How Reddit is getting simpler — and dealing with TikTok, with chief product officer Pali Bhat
Pali Bhat joined Reddit from Google about a year ago — he’s actually Reddit’s first-ever chief product officer, which is pretty surprising considering that Reddit is a series of product experiences: t...
7 Maalis 202359min
Podcasting? Radio? It’s all one big opportunity for iHeartMedia digital CEO Conal Byrne
We taped this episode live at Hot Pod Summit. That’s our conference for the podcast industry. We have a whole newsletter for podcasters. It’s called Hot Pod, written by our very own Ariel Shapiro. Hot...
28 Helmi 20231h 6min
Erase browser history: can AI reset the browser battle?
Hello and welcome to Decoder. I’m Nilay Patel, editor in chief of The Verge, and Decoder is my show about big ideas, and other problems. Today, I'm talking to Mitchell Baker, the chairwoman and CEO ...
14 Helmi 20231h 7min
Microsoft thinks AI can beat Google at search — CEO Satya Nadella explains why
I’m coming to you from Microsoft’s campus in Redmond, where just a few hours ago, Microsoft announced that the next version of the Bing search engine would be powered by OpenAI, the company that makes...
8 Helmi 202324min
How HBO’s creatives survived corporate chaos
HBO started as an experiment. It was a way to get people to switch from getting TV over broadcast antennas to cable by offering events you’d otherwise need tickets to see: boxing, plays, movies. That’...
7 Helmi 20231h 6min
Inside the global battle over chip manufacturing
A few weeks ago, President Biden was in the Netherlands, where he asked the Dutch government to restrict export from a company called ASML to China. ASML is the only company in the world that makes a ...
31 Tammi 202351min
Taylor Swift and the music industry's next $20
I have this theory that music is usually about five years ahead of the rest of media in terms of its relationship to tech—whether that’s new formats based on new tech, like vinyl to CDs; new business ...
17 Tammi 20231h 21min
Breaking free from big tech and big content with authors Cory Doctorow and Rebecca Giblin
Last year I spoke with Cory Doctorow and Rebecca Giblin about their new book, Chokepoint Capitalism. It’s a book about artists and technology and platforms, and how different kinds of distribution and...
10 Tammi 20231h 28min
