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What the climate story gets wrong
Decoder with Nilay Patel· Nov 24, 2025
Hey everyone, it's Nilay. It’s been great being back in the Decoder chair this fall, and we’ve got a bunch of great episodes coming up to round out the year. But the production team is off this week for the holiday, so t…
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Canva's CEO on its big pivot to AI enterprise software
Decoder with Nilay Patel· Apr 20, 2026
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 platform with AI too…
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Hank Green lets loose on YouTube, billionaires, and algorithms
Decoder with Nilay Patel· Feb 23, 2026
Today, I’m talking with Hank Green, a longtime friend of Decoder and the co-founder and now former owner of Complexly, an online education company he started with his brother John in 2012. I say former owner because Hank…
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OpenAI's executive exodus has one big winner
Decoder with Nilay Patel· Aug 27, 2026
Today, I’m talking with Hayden Field, The Verge’s senior AI reporter, about some pure Decoder bait: the seemingly-endless org chart changes at OpenAI, and how all of them seem to consolidate power under cofounder Greg Br…
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Experian's tech chief defends credit scores: 'We're not Palantir'
Decoder with Nilay Patel· Jan 26, 2026
Experian is one of those giant multinationals convoluted enough to have multiple CEOs all over the world, so first I asked Alex Lintner, Experian's CEO of technology and software solutions, to dig into the classic Decode…
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He changed outdoor cooking forever — then took over Weber
Decoder with Nilay Patel· Jun 29, 2026
It’s time for our annual Fourth of July grill episode here at Decoder, which is when we invite the CEOs of outdoor cooking companies onto the show to explain just how their businesses kind of look like every other busine…
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Bluesky’s new CEO wants a big tent, not a bubble
Decoder with Nilay Patel· Aug 3, 2026
Today, I’m talking with Toni Schneider, the new head of social platform Bluesky who formally took over after a short stint as interim CEO. This is one of my favorite kinds of interviews, because a couple years ago we had…
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What’s next for Netflix and Paramount in the Warner Bros. battle
Decoder with Nilay Patel· Dec 22, 2025
Hey everyone, it’s Nilay. Decoder is on our holiday break. We’ve got a lot of fun stuff coming up in the New Year, though, including a special Decoder Live at CES. Stay tuned for more details, including how to RSVP for f…
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The CMO is a dying role, says Digitas' Amy Lanzi
Decoder with Nilay Patel· Jul 2, 2026
We’ve got a special Decoder today. I had the chance to talk with Amy Lanzi, the CEO of Digitas North America, in front of a live audience at the Uber villa at the Cannes Lions advertising festival in the south of France.…
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Joanna Stern is not a robot, but she lived with them
Decoder with Nilay Patel· May 11, 2026
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 of my co-founders at T…
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Condé Nast CEO Roger Lynch on AI, the Met Gala & his secret succession plan
Decoder with Nilay Patel· Jun 11, 2026
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, starting on Monday. In th…
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Dr. Jill Lepore on why the AI backlash is vital for the future
Decoder with Nilay Patel· Jul 20, 2026
Dr. Jill Lepore is one of the best writers there is at identifying institutional patterns in history, and Decoder is a show about systems and organization — so her new book, The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State, is …
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Why the current tech backlash feels different
Decoder with Nilay Patel· Sep 10, 2026
We’re back with another Decoder mailbag special. This time, we focused on feedback to Nilay’s “software brain” video essay, our ongoing coverage of AI and Big Tech backlash, surveillance, interviewing politicians ahead o…
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How to win — or lose — Decoder
Decoder with Nilay Patel· Apr 30, 2026
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 the guest, answering q…
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Inside Xbox's executive shakeup
Decoder with Nilay Patel· Feb 26, 2026
Today, we’re talking about the future of Xbox. Phil Spencer, a two-time Decoder guest who’s led Xbox for more than a decade, is stepping down. But in a shocking twist, his deputy long-assumed successor Sarah Bond is also…
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Adam Conover explains how YouTube ruined everything
Decoder with Nilay Patel· Sep 14, 2026
Adam Conover is a familiar face to anyone who’s spent time on the internet. He got his start at CollegeHumor back in the day, before transitioning into cable TV with Adam Ruins Everything, then onto Netflix, and all the …
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Siemens CEO's mission to automate everything
Decoder with Nilay Patel· Feb 9, 2026
Siemens is one of those absolutely giant, extremely important, fairly opaque companies we love to dig into on Decoder. At a very basic, reductive level, Siemens makes the hardware and software that let other companies ru…
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Proton’s CTO: No company is going to jail for you
Decoder with Nilay Patel· Jul 16, 2026
We’ve got the first of a two-part series on the systems that run the world: I’m talking today with Bart Butler, the CTO of Proton, the company that makes private and secure productivity software. There’s a lot of big Dec…
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The end of the human internet
Decoder with Nilay Patel· Jul 30, 2026
Hey everyone, this is Nick Statt, senior producer on Decoder. We’re taking a brief publishing break while Nilay is out on vacation. We’ll resume regular programming next week, and we’ve got some great episodes in the wor…
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THE PEOPLE DO NOT YEARN FOR AUTOMATION
Decoder with Nilay Patel· Apr 23, 2026
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 brain, and it's a parti…
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How Sundar Pichai is rethinking Google for the AI era
Decoder with Nilay Patel· May 26, 2026
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 about. This year, in addition t…
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Stack Overflow users don't trust AI. They're using it anyway
Decoder with Nilay Patel· Dec 15, 2025
Stack Overflow CEO Prashanth Chandrasekar was last on the show in 2022 — just one month before ChatGPT launched and upended literally everything for Stack Overflow in a deeply existential way. He called a company emergen…
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It's about ethics in journalism, with Ben Smith
Decoder with Nilay Patel· Ben Smith· Aug 17, 2026
Today I’m talking to Ben Smith, the editor-in-chief of Semafor. Ben ran BuzzFeed News at the height of the Facebook traffic boom, and even wrote a book about it, called Traffic, which he discussed with me on Decoder back…
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I have some questions for Mark Zuckerberg
Decoder with Nilay Patel· Sep 24, 2026
It’s a big week for Meta. The company has its big Connect conference, and the new Muse AI agent appears to be an early hit. CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been doing a lot of interviews about it all — so of course we asked for …
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Docusign's CEO on the dangers of trusting AI to read, and write, your contracts
Decoder with Nilay Patel· Feb 2, 2026
Today, I’m talking with Allan Thygesen, who is the CEO of Docusign. You know Docusign, it’s the platform that lets you sign stuff online. It turns out 7,000 people work there, which is one of those facts floating around …
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Musk v Altman: Much ado about nothing
Decoder with Nilay Patel· May 21, 2026
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 — or at OpenAI, for …
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Can Puck’s CEO reinvent the news business for the influencer age?
Decoder with Nilay Patel· Apr 13, 2026
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 are often must-reads i…
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That UL safety logo is a lot more complicated than it looks
Decoder with Nilay Patel· Apr 27, 2026
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 companies to standardi…
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Rewind: CEO Jim Farley on Ford's EV gamble
Decoder with Nilay Patel· Jun 25, 2026
Hey everyone, Nilay here. You might remember I took a break from Decoder last year — we had a baby, so I took some leave. In my place, we had an excellent slate of guest hosts, and we’ve been working hard to bring you th…
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Exclusive: Jonah Peretti explains why he sold BuzzFeed
Decoder with Nilay Patel· May 18, 2026
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 leadership. Jonah is taking …
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"All chaos and panic": Nilay answers your burning Decoder questions
Decoder with Nilay Patel· Dec 18, 2025
Hey everyone! Decoder senior producers Kate Cox and Nick Statt here. We’ve had a big year, including nearly 100 episodes, a new YouTube channel, an ad-free podcast feed, and a slate of great guest hosts while Nilay was o…
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