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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Tristan Harris
Recode Decode: Tristan Harris · 2 episodes

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Bill Gurley
Recode Decode: Benchmark partner Bill Gurley · Sep 2016

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Ken Burns
Recode Decode: Ken Burns · Oct 2019

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Satya Nadella
Microsoft thinks AI can beat Google at search — CEO Satya Nadella explains why · 2 episodes

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Mark Zuckerberg
Why Mark Zuckerberg wants to end the smartphone era · 4 episodes

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Patrick Collison
Recode Decode: Patrick Collison, CEO, Stripe · May 2017

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Walter Isaacson
Recode Decode: Walter Isaacson, author, 'Leonardo da Vinci' · Oct 2017

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Chamath Palihapitiya
Recode Decode: Chamath Palihapitiya · 4 episodes

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Tony Fadell
Rewind: How big companies kill ideas — and how to fight back, with Tony Fadell · 2 episodes

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Cristiano Amon
Almost every smartphone has a Qualcomm chip inside. Where does CEO Cristiano Amon go from here? · Jan 2022

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Ray Dalio
Recode Decode: Ray Dalio, author, 'Principles: Life and Work' · Nov 2017

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Kevin Systrom
Recode Decode: Kevin Systrom · 3 episodes

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Boris Sofman
Recode Decode: Boris Sofman, CEO, Anki · May 2017

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Niall Ferguson
Recode Decode: Niall Ferguson · Apr 2020

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Jeff Hawkins

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Nic Carter
Is there a future for Bitcoin? An investor and a skeptic make their case · Apr 2021

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Jason Calacanis
Recode Decode: Jason Calacanis · Mar 2020

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Daphne Koller
Recode Decode: Daphne Koller, president, Coursera · Jun 2016

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Esther Perel
Recode Decode: Therapist Esther Perel · Mar 2018

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Adam Grant
Recode Decode: Adam Grant · 2 episodes

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Gary Vaynerchuk
Gary Vaynerchuk is ‘petrified’ of Slack · 2 episodes

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Hannah Ritchie
What the climate story gets wrong · Nov 2025

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Peter Diamandis
Recode Decode: Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler · Feb 2020

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Steven Kotler

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Alex Kantrowitz
Recode Decode: Alex Kantrowitz · May 2020

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Roger McNamee
Recode Decode: "Zucked" author Roger McNamee · Feb 2019

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Maria Shriver
Recode Decode: Maria Shriver and Christina Schwarzenegger discuss 'Take Your Pills' · Mar 2018

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Jared Leto
Recode Decode: Jared Leto · Oct 2017

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Jon Favreau
Recode Decode: Crooked Media founders: We're podcasting the Trump resistance (Live at SXSW) · 2 episodes

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Natasha Lyonne
Recode Decode: "Russian Doll" star Natasha Lyonne and Netflix content VP Cindy Holland (Live at Code 2019) · Jul 2019

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José Andrés
Recode Decode: José Andrés on feeding Puerto Rico and the 'power of food' (Live) · May 2018

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Megan Rapinoe
Recode Decode: Megan Rapinoe · 2 episodes

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James Corden
Recode Decode: 'The Late Late Show' host James Corden · Oct 2016

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Stacey Abrams
Recode Decode: Fair Fight Action founder Stacey Abrams and CEO Lauren Groh-Wargo (Live at Code 2019) · 2 episodes

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David Mandel

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Peter Jackson
Recode Decode: How Peter Jackson’s team made WWI footage look new · Dec 2018

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B.J. Novak
Recode Decode: B.J. Novak and Dev Flaherty, The List App Co-Founders · Nov 2015

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Franklin Leonard
Recode Decode: Franklin Leonard · Jan 2020

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Heidi Schreck
Recode Decode: Politics and tech onstage · Oct 2019

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Andrew Marantz
Recode Decode: "Antisocial" author Andrew Marantz · Oct 2019

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