There's no AI without the cloud, says AWS CEO Adam Selipsky
AWS is quite a story. It started as an experiment almost 20 years ago with Amazon trying to sell its excess server capacity. And people really doubted it. Why was the online bookstore trying to sell c...
8 Aug 20231h 9min
Rewind: Can Mastodon seize the moment from Twitter?
ActivityPub is back in the news, thanks to Meta’s Threads launch and Elon’s continued immolation of Twitter — now X. That makes this the perfect time to dig into the Decoder archives to hear what Mast...
25 Jul 20231h 21min
Why would anyone make a website in 2023? Squarespace CEO Anthony Casalena has some ideas
Today I’m talking to Anthony Casalena, the founder and CEO of Squarespace, the ubiquitous web hosting and design company. If you’re a podcast listener, you’ve heard a Squarespace ad. I was excited to...
18 Jul 20231h 3min
Inside Google’s big AI shuffle — and how it plans to stay competitive, with Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis
Today, I’m talking to Demis Hassabis, the CEO of Google DeepMind, the newly created division of Google responsible for AI efforts across the company. Google DeepMind is the result of an internal merge...
10 Jul 20231h 2min
Why CEO David Baszucki is ready for Roblox to grow up
Roblox has 66 million daily users, and people spent 14 billion collective hours on Roblox in just Q1 of 2023. But its CEO David Baszucki still wants to see the company grow. One idea? Aging up the ki...
27 Jun 202354min
Gary Vaynerchuk is ‘petrified’ of Slack
If you’ve spent more than two minutes somewhere on social media, you have probably come across Gary Vaynerchuk. For years I have wondered, is this just a character? Or is there a real Gary Vaynerchuk ...
21 Jun 202350min
Private equity bought out your doctor and bankrupted Toys”R”Us. Here’s why that matters.
The idea behind private equity or PE is simple: a private equity firm gathers up a bunch of cash, raises some investor cash and takes on a lot of debt to buy various companies, often taking them off t...
13 Jun 20231h
SiriusXM’s 360 strategy with CEO Jennifer Witz
Jennifer Witz is the CEO of SiriusXM. You probably know the company as the satellite radio brand in virtually every new car, but it also owns Pandora, a huge podcast network that includes Team Coco an...
6 Jun 20231h 5min
