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 Apr 202443min
Why Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince is the internet’s unlikely defender
Cloudflare is an infrastructure provider basically protecting more than 20% of the entire web from bad actors. When everything is going well, you don't even have to know it exists. It's one of the onl...
8 Apr 20241h 19min
Why Nintendo sued a Switch emulator out of existence
Hello, and welcome to Decoder. This is David Pierce, editor-at-large at The Verge and co-host of The Vergecast, subbing in for Nilay, who’s out on vacation. Regular Decoder programming returns next we...
4 Apr 202443min
Mailchimp CEO Rania Succar on culture, acquisitions, and how big 'small business' really is
Today, I’m talking to Intuit Mailchimp CEO Rania Succar, who took over as CEO in 2022 after a pretty rough patch in the company’s history. In 2021, Intuit acquired the company, and the very next year,...
1 Apr 20241h 6min
Can you patent a pizza?
Hey everyone it’s Nilay – I’m on vacation this week, so the Decoder team is taking a short break. We’ll be back next week with both the interview and the new explainer episodes. To tide you over until...
28 Mar 202452min
Federation is the future of social media, says Bluesky CEO Jay Graber
Today, I’m talking to Jay Graber, the CEO of Bluesky Social, which is a decentralized competitor to Meta’s Threads, Mastodon, and X. Bluesky actually started inside of what was then known as Twitter —...
25 Mar 20241h 10min
How Europe’s Digital Markets Act is reshaping Big Tech
Both the EU and US have spent the past decade looking at Big Tech and saying, "someone should do something!" In the US, lawmakers are still basically shouting that. But in the EU, regulators did somet...
21 Mar 202432min
Figma CEO Dylan Field is optimistic about the future and AI
We’ve got a fun one today — I talked to Figma CEO Dylan Field in front of a live audience at South by Southwest in Austin, Texas. And we got into it – we talked about everything from design, to softwa...
18 Mar 202453min
