Biometrics? Bring it on: Why Okta’s Jameeka Green Aaron wants passwords to go away
Okta is a big company, a Wall Street SaaS darling. For most of us, it's the thing we have to log into 50 times a week just to get any work done. But from Okta's point of view, Jameeka Green Aaron told...
29 Aug 20231h 13min
Fandom runs some of the biggest communities on the web. Can CEO Perkins Miller keep them happy?
Perkins Miller is the CEO of Fandom, which both hosts thousands of wikis for everything from Disney to Grand Theft Auto and also runs several publications. Millions of people contribute millions of pi...
22 Aug 20231h 10min
Land of the Giants: Tesla vs. The Competition
We have a little surprise in the feed today: An episode of "Land of the Giants," which is all about Tesla this season. Former Verge transportation reporter Tamara Warren and former Jalopnik EIC Patric...
15 Aug 202338min
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
