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Since Jul 2015
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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.

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Condé Nast CEO Roger Lynch on AI, the Met Gala & his secret succession plan

Jun 11, 2026 54m

Hey! Nilay here. It’s conference season, so I’m traveling across the country and around the world a lot more than usual. Stay tuned for some very special Decoder episodes we have coming up soon,…

Microsoft AI chief thinks superintelligence is near, but won't take your job

Jun 08, 2026 1h 16m

Today I’m talking with Mustafa Suleyman, the CEO of Microsoft AI. This is a real burner of an episode. We covered everything from his approach to training new models to his criticisms of Anthropic…

Elon Musk is steamrolling Wall Street to become a trillionaire

Jun 04, 2026 48m

My guest today is Ryan Mac, a technology reporter at The New York Times and co-author of the excellent book Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter, which came out in 2024. I wanted to have…

AI is blowing up music. How should the Grammys handle it?

Jun 01, 2026 1h 5m

I last talked to Recording Academy CEO Harvey Mason Jr in 2024 — when it was obvious that generative AI would upend the music industry, but not exactly clear how that would happen. Now, Harvey says…

Rivian's software chief thinks you don't need CarPlay or buttons

May 28, 2026 1h 9m

Today, I’m talking with Wassym Bensaid, the chief software officer at Rivian, and the co-ceo of Rivian’s platform joint venture with Volkswagen. That joint venture, called RV Tech, is about a year…

How Sundar Pichai is rethinking Google for the AI era

May 26, 2026 51m

Connecting with Google CEO Sundar Pichai at I/O every year is one of my favorite Decoder traditions. This was our fifth year doing it, and there’s always a whole slew of new things to talk…

Musk v Altman: Much ado about nothing

May 21, 2026 34m

Musk v Altman was nominally about OpenAI's conversion to a for-profit entity, and how it went about that change. But really, the suit seems mostly to have been about Elon Musk being mad at Sam Altman…

Exclusive: Jonah Peretti explains why he sold BuzzFeed

May 18, 2026 1h 10m

Just days before we spoke, BuzzFeed co-founder and CEO Jonah Peretti agreed to sell the company, which was losing money and at risk of shutting down. Now there’s a new lease on life — and new…

How companies weaponize the terms of service against you

May 14, 2026 54m

Brendan Ballou is founder of the Public Integrity Project and author of the new book,  When Companies Run the Courts, about the rise of forced arbitration. Forced arbitration is similarly everywhere…

Joanna Stern is not a robot, but she lived with them

May 11, 2026 1h

My guest today is longtime friend of the show Joanna Stern. You all know Joanna: she is the former senior personal technology columnist for The Wall Street Journal, a former Decoder guest host, one…

Rewind: How AI is fueling an existential crisis in education

May 07, 2026 42m

Hey, everyone, Nilay here. We’re off today, while the team and I are cooking on a lot of really great stuff in the coming weeks. We’ll be back with an all-new interview on Monday.  In the meantime,…

Dara Khosrowshahi on replacing Uber drivers — and himself — with AI

May 04, 2026 1h 14m

It’s become an annual tradition to have Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi join us in the studio when he comes to New York for Uber’s big Go-Get event every year. This year, the big news was that Uber's…

How to win — or lose — Decoder

Apr 30, 2026 45m

This is Nick Statt, senior producer on Decoder. We last ran a mailbag episode during the holidays, and we decided it was a good idea to do that kind of thing more often. So we’re back with Nilay as…

That UL safety logo is a lot more complicated than it looks

Apr 27, 2026 1h 2m

Jennifer Scanlon is CEO of UL Solutions, one of those hidden-in-plain-sight companies we like to poke at here on Decoder. UL's been around for more than 100 years; it started as a way for insurance…

THE PEOPLE DO NOT YEARN FOR AUTOMATION

Apr 23, 2026 19m

Today on Decoder, I want to lay out an idea that's been banging around my head for weeks now as we've been reporting on AI and having conversations here on this show. I've been calling it software…

Canva's CEO on its big pivot to AI enterprise software

Apr 20, 2026 1h 6m

The last time Canva CEO Melanie Perkins was on Decoder, the company was starting a big push into enterprise. Now, she's leading it through a total reinvention, going, in Canva's words, "from a design…

Ronan Farrow on Sam Altman's "unconstrained" relationship with the truth

Apr 16, 2026 1h 2m

Today I’m talking with Ronan Farrow, one of the biggest stars of investigative reporting working today. He broke the Harvey Weinstein story, among many, many others. Just last week, he and co-author…

Can Puck’s CEO reinvent the news business for the influencer age?

Apr 13, 2026 1h 14m

Sarah Personette is the CEO of Puck, a media company that's been around for about five years. Puck hires big star reporters who write newsletters as part of a subscription bundle. Those newsletters…

The AI industry's existential race for profits

Apr 09, 2026 38m

Today, let’s talk about the looming AI monetization cliff, and whether some of the biggest companies in space can become real, profitable businesses before they careen right off it. My guest today is…

Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins wants data centers in space

Apr 06, 2026 57m

My guest today is Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins. Cisco is one of those big companies that everyone has heard of but most of us don’t have to interact with very much; they’re not really a consumer brand.…

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