Inside Sonos' decision to sue Google with CEO Patrick Spence and CLO Eddie Lazarus
This week I sat down with Patrick Spence, the CEO of Sonos, and Eddie Lazarus, his Chief Legal Officer. I wanted both Patrick and Eddie on the show to talk about when a company like Sonos makes the de...
1 Mar 20221h 3min
Can the law keep up with crypto? With professor Tonya Evans
I’m going to let you in on a Decoder secret: at the end of last year, I tasked our producers with finding better ways for us to cover crypto and Web 3.0 on Decoder. I don’t think it’s any secret that ...
22 Feb 20221h 6min
What an NFL coaching scandal can teach tech about diversity
Bärí Williams is a legal and operations advisor to tech companies who focuses on AI and diversity. Her credentials are rock solid: Bärí was lead counsel at Facebook working on various projects, includ...
15 Feb 202247min
News with a Capital B: CEO Lauren Williams on why we need news for and by Black people
Lauren Williams is the co-founder and CEO of Capital B, a new nonprofit media company dedicated to news for Black audiences. Capital B launched on January 31st, with both a national news site and a lo...
8 Feb 202255min
The business of finding a better job, with Career Karma CEO Ruben Harris
It’s an interesting time to talk to someone in the business of helping people get new jobs — we’re still fully in the middle of the pandemic-driven Great Resignation, and a record 4.5 million people q...
1 Feb 20221h
7 CEOs and one secretary of Transportation on the future of cars
Regular listeners of Decoder know car CEOs love coming on the show. There is a lot of change in the car industry, a lot of big ideas about how to manage that change, and a lot of big problems to solve...
25 Jan 20221h 7min
Can CEO Herbert Diess reinvent Volkswagen with EVs and software?
Links Dieselgate coverage on The Verge VW vows to build massive electric car charging network across US Electrify America announces doubling of charging network with 1,800 stations and 10,000 chargers...
18 Jan 20221h 14min
Almost every smartphone has a Qualcomm chip inside. Where does CEO Cristiano Amon go from here?
Cristiano Amon is the president and CEO of Qualcomm, and he’s always been a relentless cheerleader for what mobile computing can do for people — especially if that mobile computing is powered by Qualc...
11 Jan 202257min
