms, with Filterworld author Kyle Chayka
67 hours 39 mins; March 11, 2024
Why people are falling in love with AI chatbots
40 mins; March 07, 2024
Guest host Hank Green makes Nilay Patel explain why websites have a future
63 hours 23 mins; March 04, 2024
AI deepfakes are cheap, easy, and coming for the 2024 election
41 mins; February 29, 2024
Crunchyroll President Rahul Purini on how anime took over the world