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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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