Bitcoin is still the future of payments, says Lightspark CEO David Marcus
We’ve got a special episode with Alex Heath, deputy editor at The Verge and a familiar host for Decoder listeners, and David Marcus, the CEO of Lightspark. That’s a company that just launched a servic...
25 Apr 202350min
Brightdrop isn’t just selling electric vans — it's redesigning delivery
Travis Katz is the CEO of BrightDrop, a subsidiary of GM that makes electrified delivery vans with an eye toward rebooting all of how delivery works. BrightDrop has pretty big partnerships already, wi...
18 Apr 20231h 11min
Is Substack Notes a ‘Twitter clone’? We asked CEO Chris Best.
It is fair to say that Substack has had a dramatic week and a half or so, and I talked to their CEO Chris Best about it. The company announced a new feature called Substack Notes, which looks quite a ...
13 Apr 20231h 8min
Watching Silicon Valley Bank melt down from the front row with Brex CEO Henrique Dubugras
Brex CEO Henrique Dubugras found himself playing an important role during the Silicon Valley Bank collapse. Brex is what you might call a neobank — not a traditional bank but rather a financial servic...
4 Apr 20231h 2min
The surprisingly complex business of toys, with Hasbro CEO Chris Cocks
Chris Cocks is the CEO of Hasbro, a company that just turned 100 this year. Hasbro is a huge company, making everything from Transformers to Lincoln Logs to My Little Pony and Monopoly. It also makes ...
31 Mars 20231h 10min
Can Mastodon seize the moment from Twitter?
Today I’m talking to Mastodon CEO Eugen Rochko. Mastodon is the open-source, decentralized competitor to Twitter, and it’s where a lot of Twitter users have gone in this, our post-Elon era. The idea i...
28 Mars 20231h 16min
How to play the long game, with New York Times CEO Meredith Kopit Levien
Meredith Kopit Levien is the CEO of The New York Times, which is perhaps the most famous journalism organization in the world, and certainly one of America’s most complicated companies. The Times is ...
23 Mars 20231h 1min
Taylor Swift vs. Ronald Reagan: The Ticketmaster story
This special episode dives deep on Taylor Swift, Ticketmaster, and how a handful of policy changes in the 1980s led to one firm so thoroughly dominating the live events business in the United States t...
21 Mars 202331min
