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: New York Times tech columnist Farhad Manjoo explains the 'Frightf...
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Recode Decode: John Hennessy and Dave Patterson, winners, 2017 Turing Award
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Recode Decode: Joanna Coles, author, 'Love Rules'
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Recode Decode: Mark Suster, managing partner, Upfront Ventures
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Recode Decode: BlackBerry CEO John Chen
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Recode Decode: Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman: Silicon Valley has 'lost its purpose'
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Recode Decode: Apple CEO Tim Cook
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Recode Decode: Google CEO Sundar Pichai and YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki (Live)
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Recode Decode: Former White House advisor Valerie Jarrett
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Recode Decode: Maria Shriver and Christina Schwarzenegger discuss 'Take Your Pil...
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Recode Decode: Flying cars are the future of military transportation
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Recode Decode: What men and women need to know about working together
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Recode Decode: Therapist Esther Perel
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Recode Decode: Anthony 'The Mooch' Scaramucci
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Recode Decode: CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on sex, #MeToo and North Korea (Live fr...
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Recode Decode: Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes
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Recode Decode: Sen. Chuck Schumer
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Recode Decode: Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg on techlash and #MeToo (Live)
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Recode Decode: Is 'Uber meets Harvard' the future of learning?
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Recode Decode: Why Katie Couric left Yahoo
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Recode Decode: Can an alt-weekly newspaper survive in 2018?
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Recode Decode: Jennifer Fonstad, co-founder, Aspect Ventures
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Recode Decode: Sarah Tavel, partner, Benchmark
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Recode Decode: HuffPost editor in chief Lydia Polgreen (Live at Code Media 2018)
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Recode Decode: YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki (Live at Code Media 2018)
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Recode Decode: Jeremy Bailenson, author, 'Experience on Demand'
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Recode Decode: What Abraham Lincoln and Rachel Carson can teach us about leaders...
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Recode Decode: How to fix Silicon Valley's 'Brotopia'
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Recode Decode: Dipayan Ghosh and Ben Scott, co-authors, ‘Digital Deceit’
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Recode Decode: Chuck Todd, moderator, 'Meet the Press'
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Recode Decode: Alexandra Petri, columnist, the Washington Post
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Recode Decode: Andrew Keen, author, 'How to Fix the Future'
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Recode Decode: Gregg Spiridellis, CEO, JibJab
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Recode Decode: David Friend, author, ‘The Naughty Nineties’
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Recode Decode: Sarah Cooper, author, "100 Tricks To Appear Smart in Meetings”
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Recode Decode: Patty McCord author of "Powerful"
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Recode Decode: Dick Costolo, CEO, Chorus
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Recode Decode: Kara Swisher visits the Longform Podcast (Live)
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Recode Decode: Zach Stafford and Trish Bendix, editors, Into
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Recode Decode: Uber's Tony West and Eric Holder on exposing wrongdoing (Live)
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Recode Decode: Sports columnist Christine Brennan previews her 18th consecutive...
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Recode Decode: Megan Quinn, general partner, Spark Capital
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Recode Decode: Noam Cohen, author, 'The Know-It-Alls'
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Recode Decode: Andrew Mason, CEO, Descript
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Recode Decode: Kara Swisher visits Pod Save America (Live)
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Recode Decode: Daniel Gross, partner, Y Combinator
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Recode Decode: Leslie Berlin, historian, Stanford University
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