Waymo co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana on how to get self-driving taxis to the mall
Waymo is working on self-driving taxis. Which is a huge deal. Ridesharing apps like Uber and Lyft have remade cities, allowed people to give up their cars, and generally connected the buttons you push...
5 Okt 202134min
John Carreyrou’s final chapter on the Theranos scandal
Nilay Patel talks to John Carreyrou about his reporting on Theranos from his Wall Street Journal articles that broke the scandal in 2015 to his podcast covering the trial of Elizabeth Holmes today. L...
28 Sep 20211h
How F*ck You Pay Me is empowering creators
We talk a lot about the creator economy here on Decoder and one thing we’ve learned from all those conversations is that the creator economy is a market just like any other, with supply and demand, bu...
21 Sep 20211h 3min
It's brutal out here: Olivia Rodrigo and how the music business makes songwriters fight over credits
This week on Decoder we are doing something a little different. We're talking with Charlie Harding, co-host of the podcast Switched on Pop a podcast about pop music, about the state of the music indus...
15 Sep 20211h 3min
How Slack changed Apple’s employee culture, with Zoë Schiffer
Apple has had a lot going on lately: we did a whole episode about the controversial child protection photo scanning features, which have now been delayed. A law in South Korea might force the company ...
7 Sep 20211h 4min
Everything you need to know about the global chip shortage
Since the beginning of the pandemic, the demand for microchips has far exceeded supply, causing problems in every industry that relies on computers. And if you’re a Decoder listener, you know that tha...
31 Aug 20211h 4min
The quirks and features of YouTube car reviews with Doug DeMuro
Nilay Patel talks with Doug DeMuro, who reviews cars on YouTube for almost 10 years. Nilay and Doug talk about the economics of YouTube, how Doug feels about the platform, and about the new company he...
24 Aug 20211h 16min
Meet the self-driving brains working with Ford and Volkswagen
Today I'm talking to Bryan Salesky, the cofounder and CEO of Argo AI, a startup that's trying to build the tech stack for self-driving cars. Argo just launched a small fleet of robotaxis in Miami and ...
17 Aug 20211h 4min
