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.
How AI copyright lawsuits could make the whole industry go extinct
40 mins; February 15, 2024
DOJ’s Jonathan Kanter says the antitrust fight against Big Tech is just beginning
34 mins; February 12, 2024
Why EV adoption in the US has hit a roadblock
42 mins; February 08, 2024
Platformer’s Casey Newton on surviving the great media collapse and what comes next
68 hours 47 mins; February 05, 2024
Why Sen. Brian Schatz thinks child safety bills can trump the First Amendment
69 hours 30 mins; January 30, 2024
Rep. Ro Khanna on what it will take for Congress to regulate AI, privacy, and social media
54 mins; January 23, 2024
How Adobe is managing the AI copyright dilemma, with general counsel Dana Rao
85 hours 38 mins; January 09, 2024
How Donald Trump and Elon Musk killed Twitter, with Marty Baron and Zoe Schiffer
39 mins; December 21, 2023
Why Flexport CEO Ryan Petersen took his company back
66 hours 0 mins; December 19, 2023
USDS head Mina Hsiang wants Big Tech’s best minds to help fix the government
64 hours 46 mins; December 12, 2023
IBM's Jerry Chow explains the next phase of quantum computing
55 mins; December 05, 2023
Wix CEO Avishai Abrahami isn’t worried AI will kill the web
71 hours 36 mins; November 28, 2023
Chaos at OpenAI: What happened to Sam Altman, and what's next
69 hours 17 mins; November 20, 2023
Volvo CEO Jim Rowan thinks dropping CarPlay is a mistake
67 hours 11 mins; November 14, 2023
Barack Obama on AI, free speech, and the future of the internet
47 mins; November 07, 2023
AI is on a collision course with the music industry. Reservoir's Golnar Khosrowshahi thinks there’s a way through it
56 mins; October 31, 2023
Harvard professor Lawrence Lessig on why AI and social media are causing a free speech crisis for the internet
54 mins; October 24, 2023
Clearview AI and the end of privacy, with author Kashmir Hill
61 hours 49 mins; October 17, 2023
CEO David Baszucki's mission to make Roblox a billion-player platform
31 mins; October 12, 2023
Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe on ramping up R1T production and competing with the Cybertruck
40 mins; October 10, 2023
Getty Images CEO Craig Peters has a plan to defend photography from AI
34 mins; October 05, 2023
Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott on how AI and art will coexist in the future
44 mins; October 03, 2023
'The Android of agriculture': Monarch Tractor CEO Praveen Penmetsa on the future of farming
28 mins; September 30, 2023
AMD CEO Lisa Su on the AI revolution
35 mins; September 29, 2023
X CEO Linda Yaccarino defends Elon Musk, and herself, at Code 2023
42 mins; September 29, 2023
Mark Zuckerberg on Threads, the future of AI, and Quest 3
71 hours 20 mins; September 27, 2023
After 10 years covering startups, former TechCrunch EIC Matthew Panzarino tells us what's next
51 mins; September 19, 2023
More than Sally Ride: Loren Grush explains how NASA’s first women astronauts changed space
57 mins; September 12, 2023
Biometrics? Bring it on: Why Okta’s Jameeka Green Aaron wants passwords to go away
73 hours 12 mins; August 29, 2023
Fandom runs some of the biggest communities on the web. Can CEO Perkins Miller keep them happy?
70 hours 13 mins; August 22, 2023
Land of the Giants: Tesla vs. The Competition
38 mins; August 15, 2023
There's no AI without the cloud, says AWS CEO Adam Selipsky
69 hours 7 mins; August 08, 2023
Rewind: Can Mastodon seize the moment from Twitter?
81 hours 15 mins; July 25, 2023
Why would anyone make a website in 2023? Squarespace CEO Anthony Casalena has some ideas
63 hours 44 mins; July 18, 2023
Inside Google’s big AI shuffle — and how it plans to stay competitive, with Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis
62 hours 14 mins; July 10, 2023
Why CEO David Baszucki is ready for Roblox to grow up
54 mins; June 27, 2023
Gary Vaynerchuk is ‘petrified’ of Slack
50 mins; June 21, 2023
Private equity bought out your doctor and bankrupted Toys”R”Us. Here’s why that matters.
60 hours 49 mins; June 13, 2023
SiriusXM’s 360 strategy with CEO Jennifer Witz
65 hours 45 mins; June 06, 2023
Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott on AI copilots, disagreeing with OpenAI, and Sydney making a comeback
67 hours 10 mins; May 23, 2023
Recode Media: Inside the AI Gold Rush
50 mins; May 16, 2023
Exclusive: Google’s Sundar Pichai talks Search, AI, and dancing with Microsoft
42 mins; May 12, 2023
I can't make products just for 41 year old tech founders," Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky on taking it back to the basics
64 hours 24 mins; May 09, 2023
The social media age for news is over. Former BuzzFeed News editor Ben Smith on what’s next
71 hours 14 mins; May 02, 2023
Bitcoin is still the future of payments, says Lightspark CEO David Marcus
50 mins; April 25, 2023
Brightdrop isn’t just selling electric vans — it's redesigning delivery
71 hours 10 mins; April 18, 2023
Is Substack Notes a ‘Twitter clone’? We asked CEO Chris Best.
68 hours 1 min; April 13, 2023
Watching Silicon Valley Bank melt down from the front row with Brex CEO Henrique Dubugras
62 hours 51 mins; April 04, 2023
The surprisingly complex business of toys, with Hasbro CEO Chris Cocks
70 hours 34 mins; March 31, 2023
Can Mastodon seize the moment from Twitter?
76 hours 37 mins; March 28, 2023
How to play the long game, with New York Times CEO Meredith Kopit Levien
61 hours 55 mins; March 23, 2023
Taylor Swift vs. Ronald Reagan: The Ticketmaster story
31 mins; March 21, 2023
‘The Goliath is Amazon’: after 100 years, Barnes & Noble wants to go back to its indie roots
63 hours 8 mins; March 16, 2023
Why Spotify wants to look like TikTok, with co-president Gustav Söderström
58 mins; March 14, 2023
Can Xerox reinvent itself for another 100 years?
63 hours 33 mins; March 09, 2023
How Reddit is getting simpler — and dealing with TikTok, with chief product officer Pali Bhat
59 mins; March 07, 2023
Podcasting? Radio? It’s all one big opportunity for iHeartMedia digital CEO Conal Byrne
66 hours 59 mins; February 28, 2023
Erase browser history: can AI reset the browser battle?
67 hours 41 mins; February 14, 2023
Microsoft thinks AI can beat Google at search — CEO Satya Nadella explains why
24 mins; February 07, 2023
How HBO’s creatives survived corporate chaos
66 hours 23 mins; February 07, 2023
Inside the global battle over chip manufacturing
51 mins; January 31, 2023
Taylor Swift and the music industry's next $20
81 hours 33 mins; January 17, 2023
Breaking free from big tech and big content with authors Cory Doctorow and Rebecca Giblin
88 hours 20 mins; January 10, 2023
‘We might be wrong, but we’re not confused’: how Tomer Cohen, chief product officer at LinkedIn, figures out what works best
76 hours 24 mins; December 20, 2022
How to buy a social network, with Tumblr CEO Matt Mullenweg
100 hours 40 mins; December 13, 2022
Disney’s CEO drama explained, with Julia Alexander
60 hours 15 mins; December 06, 2022
How Bose compete with AirPods — and why it’s in more cars than ever, with CEO Lila Snyder
76 hours 52 mins; November 29, 2022
On with Kara Swisher: Can Chris Licht Turn CNN Around?
64 hours 22 mins; November 22, 2022
Phil Spencer really wants you to know that native Call of Duty will stay on PlayStation
63 hours 19 mins; November 15, 2022
Why Figma is selling to Adobe for $20 billion, with CEO Dylan Field
67 hours 15 mins; November 08, 2022
The mystery of Biden’s deadlocked FCC
41 mins; November 03, 2022
Why Amazon VP Steve Boom just made the entire music catalog free with Prime
67 hours 22 mins; November 01, 2022
Never pay the ransom — a cybersecurity CEO explains why
66 hours 11 mins; October 27, 2022
The people who make your apps go to Stack Overflow for answers – here's how it works
66 hours 15 mins; October 25, 2022
Why Signal won’t compromise on encryption, with president Meredith Whittaker
72 hours 31 mins; October 18, 2022
Mark Zuckerberg on the Quest Pro, future of the metaverse, and more
60 hours 50 mins; October 11, 2022
Pat Gelsinger came back to turn Intel around – here’s how it’s going
68 hours 33 mins; October 04, 2022
How Arm conquered the chip market without making a single chip, with CEO Rene Haas
62 hours 44 mins; September 27, 2022
Can software simplify the supply chain? Ryan Petersen thinks so
62 hours 52 mins; September 20, 2022
Everyone knows what YouTube is. Few know how it really works.
64 hours 20 mins; September 13, 2022
Rewind: How big companies kill ideas — and how to fight back, with Tony Fadell
76 hours 29 mins; September 06, 2022
How the head of Facebook plans to compete with TikTok and win back Gen Z
63 hours 6 mins; August 30, 2022
Advertising is everywhere. Wieden+Kennedy CEO Neal Arthur explains how it works
61 hours 22 mins; August 23, 2022
How Selena Gomez's Rare Beauty goes viral, with CMO Katie Welch
61 hours 5 mins; August 16, 2022
The risky new way of building mobile broadband networks
80 hours 4 mins; August 09, 2022
Why Hank Green can’t quit YouTube for TikTok
73 hours 28 mins; August 02, 2022
Rent the Runway CEO Jennifer Hyman thinks clothing rental is inflation-proof
67 hours 21 mins; July 26, 2022
Is the metaverse going to suck? A conversation with Matthew Ball
78 hours 41 mins; July 19, 2022
Land of the Giants: Facebook gets a facelift
28 mins; July 14, 2022
How arson led to a culture reboot at Traeger, with CEO Jeremy Andrus
75 hours 21 mins; July 04, 2022
TSA’s chief innovation officer on surveillance, security lines, and surrendering to PreCheck
70 hours 36 mins; June 29, 2022
How Mercedes-Benz CEO Ola Källenius is refocusing for an electric future
65 hours 31 mins; June 21, 2022
How fandom built the internet as we know it, with Kaitlyn Tiffany
65 hours 11 mins; June 14, 2022
What unions could mean for Apple with Zoe Schiffer
65 hours 22 mins; June 06, 2022
How Ukraine’s wide use of cryptocurrency is playing out during the war
67 hours 50 mins; May 24, 2022
The videos that don’t work on YouTube and the future of the creator business, with Nebula CEO Dave Wiskus
73 hours 33 mins; May 17, 2022
Vergecast: Google CEO Sundar Pichai on Google I/O 2022
32 mins; May 13, 2022
UiPath CEO Daniel Dines thinks automation can fight the great resignation
68 hours 7 mins; May 10, 2022
How big companies kill ideas — and how to fight back, with Tony Fadell
75 hours 29 mins; May 03, 2022
The executive director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation on government surveillance, Elon Musk, and free speech