Remix: How private equity took over everything
Private equity is a simple concept — a PE firm uses some combination of money and debt to buy a company, then makes a profit — but the reality of what happens to the companies that get acquired is any...
13 Jun 202439min
AI will make money sooner than you think, says Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez
Cohere is one of the buzziest AI startups around right now. It's not making consumer products; it's focused on the enterprise market and making AI products for big companies. And there's a huge tensio...
10 Jun 20241h 10min
Why the video game industry is such a mess
The art of video game design is flourishing, but it feels like a really grim time to be in the business of making and distributing games. Huge global publishers and tiny indie studios alike are facing...
6 Jun 202437min
Zoom CEO Eric Yuan wants AI clones in meetings
Today, I’m talking with Zoom CEO Eric Yuan — and let me tell you, this conversation is nothing like what I expected. It turns out Eric wants Zoom to be much, much more than just a videoconferencing pl...
3 Jun 20241h 1min
Google Zero is here. Now what?
For nearly 20 years now, the web has been Google’s platform; we’ve all just lived on it. I think of Decoder as a show for people trying to build things, and a lot of people have built their things on ...
30 Mai 202427min
How the FBI built its own smartphone company to hack the criminal underworld
Today, I’m talking with Joseph Cox, one of the best cybersecurity reporters around and a co-founder of the new media site 404 Media. Joseph has a new book coming out in June called Dark Wire: The Incr...
23 Mai 202442min
Google's Sundar Pichai on AI-powered search and the future of the web
Today, I’m talking to Google CEO Sundar Pichai, who joined the show the day after the big Google I/O developer conference. Google’s focus during the conference was on how it’s building AI into virtual...
20 Mai 202444min
TikTok's big bet to fight the ban bill
Last week, TikTok filed a lawsuit against the US government claiming the divest-or-ban law is unconstitutional — a case it needs to win in order to keep operating under Bytedance’s ownership. There’s ...
16 Mai 202446min
