I can't make products just for 41 year old tech founders," Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky on taking it back to the basics
Brian Chesky, the co-founder and CEO of Airbnb, was previously on the show in 2021. Back then, Airbnb was betting big on long-term stays for remote work amid the pandemic, and Chesky had just restruct...
9 Touko 20231h 4min
The social media age for news is over. Former BuzzFeed News editor Ben Smith on what’s next
Ben Smith is the former and founding editor-in-chief of Buzzfeed News, the founder and editor-in-chief of Semafor, and the author of a new book called Traffic: Genius, Rivalry, and Delusion in the Bil...
2 Touko 20231h 11min
Bitcoin is still the future of payments, says Lightspark CEO David Marcus
We’ve got a special episode with Alex Heath, deputy editor at The Verge and a familiar host for Decoder listeners, and David Marcus, the CEO of Lightspark. That’s a company that just launched a servic...
25 Huhti 202350min
Brightdrop isn’t just selling electric vans — it's redesigning delivery
Travis Katz is the CEO of BrightDrop, a subsidiary of GM that makes electrified delivery vans with an eye toward rebooting all of how delivery works. BrightDrop has pretty big partnerships already, wi...
18 Huhti 20231h 11min
Is Substack Notes a ‘Twitter clone’? We asked CEO Chris Best.
It is fair to say that Substack has had a dramatic week and a half or so, and I talked to their CEO Chris Best about it. The company announced a new feature called Substack Notes, which looks quite a ...
13 Huhti 20231h 8min
Watching Silicon Valley Bank melt down from the front row with Brex CEO Henrique Dubugras
Brex CEO Henrique Dubugras found himself playing an important role during the Silicon Valley Bank collapse. Brex is what you might call a neobank — not a traditional bank but rather a financial servic...
4 Huhti 20231h 2min
The surprisingly complex business of toys, with Hasbro CEO Chris Cocks
Chris Cocks is the CEO of Hasbro, a company that just turned 100 this year. Hasbro is a huge company, making everything from Transformers to Lincoln Logs to My Little Pony and Monopoly. It also makes ...
31 Maalis 20231h 10min
Can Mastodon seize the moment from Twitter?
Today I’m talking to Mastodon CEO Eugen Rochko. Mastodon is the open-source, decentralized competitor to Twitter, and it’s where a lot of Twitter users have gone in this, our post-Elon era. The idea i...
28 Maalis 20231h 16min
