The rise of shadow lobbying and its influence on decades of US policy
Today, we’re talking about politics and lobbying in America. It’s hard to imagine a time when the influence of big corporations and billionaires didn’t touch every part of American politics, but the k...
27 Jun 202445min
Netflix co-CEO Greg Peters on the streamer's shifting culture and where ads, AI, and games fit in
Today, I’m talking with Greg Peters, the co-CEO of Netflix. I caught up with Greg while he was at the Cannes Lions festival in France, which is basically the world’s biggest gathering of advertisers a...
24 Jun 20241h 6min
Inside the players and politics of the AI industry
We’ve got a special episode of the show today – I was traveling last week, so Verge deputy editor Alex Heath and our new senior AI reporter Kylie Robison are filling in for me, with a very different k...
20 Jun 202445min
Why Tubi CEO Anjali Sud thinks free TV can win again
Tubi is a free and very rapidly growing streaming TV platform — according to Nielsen, it had an average of a million viewers watching every minute in May 2024, beating out Disney Plus, Max, Peacock, a...
17 Jun 20241h 7min
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
