Decoder with Nilay Patel

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

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Every guest on Decoder with Nilay Patel

827 guests, ranked by how many people never want them back.

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Lauren Groh-Wargo

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Lauren Leffer
Capitalism vs. the bird flu · Mar 2025

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Lauren Underwood
Recode Decode: Rep. Lauren Underwood · Aug 2019

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Lauren Williams
News with a Capital B: CEO Lauren Williams on why we need news for and by Black people · Feb 2022

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Laurene Powell Jobs
Recode Decode: Laurene Powell Jobs · Mar 2019

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Leah Nylen
Tech antitrust is about to get really weird · Dec 2024

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Leanne Pittsford

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Leisha Hailey

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Leslie Berlin
Recode Decode: Leslie Berlin, historian, Stanford University · Dec 2017

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Linda McMahon
Recode Decode: Linda McMahon, U.S. Small Business Administrator (Live at Code 2018) · Jun 2018

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Linda Yaccarino
X CEO Linda Yaccarino defends Elon Musk, and herself, at Code 2023 · Sep 2023

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Lisa Dickey
Recode Decode: Lisa Dickey, author, 'Bears in the Streets' · Jul 2017

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Lisa Su
AMD CEO Lisa Su on the AI revolution · Sep 2023

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Lloyd Minor
Recode Decode: Dr. Lloyd Minor · Mar 2020

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Lora Haddock
Recode Decode: Lora Haddock · Feb 2019

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Loren Grush
More than Sally Ride: Loren Grush explains how NASA’s first women astronauts changed space · Sep 2023

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Louie Swisher

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Louis Hyman
Recode Decode: 'Temp' author Louis Hyman · Aug 2018

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Lucas Shaw
What’s next for Netflix and Paramount in the Warner Bros. battle · Dec 2025

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Lucretia Carney
Recode Decode: The Swisher family · Jan 2020

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Luther Lowe
Recode Decode: Luther Lowe, Yelp; Beth Wilkinson, Wilkinson Walsh Eskovitz · Nov 2017

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Makan Delrahim
Recode Decode: U.S. Justice Department antitrust lawyer Makan Delrahim · Sep 2018

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Mandy Ginsberg
Recode Decode: Tinder parent company Match Group prepares for battle with Facebook · Jul 2018

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Manish Chandra

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Margaret O'Mara
Recode Decode: Margaret O'Mara · Dec 2019

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Margrethe Vestager
How the EU is fighting tech giants with Margrethe Vestager · 4 episodes

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Mark Barrocas
How SharkNinja took over the home · Jul 2025

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Mark Ein
Recode Decode: Can an alt-weekly newspaper survive in 2018? · Feb 2018

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Mark Graham
How the Wayback Machine is fighting linkrot · Sep 2024

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Mark Gurman

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Mark Hurd
Recode Decode: Mark Hurd, co-CEO, Oracle · Jun 2017

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Mark Leibovich
Recode Decode: 'Big Game' author Mark Leibovich · Sep 2018

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Mark Lemley
Recode Decode: Mark Lemley · Mar 2020

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Mark Penn
Recode Decode: How 'Microtrends' affect everything, from marriage to Trump · May 2018

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Mark Surman
Recode Decode: Mark Surman · Feb 2020

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Mark Warner
Recode Decode: Senator Mark Warner · 2 episodes

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Marques Brownlee
Marques Brownlee on how to scale MKBHD while being the face of the YouTube brand · Jan 2021

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Marty Baron
How Donald Trump and Elon Musk killed Twitter, with Marty Baron and Zoe Schiffer · Dec 2023

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Mary Barra
Why GM will give you Gemini — but not CarPlay · Oct 2025

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Matt Bromberg
How Unity CEO Matt Bromberg stopped the ‘war’ against its customers · Mar 2025

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