How HBO’s creatives survived corporate chaos
HBO started as an experiment. It was a way to get people to switch from getting TV over broadcast antennas to cable by offering events you’d otherwise need tickets to see: boxing, plays, movies. That’...
7 Feb 20231h 6min
Inside the global battle over chip manufacturing
A few weeks ago, President Biden was in the Netherlands, where he asked the Dutch government to restrict export from a company called ASML to China. ASML is the only company in the world that makes a ...
31 Jan 202351min
Taylor Swift and the music industry's next $20
I have this theory that music is usually about five years ahead of the rest of media in terms of its relationship to tech—whether that’s new formats based on new tech, like vinyl to CDs; new business ...
17 Jan 20231h 21min
Breaking free from big tech and big content with authors Cory Doctorow and Rebecca Giblin
Last year I spoke with Cory Doctorow and Rebecca Giblin about their new book, Chokepoint Capitalism. It’s a book about artists and technology and platforms, and how different kinds of distribution and...
10 Jan 20231h 28min
‘We might be wrong, but we’re not confused’: how Tomer Cohen, chief product officer at LinkedIn, figures out what works best
Tomer Cohen is the chief product officer at LinkedIn, and actually, I talked to Tomer twice. Here’s a little secret about Decoder: we do the interviews, and then often, the guest and I just keep chatt...
20 Dec 20221h 16min
How to buy a social network, with Tumblr CEO Matt Mullenweg
We have to talk about Twitter, right? Elon Musk bought it. He’s making all these changes, and he’s realizing that content moderation decisions are quite complicated, especially when the stakes are hig...
13 Dec 20221h 40min
Disney’s CEO drama explained, with Julia Alexander
Today, we need to talk about Bob. Two Bobs, actually: Bob Iger, the former and now current CEO of Disney, and Bob Chapek, the man Iger handpicked as his replacement, who flamed out and was fired by th...
6 Dec 20221h
How Bose compete with AirPods — and why it’s in more cars than ever, with CEO Lila Snyder
Bose is one of the most recognizable audio brands in the world: it was famous for the Wave radio in the 80s, it invented noise cancellation, you can see its logo on NFL sidelines every Sunday, and of ...
29 Nov 20221h 16min
