Why Sen. Brian Schatz thinks child safety bills can trump the First Amendment
Today, I’m talking with Senator Brian Schatz, of Hawaii. We joke that Decoder is ultimately a show about org charts, but there’s a lot of truth to it. We talked about the separate offices he has to ba...
30 Jan 20241h 9min
Rep. Ro Khanna on what it will take for Congress to regulate AI, privacy, and social media
Today, I’m talking with Representative Ro Khanna, a Democrat from California. He’s been in Congress for eight years now, representing California’s 17th District, which is arguably the highest-tech dis...
23 Jan 202454min
How Adobe is managing the AI copyright dilemma, with general counsel Dana Rao
Today, I'm talking to Dana Rao, who is General Counsel and Chief Trust Officer at Adobe. Now, if you're a longtime Decoder listener, you know that I have always been fascinated with Adobe, which I thi...
9 Jan 20241h 25min
How Donald Trump and Elon Musk killed Twitter, with Marty Baron and Zoe Schiffer
2023 will go down as the year that Elon Musk killed Twitter. First he did it in a big way, by buying the company, firing most of the employees, and destabilizing the platform; then he did it in a smal...
21 Dec 202339min
Why Flexport CEO Ryan Petersen took his company back
Ryan Petersen is the founder and CEO of Flexport, which makes software to optimize shipping everything from huge containers to ecommerce deliveries. It’s a fascinating company; we had Ryan on to expla...
19 Dec 20231h 6min
USDS head Mina Hsiang wants Big Tech’s best minds to help fix the government
The US Digital Service has a fascinating structure: it comprises nearly 250 people, all of whom serve two-year stints developing apps, improving websites, and streamlining government services. You cou...
12 Dec 20231h 4min
IBM's Jerry Chow explains the next phase of quantum computing
IBM made some announcements this week about its plans for the next ten years of quantum computing: there are new chips, new computers, and new APIs. Quantum computers could in theory entirely revoluti...
5 Dec 202355min
Wix CEO Avishai Abrahami isn’t worried AI will kill the web
Today I’m talking with Avishai Abrahami, the CEO of Wix. You might know Wix as a website builder. It’s a competitor to WordPress and Squarespace. Tons of sites across the web run on Wix. But the web i...
28 Nov 20231h 11min
