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

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Josh Browder

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Katrina Lake
Recode Decode: Stitch Fix CEO Katrina Lake · 2 episodes

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Kayvon Beykpour
How Twitter is building its future, with Kayvon Beykpour · Mar 2021

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Keith Rabois
Recode Decode: Keith Rabois · 2 episodes

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Kirsten Green
Recode Decode: Kirsten Green · Jan 2020

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Luis von Ahn
Duolingo CEO Luis Von Ahn wants you addicted to learning · Oct 2024

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Maha Ibrahim
Recode Decode: Maha Ibrahim, general partner, Canaan · Sep 2017

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Marc Benioff
Recode Decode: Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff · Nov 2018

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Marc Lore
Recode Decode: Marc Lore, Jet.com CEO · Dec 2015

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Maria Ressa
Recode Decode: How disinformation poisoned a ‘Facebook nation’ · Nov 2018

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Marianne Williamson
Recode Decode: 2020 presidential candidate Marianne Williamson · Sep 2019

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Mark Suster
Recode Decode: Mark Suster, managing partner, Upfront Ventures · Apr 2018

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Matt Walsh

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Matthew Prince
Why Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince is the internet’s unlikely defender · Apr 2024

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Max Levchin
Recode Decode: Max Levchin, Affirm CEO · Jan 2016

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Megan Twohey

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Melanie Perkins
Canva's CEO on its big pivot to AI enterprise software · 2 episodes

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Michael Dearing

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Michael Truell
Why tech is racing to adopt AI coding · Aug 2025

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Mike Volpi
Recode Decode: Index Ventures' Mike Volpi and Danny Rimer · Aug 2019

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Niccolo De Masi
Recode Decode: Niccolo de Masi, Glu CEO · Dec 2015

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Patrick Spence
Inside Sonos' decision to sue Google with CEO Patrick Spence and CLO Eddie Lazarus · Mar 2022

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Paul English
Recode Decode: Kayak co-founder Paul English · Nov 2016

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Ryan Petersen
How Trump’s tariffs actually work on the ground · 3 episodes

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Sarah Cooper
Recode Decode: Sarah Cooper, author, "100 Tricks To Appear Smart in Meetings” · Jan 2018

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Sarah Friar
Recode Decode: Square CFO Sarah Friar and Instacart CEO Apoorva Mehta · Sep 2018

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Sarah Kunst

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Sarah Tavel
Recode Decode: Sarah Tavel, partner, Benchmark · Feb 2018

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Scooter Braun

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Scott Kupor
Recode Decode: Andreessen Horowitz's Scott Kupor · Aug 2019

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Semil Shah
Recode Decode: Haystack founder Semil Shah · Aug 2018

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Shervin Pishevar
Recode Decode: Can Silicon Valley get its mojo back? (Live) · Oct 2017

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Shoshana Zuboff
Recode Decode: Shoshana Zuboff · Feb 2019

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Sridhar Ramaswamy
Recode Decode: Sridhar Ramaswamy · Jun 2020

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Steve Case
Recode Decode: Steve Case’s “Third Wave” · Apr 2016

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Steve Huffman
Recode Decode: Reddit CEO Steve Huffman · 2 episodes

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Stewart Butterfield
Recode Decode: Stewart Butterfield · 2 episodes

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Tomer Cohen
‘We might be wrong, but we’re not confused’: how Tomer Cohen, chief product officer at LinkedIn, figures out what works best · Dec 2022

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Tommy Vietor

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Tony Xu
Recode Decode: DoorDash CEO Tony Xu and COO Christopher Payne · Jan 2019

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