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 our shared future.
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Recode Decode: What's next for Amazon's Alexa?
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Recode Decode: Four magic words for entrepreneurs: ‘Do your fucking job.’
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Recode Decode: Why salad chain Sweetgreen thinks like a tech company
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Recode Decode: How Peter Jackson’s team made WWI footage look new
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Recode Decode: Ezra Klein and Kara Swisher on the future of journalism
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Recode Decode: Why it's OK to be analog in a digital world
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Recode Decode: Should Mark Zuckerberg fire himself?
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Recode Decode: NBC's Chuck Todd, Andrea Mitchell and Hallie Jackson (Live)
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Recode Decode: Facebook and Google are “the enemies of independent thought”
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Recode Decode: Casey Newton and Louie Swisher
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Recode Decode: Silicon Valley loves to break the rules. Is that a good thing?
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Recode Decode: How disinformation poisoned a ‘Facebook nation’
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Recode Decode: Undocumented immigrants are people, not political props
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Recode Decode: After 20,000 workers walked out, Google said it got the message....
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Recode Decode: Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff
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Recode Decode: Should the First Amendment apply to Facebook?
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Recode Decode: Milk Bar CEO Christina Tosi
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Recode Decode: Why nonprofits should think more like tech companies
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Recode Decode: Sally Yates
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Recode Decode: RevUp CEO Steve Spinner
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Recode Decode: The ‘bad ideas’ that broke American capitalism
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Recode Decode: Why the New York Times won’t sell itself to a billionaire
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Recode Decode: Elon Musk
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Recode Decode: 'Good and Mad' author Rebecca Traister
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Recode Decode: 'The Fixer' author Bradley Tusk
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Recode Decode: Hillary Clinton
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Recode Decode: 'Positive Populism' author Steve Hilton
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Recode Decode: 'Will & Grace' co-star Sean Hayes
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Recode Decode: 23andMe CEO Anne Wojcicki
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Recode Decode: Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti
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Recode Decode: AnchorFree CEO David Gorodyansky
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Recode Decode: 2U CEO Chip Paucek
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Pivot: Google's data breach, Facebook Portal and Taylor Swift
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Recode Decode: Former Cisco CEO John Chambers
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Recode Decode: 'Sorry to Bother You' director Boots Riley
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Recode Decode: Rep. Ro Khanna
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Recode Decode: 'Winners Take All' author Anand Giridharadas
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Recode Decode: 'Full Frontal' host Samantha Bee
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Recode Decode: Square CFO Sarah Friar and Instacart CEO Apoorva Mehta
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Recode Decode: Jawbone Health CEO Hosain Rahman
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Recode Decode: Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom in 2017
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Recode Decode: World Bank Group president Jim Yong Kim
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Recode Decode: The NYT's Maggie Haberman, HuffPost's Lydia Polgreen and actor Ja...
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Recode Decode: 'Swiped' director Nancy Jo Sales
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Recode Decode: 'AI Superpowers' author Kai-Fu Lee
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Recode Decode: Nicole Wong, former deputy CTO of the United States
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Recode Decode: 'Big Game' author Mark Leibovich
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Recode Decode: Slack chief product officer April Underwood
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Recode Decode: Sleeping Giants founder Matt Rivitz
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Recode Decode: U.S. Justice Department antitrust lawyer Makan Delrahim
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