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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Lydia Polgreen
Recode Decode: HuffPost editor in chief Lydia Polgreen (Live at Code Media 2018) · Feb 2018

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Maggie Haberman
Recode Decode: Maggie Haberman · 3 episodes

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Megan Greenwell
Rewind: How private equity kills companies and communities · 2 episodes

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Michael Barbaro
Recode Decode: Michael Barbaro, host of the New York Times podcast The Daily (Live) · Jun 2018

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Mike Cannon-Brookes
Recode Decode: Mike Cannon-Brookes, co-CEO, Atlassian · Aug 2016

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Nancy Jo Sales
Recode Decode: 'Swiped' director Nancy Jo Sales · Sep 2018

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Neil Blumenthal

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Nikole Hannah-Jones
Recode Decode: Nikole Hannah-Jones · Apr 2020

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Rebecca Traister
Recode Decode: 'Good and Mad' author Rebecca Traister · Oct 2018

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Scott Farquhar
Australia vs Facebook — and how regulation is splintering the internet, with Atlassian CEO Scott Farquhar · Mar 2021

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Steven Levy
Recode Decode: Steven Levy · Feb 2020

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Taffy Brodesser-Akner
Recode Decode: Writer Taffy Brodesser-Akner · Jul 2019

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Thomas Middleditch

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Tina Brown
Recode Decode: magazine mogul Tina Brown · Nov 2017

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Alexis Ohanian
Recode Decode: Alexis Ohanian · Nov 2019

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Arianna Huffington
Recode Decode: Huffington Post Editor in Chief Arianna Huffington · Oct 2015

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Bruce Friedrich

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Jason Fried
Recode Decode: Jason Fried · 2 episodes

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Michele Gelfand
Recode Decode: Silicon Valley loves to break the rules. Is that a good thing? · Nov 2018

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Preet Bharara
Recode Decode: Preet Bharara · May 2019

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Renee DiResta
Studying online bad behavior was hard. It's going to get harder in Trump 2.0 · Jan 2025

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Susan Wojcicki
Recode Decode: YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki · 3 episodes

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Christiane Amanpour
Recode Decode: CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on sex, #MeToo and North Korea (Live from SXSW) · Mar 2018

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David Baszucki
CEO David Baszucki's mission to make Roblox a billion-player platform · 2 episodes

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Deepak Chopra
Recode Decode: Deepak Chopra · Mar 2020

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Jeanette Winterson
Recode Decode: Jeanette Winterson · Jan 2020

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Jon Lovett

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Kate Moennig

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Laura Wasser
Recode Decode: Attorney Laura Wasser · Jan 2019

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Nancy Pelosi
Recode Decode: Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi · 2 episodes

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Nick Clegg
Facebook's VP of Global Affairs doesn’t think the platform is polarizing · Mar 2021

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Samantha Power
Recode Decode: Samantha Power · Jun 2020

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Sheryl Sandberg
Recode Decode: Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg on techlash and #MeToo (Live) · 2 episodes

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Tim Cook
Recode Decode: Apple CEO Tim Cook · Apr 2018

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Aaron Levie
Recode Decode: Box CEO Aaron Levie · 2 episodes

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Adam Fisher
Recode Decode: 'Valley of Genius' author Adam Fisher · Jul 2018

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Adam Schiff
Recode Decode: Rep. Adam Schiff · Jul 2019

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Aidan Gomez
AI will make money sooner than you think, says Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez · Jun 2024

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Albert Wenger
Recode Decode: Albert Wenger, Union Square Ventures Partner · Jan 2016

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Aparna Chennapragada
How Robinhood is building the future of investing, with chief product officer Aparna Chennapragada · Mar 2022

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