Polestar CEO Thomas Ingenlath on life after Volvo and weathering the EV slowdown
Today, I’m talking with Polestar CEO Thomas Ingenlath, whom I first interviewed on the show back in 2021. Those were heady days — especially for upstart EV companies like Polestar, which all seemed po...
6 Touko 20241h 4min
Understanding the chaos at Tesla
Today, Verge transportation editor Andy Hawkins and I are going to try and figure out Tesla. I said try — I did not say succeed. But we’re going to try. That’s because Tesla has been on a real rollerc...
2 Touko 202439min
Mercedes-Benz CEO Ola Källenius explains why EVs are still the future — but Apple's next-gen CarPlay isn't
A lot has changed since the last time Ola was on Decoder. Back then, he said Mercedes would have an all-EV lineup by 2030 — a promise a whole lot of car companies, including Mercedes, have now had to ...
29 Huhti 20241h 8min
Why the TikTok ban won't solve the US's online privacy problems
Today, we’re talking about the brand-new TikTok ban — and how years of Congressional inaction on a federal privacy law helped lead us to this moment of apparent national panic about algorithmic social...
25 Huhti 202447min
Discord CEO Jason Citron makes the case for a smaller, more private internet
Today, I’m talking to Jason Citron, the co-founder and CEO of Discord, the gaming-focused voice and chat app. You might think Discord is just something Slack for gamers, but over time, it has become m...
22 Huhti 202458min
Disney just fought off a shareholder revolt — but the clock’s still ticking
Today, we're talking about Disney, the massive activist investor revolt it just fought off, and what happens next in the world of streaming. Because what happens to Disney really tells us a lot about ...
18 Huhti 202442min
Dropbox CEO Drew Houston wants you to embrace AI and remote work
At the absolute most basic, Dropbox is cloud storage for your stuff — but that puts it at the nexus of a huge number of today’s biggest challenges in tech. As the company that helps you organize your ...
15 Huhti 20241h 4min
The rise and fall of Vice Media
Today we’re talking about Vice, the media company: Where it came from, what it did, and, ultimately, why it collapsed into a much smaller, sadder version of itself. This is a lousy time for digital ...
11 Huhti 202443min
