
Vimeo CEO Philip Moyer is betting on the human touch — and AI
Vimeo started many years ago as something of an artsier, more creative competitor to YouTube. Its last CEO, Anjali Sud, took the company through a pretty huge transformation into an enterprise softwar...
24 Feb 20251h 13min

Why gaming never had its Netflix moment
This is David Pierce, editor-at-large at The Verge. Nilay is off this week for a much-deserved break. So I’m filling in for him, and the Decoder team thought this would be a good opportunity to switch...
20 Feb 202554min

The FCC is a now a weapon in Trump’s war on free speech
The First Amendment, protecting free speech and free media, is a pillar of US law. It is, famously, the first one. We don’t usually tolerate government interference with speech. So it’s been disconce...
13 Feb 202547min

Sen. Ron Wyden is here to stop Elon Musk
Today, I’m talking with Senator Ron Wyden, a democrat and the senior senator from Oregon. He’s been in the Senate for almost 30 years, which makes him one of longest serving members of the institution...
10 Feb 202558min

Elon Musk's presidency is just getting started
Today, we’re discussing a very big problem with extremely far-reaching consequences: Do we still have a functional federal government here in the United States? And how much of it has been handed enti...
6 Feb 202541min

Bookshop CEO Andy Hunter's crusade to save books from Amazon
Andy Hunter is the CEO of Bookshop.org, a website he launched in 2020 that lets local bookshops sell all over the country. He always meant it to compete directly with Amazon, and the timing of that la...
3 Feb 20251h 6min

DeepSeek, Stargate, and the new AI arms race
Today, we’re talking about DeepSeek, and how the open source AI model built by a Chinese startup has completely upended the conventional wisdom around chatbots, what they can do, and how much they sho...
30 Jan 202529min

How Ciena keeps the internet online, with CEO Gary Smith
Today, I’m talking with Gary Smith, CEO of the networking company Ciena. You probably aren’t familiar with Ciena — the company isn’t really a household name. But every internet user has relied on the ...
27 Jan 20251h 13min






















