‘The Goliath is Amazon’: after 100 years, Barnes & Noble wants to go back to its indie roots
In this installment of our Centennial Series on companies that are over 100 years old, we are talking to Barnes & Noble CEO James Daunt. The last few decades have thrown some hurdles in Barnes & Noble...
16 Maalis 20231h 3min
Why Spotify wants to look like TikTok, with co-president Gustav Söderström
Gustav Söderström has worked at Spotify for a long time; his first big project was leading the launch of its mobile app back in 2009. That makes him the perfect company leader to talk to about Spotify...
14 Maalis 202358min
Can Xerox reinvent itself for another 100 years?
Intro: Steve Bandrowczak, the CEO of Xerox, an iconic company that got started all the way back in 1906 as a manufacturer of photo paper and is, of course, best known for pioneering the copy machine. ...
9 Maalis 20231h 3min
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
