How Logitech bet big on work from home
Logitech is one of those ubiquitous companies — it’s been around since 1981, selling all kinds of important things that connect to computers of all shapes and sizes: mice, keyboards, cases, cameras, y...
21 Dec 202158min
Can we regulate social media without breaking the First Amendment?
So today I’m talking to Jameel Jaffer, executive director of the The Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, about one of the hardest problems at the intersection of tech and policy r...
16 Dec 202145min
The metaverse is already here — and it’s full of Pokemon, says Niantic CEO John Hanke
John Hanke is the CEO of Niantic, a company that makes the wildly popular Pokemon Go mobile game in partnership with Nintendo and the Pokémon company. Pokemon Go, and its predecessor Ingress, are now ...
14 Dec 20211h 6min
From a meme to $47 million: ConstitutionDAO, crypto, and the future of crowdfunding
Jonah Erlich is one of the core members of a group called ConstitutionDAO, a group that raised $47 Million to try to buy one of the original copies of the United States Constitution at an auction held...
7 Dec 20211h 4min
How an Excel TikToker manifested her way to making six figures a day
Kat Norton is a Microsoft Excel influencer. She has over a million followers on TikTok and Instagram, where she goes by the name Miss Excel, and she’s leveraged that into a software training business ...
30 Nov 202150min
Why the future of work is the future of travel, with Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky
Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky prides himself on thinking very differently than other CEOs, and his answers to the Decoder questions about how he structures and manages his company were almost always the opp...
16 Nov 20211h 11min
Why charging phones is such a complex business, with Anker CEO Steven Yang
Nilay Patel talks to Steven Yang, the CEO and founder of Anker Innovations. The conversation covers the full stack of Decoder topics: taking bets on new tech like gallium nitride, building a direct-to...
9 Nov 20211h 2min
The secrets of the first real smartphone, with Dieter Bohn
Welcome to a special Thursday edition of Decoder. You may have read on the site that Verge executive editor Dieter Bohn has been working on a documentary called Springboard: the secret history of the ...
4 Nov 202121min
