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Land of the Giants: Facebook gets a facelift
14 juli 2022 · 29 min
This week, we're sharing the first episode of Land of the Giants: The Facebook/ Meta Disruption. Long before Mark Zuckerberg renamed Facebook Meta and made an unprecedented pivot into the metaverse, he invented a feature that turned Facebook into a social network behemoth. The News Feed, which put your friends’ status updates onto your homepage, changed the way we interact online. It was a strong statement of Zuckerberg’s values: that connecting, and sharing, at scale would be de-facto good for the world. It was also his first public controversy. Follow Land of the Giants to get new episodes every Wednesday.
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How arson led to a culture reboot at Traeger, with CEO Jeremy Andrus
4 juli 2022 · 1 uur 15 min
Happy Fourth of July to our listeners in the States. Decoder is only a year old, but we’ve decided a Decoder tradition is that every summer, we’re going to do an episode about the outdoor grill industry, which is gigantic and growing.
Last year, I talked to Roger Dahle, the CEO of Blackstone Products, a griddle company that blew up on TikTok and actually went public a few months after we talked.
This year, I’m talking to Jeremy Andrus, the CEO of Traeger, which makes beloved wood pellet smokers with all sorts of features — the high-end models even have cloud connectivity so you can control them from your phone. Traeger also recently went public; the company says it will book between $800–850 million in revenue this year.
The Traeger story is fascinating: the company was around for 27 years and not growing very much when Jeremy bought it with the help of a private equity firm and became the CEO. He had no background in cooking; he had previously been CEO of Skullcandy, the headphone brand. His early run as CEO of Traeger was a bit of a nightmare, culminating in an arson of a truck at one of Traeger’s warehouses. Jeremy responded by cleaning house, replacing most of the team, and moving the company from Oregon to Utah.
Since then, Traeger has grown its revenue by 10 times and hopes to close in on a billion dollars in revenue soon. But, it has all the challenges that come along with shipping big, heavy hardware products through the supply chain crisis, looming recession, and changing consumer behavior as one version of the pandemic seems to be ending and people are spending their money on travel instead of home goods. Jeremy was game to talk about all of that; we really got into it. Lees meerLinks:
How Traeger's CEO Cleaned Up a Toxic Culture
Jeremy Andrus Found Success With Skullcandy. Now He Hopes To Do It Again With Traeger Grills.
Traeger buys wireless thermometer company Meater
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TSA’s chief innovation officer on surveillance, security lines, and surrendering to PreCheck
29 juni 2022 · 1 uur 11 min
I’m old enough to remember what it was like to fly before 9/11 — there were no TSA lines, there was no PreCheck, and there certainly wasn’t any requirement to take off your shoes. In fact, there wasn’t any TSA at all. Lees meer
But 9/11 radically changed the way we move through an airport. The formation of the new Department of Homeland Security and the new Transportation Security Administration led to much more rigorous and invasive security measures for travelers trying to catch their flight.
This year is the 20th anniversary of the Department of Homeland Security and the TSA, and I think it’s safe to say that nobody enjoys waiting in the airport security line. And in the post-9/11 world, things like PreCheck are the great innovation of the department.
At least according to Dan McCoy, who is the TSA’s chief innovation officer, who told me that PreCheck is “a hallmark government innovation program.”
But what do programs like PreCheck and the larger surveillance apparatus that theoretically keep us safe mean for the choices we make? What do we give up to get into the shorter security line, and how comfortable should we be about that?
This week, The Verge launches Homeland, our special series about the enormous influence of the Department of Homeland Security and how it has dramatically changed our country’s relationship with technology, surveillance, and immigration. So we have a special episode of Decoder with Dan McCoy to see where the TSA fits into that picture.
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https://www.theverge.com/e/22945989Credits:
Decoder is a production of The Verge, and part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.
Today’s episode was produced by Creighton DeSimone and Jackie McDermott and it was edited by Callie Wright.
The Decoder music is by Breakmaster Cylinder. Our Sr Audio Director is Andrew Marino and our Executive Producer is Eleanor Donovan.
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How Mercedes-Benz CEO Ola Källenius is refocusing for an electric future
21 juni 2022 · 1 uur 6 min
Mercedes-Benz CEO Ola Källenius became CEO in 2019 but has been working for Mercedes since 1993 in almost every part of the company. During that period, Mercedes spent time getting a lot bigger; the company famously merged with Chrysler for a time, forming a giant called DaimlerChrysler. But, over the past few years, it’s actually been getting much smaller and more focused. The Chrysler deal was undone and, just recently, Ola spun off the truck division into its own public company called Daimler Truck, leaving Mercedes-Benz to stand alone as a premium car brand.
Car companies are either consolidating into giant conglomerates like Stellantis or shrinking and focusing like Mercedes. A lot of that is driven by the huge shift to electric vehicles and then, on top of that, to cars essentially becoming rolling computers. You’ll hear Ola refer to cars as “digital products” a lot — and to Mercedes itself as a tech company. (Actually, he says it’s a luxury and tech company.)
Mercedes now has two new EVs, the EQS and the EQE, both of which have massive infotainment screens running Mercedes’ proprietary MBUX system, which even has its own voice assistant called Hey Mercedes. I had to ask Ola about Apple’s recent announcement that the next version of CarPlay would be able to take over every display in the car, including the instrument cluster. Apple showed a Mercedes logo on a slide during that presentation — so, is Ola ready to hand over his UI to Cupertino?
Let’s find out. Ola Källenius, CEO of Mercedes-Benz. Here we go. Lees meerLinks:
Mercedes-Benz Vision EQXX concept car traveled over 1,000 km on a single charge
Mercedes-Benz unveils sporty, ultra-long-range vision EQXX electric concept car
The six-figure Mercedes-Benz EQS gets a 350-mile range rating
Daimler AG to rebrand as Mercedes-Benz on Feb. 1
Big automakers are breaking themselves apart to compete with Silicon Valley
Mercedes-Benz reveals an electric G-Wagen concept for the futureTranscript:
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How fandom built the internet as we know it, with Kaitlyn Tiffany
14 juni 2022 · 1 uur 5 min
The Verge is all about how technology make us feel. Our screens and our systems aren’t inert, or neutral – they create emotions, sometimes the strongest emotions anyone actually feels in their day to day lives. I’ve been thinking about that a lot ever since I read a new book called Everything I Need I Get From You: How Fangirls Created the Internet by Kaitlyn Tiffany, who was a culture reporter at The Verge several years ago. The thesis of her book is that online fandom, specifically the hardcore fans of the British boy band One Direction, created much of the online culture we live in today on social platforms. And her bigger thesis is that fandom overall is a cultural and political force that can’t be ignored; it shapes elections, it drives cultural conversation, it can bring joy to people who feel lonely, and it can result in dramatic harassment campaigns when fans turn on someone. Lees meer
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Kaitlyn Tiffany Verge Archive
One Direction PlaylistTranscript:
https://www.theverge.com/e/22930314Credits:
Decoder is a production of The Verge, and part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.
Today’s episode was produced by Creighton DeSimone and Jackie McDermott and it was edited by Callie Wright.
The Decoder music is by Breakmaster Cylinder. Our Sr Audio Director is Andrew Marino and our Executive Producer is Eleanor Donovan.
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What unions could mean for Apple with Zoe Schiffer
6 juni 2022 · 1 uur 5 min
Today is Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference, or WWDC. It’s one of the biggest events of the year for Apple, one of the most important companies in the world. In fact, Apple is the most valuable company in the world, and it posted $18 billion in net profits in its first quarter — the most quarterly profit of any public company in history.
So, as we go into another huge Apple event, I wanted to have Verge labor reporter Zoe Schiffer on to talk about something else that’s happening inside Apple: a brewing push by its retail employees to unionize, store by store, because they’re unhappy with their pay and working conditions. Zoe is really well-sourced; she has an inside look at this fight. So, she helps us explain how this all works and what it might mean. Lees meerLinks:
Fired #AppleToo organizer files labor charge against the company
Apple’s frontline employees are struggling to survive
Apple hires anti-union lawyers in escalating union fight
This is what Apple retail employees in Atlanta are fighting for
First US Apple Store union election set for June 2nd in Atlanta
Apple accused of union busting in new labor board filingTranscript:
https://www.theverge.com/e/22917648Credits:
Decoder is a production of The Verge, and part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.
Today’s episode was produced by Creighton DeSimone and Jackie McDermott and it was edited by Callie Wright.
The Decoder music is by Breakmaster Cylinder. Our Sr Audio Director is Andrew Marino and our Executive Producer is Eleanor Donovan.
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How Ukraine’s wide use of cryptocurrency is playing out during the war
24 mei 2022 · 1 uur 8 min
Michael is president of the Blockchain Association of Ukraine and founder of the Kuna Exchange, which lets people buy cryptocurrency and swap between them. Earlier this year, the Ukrainian government set up wallets on Kuna and other exchanges to accept donations to the war effort in crypto; in April, Bloomberg reported it had received over $60 million in crypto donations.
What’s more, earlier this year Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy also signed a virtual assets bill into law, which will recognize cryptocurrency as an asset in Ukraine when the war is over. As president of the Blockchain Association, Michael lobbied for this law, which you’ll hear him talk about — especially in the context of how little faith he has in the banking system. He says several times that, even before the war, it couldn’t be trusted and that people were already using a combination of crypto and dollars for large transactions instead of Ukraine’s actual currency, which is called the hryvnia. Lees meerLinks:
Ukraine Readies NFT Sales as Crypto Donations Top $60 Million
Ukraine's Zelenskyy Signs Virtual Assets Bill Into Law, Legalizing Crypto
Crypto Goes to War in Ukraine
Blockchain Association of Ukraine
Russian tycoon Tinkov sells stake in TCS Group to billionaire Potanin
The Bitcoin Boom
Cypriot financial crisis
The 2020 Global Crypto Adoption Index: Cryptocurrency is a Global PhenomenonTranscript:
https://www.theverge.com/e/22902506Credits:
Decoder is a production of The Verge, and part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.
Today’s episode was produced by Creighton DeSimone and Jackie McDermott. It was researched by Liz Lian and it was edited by Callie Wright.
The Decoder music is by Breakmaster Cylinder. Our Sr Audio Director is Andrew Marino and our Executive Producer is Eleanor Donovan.
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The videos that don’t work on YouTube and the future of the creator business, with Nebula CEO Dave Wiskus
17 mei 2022 · 1 uur 14 min
One of our recurring jokes at The Verge is that every YouTuber eventually makes a video where they talk about how mad they are at YouTube. Whether it’s demonetization or copyright strikes or just the algorithm changing, YouTubers have to contend with a big platform that has a lot of power over their business, and they often don’t have the leverage to push back.
On this episode of Decoder, I’m talking to Dave Wiskus, the CEO of two really interesting companies: one is called Standard, which is a management company for YouTubers, and the other is Nebula, an alternative paid streaming platform where creators can post videos, take a direct cut of the revenue, and generally fund work that might get lost on YouTube.
What really stood out to me here is that Dave is in the business of making things: this conversation was really grounded in the reality of the creator business as it exists today and how that real business can support real people. You’ll hear it when we talk about Web3 and NFTs a little bit — Dave just thinks that stuff is bullshit, and he says so because it’s not a business that exists now. That’s an important dynamic to think about — and one for more platforms to take seriously. Lees meerLinks:
Dave's subscriber tweet
NebulaTranscript:
https://www.theverge.com/e/22840704Credits:
Decoder is a production of The Verge, and part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.
Today’s episode was produced by Creighton DeSimone and Jackie McDermott and it was edited by Callie Wright.
The Decoder music is by Breakmaster Cylinder. Our Sr Audio Director is Andrew Marino and our Executive Producer is Eleanor Donovan.
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Vergecast: Google CEO Sundar Pichai on Google I/O 2022
13 mei 2022 · 33 min
Google I/O was this week and Nilay Patel and David Pierce had a chance to sit down with Google CEO Sundar Pichai to talk about the event and the products that were announced. This interview was recorded for The Vergecast, another podcast from The Verge. You can listen to The Vergecast wherever you get your podcasts – or just click here. Lees meer
We hope you enjoyed the interview. Decoder will be back again on Tuesday with an all new episode. See you then.
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UiPath CEO Daniel Dines thinks automation can fight the great resignation
10 mei 2022 · 1 uur 8 min
Today Nilay Patel talking to Daniel Dines, the founder and CEO of UiPath, one of the biggest automation companies in the world. But not the automation you might think; UiPath sells software automation, or what consultants call “robotic process automation” so they can sound fancy and charge higher fees. UiPath and other software automation companies have a different approach to solving issues with your legacy software: just hire another computer to use software for you. Seriously: UiPath uses computer vision to literally look at what’s on a screen, and then uses a virtual mouse and keyboard to click around and do things in apps like Excel and Salesforce. The automations can be mundane, like generating lists of people to contact from public records, or intensely complicated: UiPath can actually monitor how different software is used throughout a company and suggest automations. Huge companies like Uber, Facebook, Spotify, and Google all use UIPath. Lees meer
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The robots are coming for your office
UiPath AI Computer VisionTranscript:
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Decoder is a production of The Verge, and part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.
Today’s episode was produced by Creighton DeSimone and Jackie McDermott and it was edited by Callie Wright.
The Decoder music is by Breakmaster Cylinder. Our Sr Audio Director is Andrew Marino and our Executive Producer is Eleanor Donovan.
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How big companies kill ideas — and how to fight back, with Tony Fadell
3 mei 2022 · 1 uur 15 min
Tony Fadell was instrumental in the development of the iPod and iPhone at Apple and then co-founded Nest Labs, which kicked off the consumer smart home market with its smart thermostat in 2011. Tony sold Nest to Google for $3.2 billion in 2014 and eventually left Google. He now runs an investment company called Future Shape. Lees meer
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Inside the Nest: iPod creator Tony Fadell wants to reinvent the thermostat
General Magic - Trailer
Inside Facebook’s metaverse for work
Silicon Graphics
Google is reorganizing and Sundar Pichai will become new CEO
Fire drill: can Tony Fadell and Nest build a better smoke detector?
Google purchases Nest for $3.2 billion
Twitter accepts buyout, giving Elon Musk total control of the company
Nest is rejoining Google to better compete with Amazon and Apple
Apple Music Event 2005 - Motorola Rokr E1 / iTunes Phone
Activision Blizzard hit with another sexual harassment lawsuit
Nest buying video-monitoring startup Dropcam for $555 million
What matters about Matter, the new smart home standard
ZIGBEE ON MARS!Directory:
Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple
Andy Grove, former CEO of Intel
Pat Gelsinger, current CEO of Intel
Sundar Pichai, current CEO of Alphabet
Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, SpaceX, and The Boring Company
Jeff Williams, COO of Apple
Matt Rogers, Nest co-founder
Jeff Robbin, VP of consumer applications at Apple
Steve Hoteling, former CEO gesture recognition company Finger Works
Jon Rubinstein, senior VP of the iPod division at Apple
Steve Sakomen, hardware engineer and executive at Apple
Avie Tavanian, chief software technology officer at Apple
Scott Forstall, senior VP of iOS software, Apple
Jony Ive, chief design officer, AppleTranscript:
https://www.theverge.com/e/22817673Credits:
Decoder is a production of The Verge, and part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.
Today’s episode was produced by Creighton DeSimone and Jackie McDermott and it was edited by Callie Wright.
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The executive director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation on government surveillance, Elon Musk, and free speech
26 april 2022 · 51 min
Cindy Cohn is the executive Director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, or EFF. If you’re an internet user of a certain age like me, you know the EFF as the premiere civil liberties group for the internet. The EFF has fought pitched battles against things like government surveillance, digital rights management for music and movies, and government speech regulations that would violate the First Amendment. These fights were important, and shaped the internet as we know it today. Lees meer
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Electronic Frontier Foundation
How to fix the Internet: Podcast by the EFF
How the EU is fighting tech giants with Margrethe Vestager
Apple pushes back on iPhone order, says FBI is seeking ‘dangerous power'
Here’s why Apple’s new child safety features are so controversial
Viacom vs YouTube
Texas passes law that bans kicking people off social media based on ‘viewpoint’
Santa Clara Principles
Carterfone
Decoder interview with YouTube chief product officer Neal Mohan
Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
Facebook v. Power VenturesTranscript:
https://www.theverge.com/e/22805290Credits:
Decoder is a production of The Verge, and part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.
Today’s episode was produced by Creighton DeSimone and Jackie McDermott and it was edited by Callie Wright.
The Decoder music is by Breakmaster Cylinder. Our Sr Audio Director is Andrew Marino and our Executive Producer is Eleanor Donovan.
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A former Foxconn executive tries to explain what went wrong in Wisconsin
19 april 2022 · 1 uur 8 min
Alan Yeung is a professor of entrepreneurship at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the former head of the Foxconn project in Wisconsin. If you don’t quite remember, the Foxconn project in Wisconsin was announced in 2017 as a massive deal to build the first “Generation 10.5” LCD factory in North America. It was also one of the first big moments in the Trump presidency, complete with President Trump holding a golden shovel at a lavish groundbreaking ceremony where he said the factory would be “the eighth wonder of the world.”
But it turned out that while Foxconn was putting on a great show, no LCD factory was actually getting built, even though Foxconn kept saying it was happening. Lees meerLinks
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The award winning story from Josh Dzieza - The 8th wonder of the worldWisconsin's $4.1 billion Foxconn factory boondoggle
Foxconn’s $100M deal with the University of Wisconsin has students worried
What a new governor means for Wisconsin’s controversial Foxconn factory
Foxconn and the village: the $10B factory deal that turned one small Wisconsin town upside down
No one seems to know what Foxconn is doing in Wisconsin
After a ‘personal conversation’ with Trump, Foxconn says it will build a factory in Wisconsin after all
Foxconn is confusing the hell out of Wisconsin
Foxconn promised a ‘correction’ about empty buildings in Wisconsin two weeks ago, and it hasn’t said a word since
With Foxconn chief’s Trump meeting, the Wisconsin project gets even more political
One month ago, Foxconn said its innovation centers weren’t empty — they still are
Foxconn’s delays might finally give Wisconsin the upper hand
One year after Trump’s Foxconn groundbreaking, there is almost nothing to show for it
Even fixing Wisconsin’s Foxconn deal won’t fix it, says state-requested report
Foxconn’s first announced product for its Wisconsin factory is an airport coffee robot
Foxconn releases and immediately cancels plans for a giant dome in Wisconsin
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Chris Dixon thinks web3 is the future of the internet. Is it?
12 april 2022 · 1 uur 20 min
Chris Dixon leads crypto investing at the storied Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, or a16z. He’s responsible for leading funding rounds for Coinbase, which went public about a year ago, the NFT marketplace OpenSea, and Yuga Labs, which is behind the Bored Ape Yacht Club among others. He is also a prolific user of Twitter, where he posts lengthy threads about crypto and web3. He is at once one of the biggest investors in the space, and its biggest booster. Lees meer
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1000 True Fans
My first impressions of web3
A comprehensive breakdown of the Epic v. Apple ruling
SEC v Howey Co.Transcript
https://www.theverge.com/e/22784768Credits:
Decoder is a production of The Verge, and part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.
Today’s episode was produced by Creighton DeSimone and Jackie McDermott and it was edited by Callie Wright.
The Decoder music is by Breakmaster Cylinder. Our Sr Audio Director is Andrew Marino and our Executive Producer is Eleanor Donovan.
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Is streaming just becoming cable again? Julia Alexander thinks so
5 april 2022 · 1 uur 21 min
Julia Alexander was the perfect guest to come on our show and talk about the state of the streaming industry – we’re a couple years into the huge shift to streaming entertainment in Hollywood, and it’s clear the streamers are here to stay. Apple just won the Oscar for Best Picture for a film it bought out of Sundance called Coda. Amazon now owns MGM. Netflix is investing in games and hinting at advertising for the first time. One idea that comes up on Decoder again and again is that how we distribute media has a huge influence on the media itself – and we talked about what kinds of movies and shows are getting made now that the streamers are here to stay. Lees meer
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Downstream Podcast
‘Extremely awkward’: Bob Chapek and Bob Iger had a falling out, they rarely talk — and the rift looms over Disney’s future
Pixar staff speaks out against Disney moving its films to streaming only: ‘It’s hard to grasp’
HBO Max and Discovery Plus will merge into one app
Apple and Major League Baseball to offer “Friday Night Baseball”
Yankees will have 21 games only available on Amazon Prime
Prime Video unveils logo for 'Thursday Night Football'
CNN Plus launches with Reddit-like interactive Q&AsTranscript:
https://www.theverge.com/e/22774600Credits:
Decoder is a production of The Verge, and part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.
Today’s episode was produced by Creighton DeSimone and Jackie McDermott and it was edited by Callie Wright.
The Decoder music is by Breakmaster Cylinder. Our Sr Audio Director is Andrew Marino and our Executive Producer is Eleanor Donovan.
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Steve Aoki on why he’s a ‘crypto believer’
29 maart 2022 · 1 uur 2 min
For this episode, I’m talking to Steve Aoki. He is a superstar DJ, producer, record label owner, and prolific entrepreneur. Steve has been part of the music industry since 1996, so he’s been through a lot of these big tech transitions, and now he’s heavily invested in another, with Web3, the Aokiverse. It involves selling tokens and NFTs and, over time, is meant to be part of the metaverse. Because, of course. Lees meer
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Aokiverse
Dim Mak
Travel Advice from Steve Aoki, Who Throws Cake at 2,500 People a YearTranscript
https://www.theverge.com/e/22763374Credits
Decoder is a production of The Verge, and part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.
Today’s episode was produced by Creighton DeSimone and Jackie McDermott. Additional research was done by Liz Lian and it was edited by Callie Wright.
The Decoder music is by Breakmaster Cylinder. Our Sr Audio Director is Andrew Marino and our Executive Producer is Eleanor Donovan.
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How Robinhood is building the future of investing, with chief product officer Aparna Chennapragada
22 maart 2022 · 1 uur 6 min
Aparna Chennapragada is the chief product officer at Robinhood, the popular stock and crypto trading app. And we have some news to discuss: Robinhood is launching a new cash card today that allows people to spend money directly out of their Robinhood account and set up various plans to automatically invest by rounding up purchase amounts to the nearest dollar and putting the difference in various investments. Lees meer
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How r/wallstreetbets gamed the stock of GameStop
The chicken and the pig
Google is reportedly removing Google Now Launcher from the Play Store
Robinhood Snacks
Robinhood buys Say Technologies for $140M to improve shareholder-company relationsTranscript:
https://www.theverge.com/e/22753372Credits:
Decoder is a production of The Verge, and part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.
Today’s episode was produced by Creighton DeSimone and Jackie McDermott and it was edited by Callie Wright.
The Decoder music is by Breakmaster Cylinder. Our Sr Audio Director is Andrew Marino and our Executive Producer is Eleanor Donovan.
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How the EU is fighting tech giants with Margrethe Vestager
17 maart 2022 · 34 min
Margrethe Vestager is one of the driving forces behind tech regulation worldwide. Appointed as the European Commission’s Commissioner of Competition in 2014 and an executive vice president in 2019, she’s pursued antitrust cases against Apple, Google, Meta (formerly Facebook), and Amazon among others. Now, with the EU on the verge of implementing a new antitrust law called the Digital Markets Act, Vestager is planning her next moves. Lees meer
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EU's Vestager says analysing metaverse ahead of possible regulatory action
The Digital Markets Act: ensuring fair and open digital marketsTranscript:
https://www.theverge.com/e/22745302Credits:
Decoder is a production of The Verge, and part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.
Today’s episode was produced by Creighton DeSimone and Jackie McDermott and it was edited by Callie Wright.
The Decoder music is by Breakmaster Cylinder. Our Sr Audio Director is Andrew Marino and our Executive Producer is Eleanor Donovan.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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How WordPress and Tumblr are keeping the internet weird, with Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg
15 maart 2022 · 1 uur 16 min
Matt Mullenweg is the CEO of Automattic, the company that owns WordPress.com, which he co-founded, and Tumblr, the irrepressible social network it acquired from the wreckage of AOL, Yahoo, and Verizon. Matt’s point of view is that the world is better off when the web is open and fun, and Automattic builds and acquires products that help that goal along. Lees meer
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Exclusive: Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg on what’s next for Tumblr
Verizon is selling Tumblr to WordPress’ owner
Automattic, owner of Tumblr and WordPress.com, buys podcast app Pocket Casts
Gutenberg
Tumblr Shop
Why Apple’s new privacy feature is such a big deal
Taylor Swift's Tumblr
Tumblr will ban all adult content on December 17th
How Tumblr Became Popular for Being Obsolete
Basecamp CTO David Heinemeier Hansson and Rep. David Cicilline on Apple's monopolistic app store fees
Inside Sonos' decision to sue Google - and how it won
After the porn ban, Tumblr users have ditched the platform as promised
The Trauma Floor: The secret lives of Facebook moderators in America
Vox Media adds The Coral ProjectTranscript:
https://www.theverge.com/e/22741898Credits:
Decoder is a production of The Verge, and part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.
Today’s episode was produced by Creighton DeSimone and Jackie McDermott. Research was done by Liz Lian. It was edited by Callie Wright.
The Decoder music is by Breakmaster Cylinder. Our Sr Audio Director is Andrew Marino and our Executive Producer is Eleanor Donovan.
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The future of computers is only $4 away, with Raspberry Pi CEO Eben Upton
8 maart 2022 · 1 uur 9 min
Today I’m talking to Eben Upton, the CEO of Raspberry Pi, a fascinating company that makes beloved tiny hackable computers that are extremely inexpensive. They’re also some of the only readily available computers that are designed to be tinkered with. They’re not heavily locked down, and using one requires learning how a computer actually works. And that’s the entire point: Eben told me the idea of the Raspberry Pi was to create a product that enticed kids into studying computer science at the University of Cambridge. They’ve more than achieved that goal. Seven million Raspberry Pi units were sold last year, and there’s talk of the company going public. Lees meer
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Raspberry Pi
The business of finding a better job, with Career Karma CEO Ruben Harris
How Artificial Intelligence is Helping Japanese Cucumber FarmersTranscript:
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Decoder is a production of The Verge, and part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.
Today’s episode was produced by Creighton DeSimone and Jackie McDermott and it was edited by Callie Wright.
The Decoder music is by Breakmaster Cylinder. Our Sr Audio Director is Andrew Marino and our Executive Producer is Eleanor Donovan.
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Inside Sonos' decision to sue Google with CEO Patrick Spence and CLO Eddie Lazarus
1 maart 2022 · 1 uur 3 min
This week I sat down with Patrick Spence, the CEO of Sonos, and Eddie Lazarus, his Chief Legal Officer. I wanted both Patrick and Eddie on the show to talk about when a company like Sonos makes the decision to head to the courts and increasingly, Congress. Sonos has long accused other tech giants of stealing its tech, but in 2019 it actually sued Google for patent infringement. Sonos recently won that lawsuit at the US International Trade Commission, which ruled that Google infringed all five patents Sonos brought to court. I wanted to understand how Patrick and Eddie decided to take the risk of a lawsuit here – Sonos claims Google actually infringes over 150 patents, so how did they pick.. Five.. to sue over?
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Sonos sues Google for allegedly stealing smart speaker tech
Sonos CEO will testify to lawmakers after suing Google
Google countersues Sonos for patent infringement
Sonos sues Google for infringing five more wireless audio patents
A judge has ruled that Google infringed on Sonos’ patents
Sonos says Google is blocking it from offering more than one voice assistant at once Lees meerTranscript:
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Today’s episode was produced by Creighton DeSimone and Jackie McDermott and it was edited by Callie Wright.
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Can the law keep up with crypto? With professor Tonya Evans
22 februari 2022 · 1 uur 6 min
I’m going to let you in on a Decoder secret: at the end of last year, I tasked our producers with finding better ways for us to cover crypto and Web 3.0 on Decoder. I don’t think it’s any secret that I’m fairly skeptical of crypto, but I want to come by that skepticism honestly—and on the flip side, I want to make sure to see its opportunities and benefits clearly. We’ve already done episodes on Bitcoin and DAOs, decentralized autonomous organizations, and we’re going to do more episodes as the year goes on.
Today I’m talking to Tonya Evans, a law professor at Penn State Dickinson Law. She teaches IP law, copyright, and blockchain. She also hosts the Tech Intersect podcast, where she covers how law and technology intersect. She has spent a lot of time thinking about crypto assets and how they interact with the law. Tonya’s point of view is that we shouldn’t just abandon many of the legal frameworks we have today—she just wants them to adapt to this new internet. Lees meerLinks:
The counterfeit NFT problem is only getting worse
Instagram says sites need photographers’ permission to embed posts
BlockFi settlement with the SEC
A cringe rapper slash Forbes contributor allegedly found with billions in stolen Bitcoin
Constitution DAO Decoder episode
Alfonso Ribeiro Sues Fortnite Over Use of His Signature Fresh Prince Dance, The Carlton
The ‘Carlton dance’ couldn’t be copyrighted for a Fortnite lawsuit
Adi Robertson's reporting about Spice DAO
Tonya Evans' website, ProfTonyaEvans.com
Tonya Evans on TwitterTranscript:
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Decoder is a production of The Verge, and part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.
Today’s episode was produced by Creighton DeSimone and Jackie McDermott and it was edited by Callie Wright.
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What an NFL coaching scandal can teach tech about diversity
15 februari 2022 · 48 min
Bärí Williams is a legal and operations advisor to tech companies who focuses on AI and diversity. Her credentials are rock solid: Bärí was lead counsel at Facebook working on various projects, including internet connectivity efforts and diversifying the company’s supply chain. After that, Bärí went to work at StubHub, an AI startup studio called All Turtles, and a data and identity analytics company called Bandwagon Fan Club.
But now, she’s independent — a business of one, consulting on operations with a focus on diversity and AI. I was curious why she decided to leave being a tech executive behind and make that shift to diversity work. We talked about that, but our conversation actually started with sports news — NFL news. Lees meerLinks:
Diversity wins: how inclusion matters
Black in tech
The 4 most explosive allegations from Brian Flores’ lawsuit against the NFL
California just made it a lot harder for companies to cover up harassment and abuseTranscript:
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Today’s episode was produced by Creighton DeSimone and Jackie McDermott and it was edited by Callie Wright.
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News with a Capital B: CEO Lauren Williams on why we need news for and by Black people
8 februari 2022 · 55 min
Lauren Williams is the co-founder and CEO of Capital B, a new nonprofit media company dedicated to news for Black audiences. Capital B launched on January 31st, with both a national news site and a local newsroom dedicated to Atlanta – and they plan to expand to more cities over time. Lees meer
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Capital B
Recode Media Podcast
Tired Of The Social Media Rat Race, Journalists Move To Writing Substack NewslettersTranscript:
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Today’s episode was produced by Creighton DeSimone, and Jackie McDermott with and it was edited by Callie Wright.
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The business of finding a better job, with Career Karma CEO Ruben Harris
1 februari 2022 · 1 uur 1 min
It’s an interesting time to talk to someone in the business of helping people get new jobs — we’re still fully in the middle of the pandemic-driven Great Resignation, and a record 4.5 million people quit their jobs in November 2021, and it doesn’t seem to be slowing down. But that’s exactly what Career Karma and CEO Ruben Harris are doing. Lees meer
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Career Karma
A record 4.5 million workers quit their jobs in November
Breaking Into Startups
AT&T’s $1 billion gambit: Retraining nearly half its workforce for jobs of the future
Making uncommon knowledge common
The Great Resignation is accelerating
How an Excel TickToker manifested her way to making six figures a day
Launch HouseTranscript:
https://www.theverge.com/e/22674665Credits:
Decoder is a production of The Verge, and part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.
Today’s episode was produced by Creighton DeSimone, Jackie McDermott, and Liam James. It was edited by Callie Wright.
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7 CEOs and one secretary of Transportation on the future of cars
25 januari 2022 · 1 uur 8 min
Regular listeners of Decoder know car CEOs love coming on the show. There is a lot of change in the car industry, a lot of big ideas about how to manage that change, and a lot of big problems to solve: the transition to electric vehicles, the fact that cars are basically turning into rolling smartphones, how to make self-driving work safely, and more. And, of course, we always end up talking about Tesla — because how can you not? Lees meer
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Luminar CEO Austin Russell
Ford CEO Jim Farley
Argo AI CEO Brian Saleski
Polestar CEO Thomas Ingenlath
Waymo CEO Tekedra Mawakana
Jeep CEO Christian Meunier
Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg
Volkswagen CEO Herbert DiessTranscript of this episode
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Decoder is a production of The Verge, and part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.
Today’s episode was produced by Creighton DeSimone, and Jackie McDermott with and it was edited by Callie Wright.
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Can CEO Herbert Diess reinvent Volkswagen with EVs and software?
18 januari 2022 · 1 uur 14 min
Links
Dieselgate coverage on The Verge
VW vows to build massive electric car charging network across US
Electrify America announces doubling of charging network with 1,800 stations and 10,000 chargers Lees meerTranscript
https://www.theverge.com/e/22652357Credits
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Today’s episode was produced by Creighton DeSimone, and Jackie McDermott with and it was edited by Callie Wright.
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Almost every smartphone has a Qualcomm chip inside. Where does CEO Cristiano Amon go from here?
11 januari 2022 · 57 min
Cristiano Amon is the president and CEO of Qualcomm, and he’s always been a relentless cheerleader for what mobile computing can do for people — especially if that mobile computing is powered by Qualcomm’s chips. Lees meer
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Apple supplier TSMC confirms it’s building an Arizona chip plant
Intel will make Qualcomm chips in new foundry deal
The Verge 5G landing page
Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 chip is here to power the Android flagships of 2022
Qualcomm’s next-gen CPU for PCs will take on Apple’s M-series chips in 2023Transcript:
https://www.theverge.com/e/22640552Credits:
Decoder is a production of The Verge, and part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.
Today’s episode was produced by Creighton DeSimone, and Jackie McDermott with and it was edited by Callie Wright.
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Pete Buttigieg is racing to keep up with self-driving cars
6 januari 2022 · 30 min
In this special, Thursday episode of Decoder, Andrew Hawkins spoke with secretary of transportation Pete Butigieg ahead of his speech at CES 2022.
2021 was an eventful year for Buttigieg, the youngest and arguably the most notable person to take on the role of transportation secretary in many years. Congress passed President Joe Biden’s $1 trillion infrastructure plan, which will provide billions of new funding for the creation of a national network of electric vehicle charging stations. The secretary and Andrew talked about that, about self driving vehicles, and of course, Tesla. Lees meerLinks:
Secretary Pete Buttigieg on the future of transportation
The Verge CES hub
Biden signs $1 trillion infrastructure package into law
The investigation into Tesla Autopilot’s emergency vehicle problem is getting biggerTranscript:
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Decoder is a production of The Verge, and part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.
Today’s episode was produced by Creighton DeSimone, and Jackie McDermott and it was edited by Callie Wright.
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How Logitech bet big on work from home
21 december 2021 · 59 min
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, you name it. Nilay Patel spoke with Logitech CEO Bracken Darrell about how the company met increased demand during the pandemic, whether that changed his plans to shift to a services company, and how the supply chain issues around the world affect his business. They also talked about how he manages Logitech’s relationships with other tech giants like Apple and Amazon.
And we had to talk about the decision to kill the Harmony remote line. Lees meerLinks:
Nilay's interview with Bracken Darrell from 2019
Everything you need to know about the global chip shortage
Why charging phones is such a complex business with Anker CEO Steven Yang
Logitech officially discontinues its Harmony remotes
How an excel TikToker manifested her way to making six figures a day
Logitech is buying Streamlabs for $89 million
Logitech announces cheaper Magic Keyboard alternative for new iPad ProTranscript:
https://www.theverge.com/e/22610722Credits:
Decoder is a production of The Verge, and part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.
Today’s episode was produced by Creighton DeSimone and Jackie McDermott and it was edited by Callie Wright.
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Can we regulate social media without breaking the First Amendment?
16 december 2021 · 45 min
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 right now: the question of how to regulate social media platforms. Everyone seems to think we should do it – Democrats, Republicans – even Facebook is running ads saying it welcomes regulation. It’s weird. But while everyone might agree on the idea, no one agrees on the execution, and the biggest hurdle is the First Amendment.. Lees meer
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Florida governor signs law to block ‘deplatforming’ of Florida politicians
Judge blocks Florida’s social media law
Texas passes law that bans kicking people off social media based on ‘viewpoint’
Federal court blocks Texas law banning ‘viewpoint discrimination’ on social media
Social media companies want to co-opt the First Amendment. Courts shouldn’t let them.
Miami Herald Publishing Company vs. Tornillo
Pacific Gas & Electric Company v. Public Utilities Commission of California
Hurley v. Irish-American Gay, Lesbian Bisexual GroupTranscript:
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Today’s episode was produced by Creighton DeSimone, and Jackie McDermott and it was edited by Callie Wright.
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The metaverse is already here — and it’s full of Pokemon, says Niantic CEO John Hanke
14 december 2021 · 1 uur 6 min
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 the largest and most successful augmented reality games in the industry, which means John has long been at the forefront of what we’ve all started calling the metaverse—digital worlds that interact with the real world. Lots of companies are chasing metaverse hype but John’s been at it for a while, and I wanted to talk about the reality instead of the hype. We also coin the phrase “marketplace of realities.” It’s a ride. Lees meer
Links:
What’s left of Magic Leap?
Microsoft is supplying 120,000 HoloLens-based headsets to the US Army
Snap’s first AR Spectacles are an ambitious, impractical start
Facebook just revealed its new name: Meta
There will never be another Pokémon Go
Pokémon Go is still incredibly relevant
Harry Potter: Wizards Unite is shutting down next year
Springboard: the secret history of the first real smartphone is out now
The best thing to do in VR is work out
NFT's, explained
Pokémon Go creator Niantic is working on AR glasses with QualcommTranscript:
https://www.theverge.com/e/22596531Credits:
Decoder is a production of The Verge, and part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.
Today’s episode was produced by Creighton DeSimone, and Jackie McDermott with research by Liz Lian and it was edited by Callie Wright.
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From a meme to $47 million: ConstitutionDAO, crypto, and the future of crowdfunding
7 december 2021 · 1 uur 5 min
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 by the high-end auction house Sotheby’s. Lees meer
Links:
ConstitutionDAO
Endaoment
Crypto collective raises $27 million to bid for rare copy of US Constitution
ConstitutionDAO loses $43 million auction of rare US Constitution copy
ConstitutionDAO will shut down after losing bid for Constitution
Almost buying a copy of the Constitution is easy, but giving the money back is hard
Code is Law
Ice Bucket Challenge dramatically accelerated the fight against ALS
Iwata Asks: Just Being President Was A Waste!
Succession
Could ConstitutionDAO's PEOPLE token be the next meme coin?Transcript:
https://www.theverge.com/e/22584604Credits:
Decoder is a production of The Verge, and part of the Vox Media Podcast Network. Today’s episode was produced by Creighton DeSimone and Jackie McDermott. We are edited by Callie Wright. Our music is by Breakmaster Cylinder.
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How an Excel TikToker manifested her way to making six figures a day
30 november 2021 · 50 min
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 that is now generating up to six figures of revenue a day. That’s six figures a day. And she’s only been doing this since June 2020. Nilay Patel talks to her about how she built the business, how she uses energetics to go viral, and why her relationship with social media is so different than other creators and influencers, Lees meer
Links:
Excelerator Course
A Microsoft Excel influencer quit her day job and is making 6 figures from her unconventional way of teaching spreadsheet hacks, tips, and tricksTranscript:
https://www.theverge.com/e/22571899Credits:
Decoder is a production of The Verge, and part of the Vox Media Podcast Network. Today’s episode was produced by Creighton DeSimone, and Andrew Marino. And we are edited by Callie Wright. Our music is by Breakmaster Cylinder.
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Why the future of work is the future of travel, with Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky
16 november 2021 · 1 uur 12 min
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 opposite of what I’m used to hearing on the show. Airbnb is pretty much a single team, focused on a single product, and it all rolls up to Brian. That’s very different from most other big companies, which have lots of divisions and overlapping lines of authority.
And Airbnb’s relationship to cities is changing as tourism changes. Airbnb used to be the poster child for a tech company that showed up without permission and fought with regulators, but as the company has grown and the pandemic has changed things, it’s entered what is hopefully a more mature phase — it just came to a deal with New York City after ten years of argument. I asked Brian about that and about what it’s like to run a public company now — the transition from scrappy startup to public company engaged with regulators is a big one.
Of course, I also had to ask about cryptocurrency and the metaverse — does Brian think we’re all going to be visiting virtual NFT museums on vacations in the future? You have to listen and find out.
Okay, Brian Chesky, CEO of Airbnb, here we go. Lees meerLinks:
Can Brian Chesky Save Airbnb?
Jony Ive is bringing his design talents to... Airbnb
Zillow reportedly needs to sell 7,000 houses after it bought too many
City of New York and Airbnb Reach Settlement Agreement
Airbnb hosts discriminate against black guests based on names, study suggestsTranscript:
https://www.theverge.com/e/22547463Credits:
Decoder is a production of The Verge, and part of the Vox Media Podcast Network. Today’s episode was produced by Creighton DeSimone, and Andrew Marino, our research was done by Liz Lian. And we are edited by Callie Wright. Our music is by Breakmaster Cylinder.
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Why charging phones is such a complex business, with Anker CEO Steven Yang
9 november 2021 · 1 uur 3 min
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-consumer business on Amazon, and the complexity of managing the Amazon relationship, regulatory issues, platform fees — you name it. And all from a company that started making phone chargers. Anker is endlessly fascinating. Lees meer
Links:
Anker CEO Steven Yang is all in on USB-C
Amazon-Native Brand Anker Goes Public
EU proposes mandatory USB-C on all devices, including iPhones
Gallium nitride is the silicon of the future
Video: Is gallium nitride the silicon of the future?
Anker MagGo devices snap on for wireless iPhone charging in your car and home
Amazon confirms it removed RavPower, a popular phone battery and charger brand
Another Amazon-first gadget brand has suspiciously vanished: Choetech
Doug DeMuro on Decoder
Nebula Capsule II mini projector review: TV in a canTranscript:
https://www.theverge.com/e/22533880Credits:
Decoder is a production of The Verge, and part of the Vox Media Podcast Network. Today’s episode was produced by Creighton DeSimone, Alexander Charles Adams, and Andrew Marino. We are edited by Callie Wright. Our music is by Breakmaster Cylinder.
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The secrets of the first real smartphone, with Dieter Bohn
4 november 2021 · 21 min
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 first real smartphone. It's about a company called Handspring and I think the Decoder audience will be really into this story so today we're interviewing Dieter. We talked about his documentary and he brought an exclusive clip that didn't make it into the film.
That documentary is streaming now on The Verge's new streaming apps that you can get on your TV or set top box. We have them for Android, for Amazon Fire TV, for Roku and Apple TV. We've been working on these for a long time. It's a little more complicated than you might think to make these apps, make them good, distribute them on everyone's app stores, some real Decoder pain points in there. Lees meerLinks
Springboard trailer and how to get the streaming appsTranscript
https://www.theverge.com/e/22526129
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Meta’s Andrew Bosworth on moving Facebook to the metaverse
1 november 2021 · 43 min
Facebook announced a major corporate rebrand by changing its company name to Meta. The new name is meant to solidify the social media giant’s longterm bet on building the metaverse. On this episode of Decoder, vice president of Reality Labs Andrew Bosworth talked with The Verge’s Alex Heath about Facebook’s rebrand to Meta, how content moderation will work in the metaverse, and the hardware journey from virtual to mixed reality, and eventually, AR glasses. Lees meer
Links:
Mark Zuckerberg on why Facebook is rebranding to Meta
Facebook is spending at least $10 billion this year on its metaverse division
Eight things we learned from the Facebook Papers
Facebook is planning to rebrand the company with a new nameTranscript:
https://www.theverge.com/e/22517027Credits:
Decoder is a production of The Verge, and part of the Vox Media Podcast Network. Today’s episode was produced by Creighton DeSimone and Andrew Marino and we are edited by Callie Wright. Our music is by Breakmaster Cylinder.
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Adobe's Scott Belsky on how NFTs will change creativity
26 oktober 2021 · 1 uur 4 min
Adobe is one of those companies that I don’t think we pay enough attention to — it’s been around since 1982, and the entire creative economy runs through its software. You don’t just edit a photo, you Photoshop it. We spend a lot of time on Decoder talking about the creator economy, but creators themselves spend all their time working in Adobe’s tools. On this episode, I’m talking to Scott Belsky, chief product officer at Adobe, about the new features coming to their products, many of which focus on collaboration, and about creativity broadly — who gets to be a creative, where they might work, and how they get paid. Lees meer
Transcript
Links:
NFTs Explained
Adobe brings a simplified Photoshop to the web
Adobe is adding a collaborative mood board to Creative Cloud
Soon you can use Photoshop to prepare your art as an NFT
The Dog Ramps Tweet
The Furry Lisa, CryptoArt, & The New Economy Of Digital Creativity
A $120,000 Banana Is Peeled From an Art Exhibition and Eaten
Adobe and Twitter are designing a system for permanently attaching artists’ names to pictures
"I still own you" clipCredits:
Decoder is a production of The Verge, and part of the Vox Media Podcast Network. Today’s episode was produced by Creighton DeSimone, Alexander Charles Adams, and Andrew Marino and we are edited by Callie Wright. Our music is by Breakmaster Cylinder.
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How Jeep is going electric, with CEO Christian Meunier
19 oktober 2021 · 1 uur 12 min
This week we are talking to Jeep CEO Christian Meunier – and there’s a lot to talk about. Jeep just announced its second hybrid electric vehicle in the US, the Grand Cherokee 4xe. It also announced a plan for its first electric car in 2023, and to have EVs across the line by 2025, which is very soon. And it’s now part of a huge global car company called Stellantis.
So I wanted to know: why start with hybrids, instead of jumping straight to EVs? What does it mean to be the CEO of a brand like Jeep inside of of a huge international company like Stellantis? How does the Jeep team make decisions about features and technology, and how much do they have to defer to a larger parent company? And what does it mean for Jeep, one of the most iconic American car brands, to be part of a huge global company now?
Christian and I talked about all of that, as well as how the chip shortage is affecting Jeep, what cars will look like in 2040, and Jeep’s use of the name “Cherokee” in 2021.
Yeah, this interview goes places. Lees meerLinks:
The first plug-in hybrid Jeep Grand Cherokee is here
Tested: 2021 Jeep Wrangler 4xe Complicates a Simple Machine
2021 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited Rubicon 4xe: A Hybrid That Comes Up Short
The electric Mustang Mach-E takes Ford in a whole new direction
Jeep Badge of Honor App
Jeep EV Day videoEpisode Transcript
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How Amazon runs Alexa, with Dave Limp
12 oktober 2021 · 1 uur 15 min
My guest today is Dave Limp, the senior vice president of devices and services at Amazon – or, more simply, the guy in charge of Alexa. Dave’s group at Amazon also includes the Kindle e-reader, the Ring and Blink security camera systems, the Eero wifi router, and a host of other products that connect to Amazon services.
We wanted to know what the business behind Alexa looks like — Amazon sells Echo products at basically break even, it runs the Alexa for all of them for free, and it employs thousands of engineers who work on it. How does that make money? How might it make money in the future? How should we think about Alexa competing with other smart assistants, and for what kinds of business? The answers were not what you’d expect. Lees meerLinks:
Why the global chip shortage is making it so hard to buy a PS5
Amazon's new Ring Alarm Pro combines a security system with an Eero Router
Say Hello to Astro, Alexa on wheels
Amazon is now accepting your applications for its home surveillance drone
Amazon Glow is a video chat gadget with built-in games to keep kids engaged
Amazon’s new Echo Show 15 is meant to hang on your wall
Amazon’s new Kindle Paperwhite adds a bigger screen, longer battery life, and USB-C
Amazon starts making its own TVs with new Fire TV Omni and 4-Series
Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K Max review: the one to buy
How to connect Alexa to Spotify, Apple Music, and more
Amazon's race to create the disappearing computerTranscript: https://www.theverge.com/e/22483986
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Land of the Giants: This Changes Everything
7 oktober 2021 · 34 min
In Land of the Giants: The Apple Revolution, Recode’s Peter Kafka explores the company that changed what a computer is — and then changed what a phone is. From its beginnings as a niche personal computer company, Apple became the preeminent maker of consumer tech products, a cultural trendsetter, and the most valuable company in the world. And along the way, it changed the way we live. Lees meer
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Waymo co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana on how to get self-driving taxis to the mall
5 oktober 2021 · 35 min
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 on your phone to real things happening in the world more directly than almost any other app. Nilay Patel talked to Tekedra Mawakana, co-CEO of Waymo, about expanding Waymo’s service to other cities, the hurdles in place, and how she thinks the company will make money over time. We also talked about the regulatory issues the industry faces as it tries to roll out self-driving more broadly, and whether things like Tesla’s “full self driving” are confusing the issue or helping it.
This was a really fun conversation made even better because we recorded it live, on stage at Code Conference. Lees meerLinks:
Meet the self-driving brains working with Tesla and Ford https://www.theverge.com/22627847/argo-ai-bryan-salesky-decoder-interview-lyft-self-drivingFord CEO Jim Farley on building the electric F-150 -- and reinventing Ford
https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/20/22444294/ford-f150-lightning-pickup-truck-jim-farley-interviewWaymo CEO John Krafcik steps down, replaced by two co-CEOs https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/2/22364317/waymo-ceo-john-krafcik-stepping-down-self-driving-cars-google-alphabet
Riding in Waymo One, the Google spin-off’s first self-driving taxi service https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/5/18126103/waymo-one-self-driving-taxi-service-ride-safety-alphabet-cost-app
Waymo starts offering autonomous rides in San Francisco https://www.theverge.com/2021/8/24/22639226/waymo-san-francisco-rides-self-driving-service
Tesla opens ‘Full Self-Driving’ beta software to more customers https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/26/22693610/tesla-opens-full-self-driving-beta-software-more-customers
Waymo’s self-driving cars are now available on Lyft’s app in Phoenix https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/7/18536003/waymo-lyft-self-driving-ride-hail-app-phoenix
Google is spinning off its self-drivin…
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John Carreyrou’s final chapter on the Theranos scandal
28 september 2021 · 1 uur
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. Lees meer
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Bad Blood: The Final Chapter https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bad-blood-the-final-chapter/id1575738174Theranos’ greatest invention was Elizabeth Holmes https://www.theverge.com/22656190/theranos-elizabeth-holmes-wire-fraud-trial-founder-myth
Elizabeth Holmes is on trial for fraud over her time at Theranos https://www.theverge.com/22684354/elizabeth-holmes-trial-wire-fraud-theranos
Apple Podcasts launches in-app subscriptions https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/20/22381980/apple-podcasts-app-subscriptions-new-design
Hot startup Theranos has struggled with its blood-test technology https://www.wsj.com/articles/theranos-has-struggled-with-blood-tests-1444881901
*Tesla’s Autopilot was engaged when Model 3 crashed into truck, report states https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/16/18627766/tesla-autopilot-fatal-crash-delray-florida-ntsb-model-3
Uber halts self-driving tests after pedestrian killed in Arizona https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/19/17139518/uber-self-driving-car-fatal-crash-tempe-arizona
Elizabeth Holmes “was in charge” of Theranos, says Gen. Mattis https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/22/22689083/elizabeth-holmes-trial-james-mattis-testimony-theranos-fraud
Theranos reaches settlement with investor Partner Fund Management https://techcrunch.com/2017/05/01/theranos-reaches-settlement-with-investor-partner-fund-management/
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https://www.theverge.com/e/22461304Decoder is a production of The Verge, and part of the Vox Media Podcast Network. Today’s episode was produced by Creighton DeSimone, Alexander Charles Adams, and Andrew Marino. And we are edited by Callie Wright. Our music is by Breakmaster Cylinder.
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How F*ck You Pay Me is empowering creators
21 september 2021 · 1 uur 4 min
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, but that it’s also a market that is absolutely starved of information. So today I’m talking to Lindsey Lee Lugrin, the co-founder and CEO of a new platform called Fuck You Pay Me, which is an all-time great company name. FYPM is an app for creators to review and compare brand deals: what brands are paying, what it’s like to work with them, and whether people would work with them again. It’s kind of like Glassdoor or Yelp for influencers. Lees meer
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The quirks and features of YouTube car reviews with Doug DeMuro https://www.theverge.com/22637871/doug-demuro-car-reviews-youtube-decoder-interviewAdvertising is complicated, but Melissa Grady is very good at it https://www.theverge.com/22174582/decoder-podcast-interview-cadillac-cmo-melissa-grady-advertising
YouTube chief product officer Neal Mohan on the algorithm, monetization, and the future for creators https://www.theverge.com/22606296/youtube-shorts-fund-neal-mohan-decoder-interview
The App With the Unprintable Name That Wants to Give Power to Creators https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/02/technology/fypm-creators-app-pay.html
Introduction to smart contracts
https://ethereum.org/en/developers/docs/smart-contracts/The golden age of YouTube is over
https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/5/18287318/youtube-logan-paul-pewdiepie-demonetization-adpocalypse-premium-influencers-creatorsTranscript
https://www.theverge.com/e/22448278
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It's brutal out here: Olivia Rodrigo and how the music business makes songwriters fight over credits
15 september 2021 · 1 uur 4 min
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 industry particularly as it relates to copyright. The conversation is framed around Olivia Rodrigo's debut album Sour and why she keeps handing out songwriting credits months after the album was released. This is kind of a hybrid between an episode of Decoder and an episode of Switched on Pop. We play a lot of music throughout the episode and in case you want to go back and listen to full songs we've made playlists for both Spotify and Apple Music. Lees meer
Spotify - https://spoti.fi/3nuMTt7
Apple Music - https://apple.co/3986hUwLinks
Olivia Rodrigo Studied All the Right Moves
https://www.vulture.com/2021/05/olivia-rodrigo-sour-album-reviewWhy Taylor Swift is rerecording all her old songs https://www.vox.com/culture/22278732/taylor-swift-re-recording-fearless-love-story-master-rights-scooter-braun
Olivia Rodrigo Gives Taylor Swift Songwriting Credit on Second ‘Sour’ Song, ‘Deja Vu’ https://variety.com/2021/music/news/olivia-rodrigo-taylor-swift-songwriting-credit-deja-vu-1235015769/
Olivia Rodrigo Adds Paramore to Songwriting Credits on ‘Good 4 U’
https://variety.com/2021/music/news/olivia-rodrigo-paramore-good-4-u-misery-business-1235048791/‘Blurred Lines’ Copyright Suit Against Robin Thicke, Pharrell Ends in $5M Judgment https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/robin-thicke-pharrell-williams-blurred-lines-copyright-suit-final-5-million-dollar-judgment-768508/
Katy Perry Wins Appeal in ‘Dark Horse’ Infringement Case https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/katy-perry-dark-horse-copyright-win-appeal-969009/
Led Zeppelin Wins Long ‘Stairway to Heaven’ Copyright Case https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/05/arts/music/stairway-to-heaven-led-zeppelin-lawsuit.html
Isley Feels Vindicated In Bolton Case https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/78775/isley-feels-vindicated-i…
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How Slack changed Apple’s employee culture, with Zoë Schiffer
7 september 2021 · 1 uur 5 min
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 to change how App Store payments work; the company settled a Japanese case about the App Store recently, as well as a class-action lawsuit in this country. The verdict in the Epic trial will arrive and there are renewed questions about Apple’s relationship with the Chinese government. And, of course, it’s September — the month when new iPhones usually come out.
But in the background, Verge senior reporter Zoë Schiffer has spent the past few months publishing story after story about unhappy Apple employees, who are starting to talk to the press more and more about what working at Apple is like, and how they’d like it to change. Nilay Patel talks to Zoë about the work she's been doing and what the future holds. Lees meerLinks:
Here’s why Apple’s new child safety features are so controversial https://bit.ly/3n9E07WApple delays controversial child protection features after privacy outcry https://bit.ly/38QdWX2
Apple and Google must allow developers to use other payment systems, new Korean law declares https://bit.ly/3BQeXeb
Apple concedes to let apps like Netflix, Spotify, and Kindle link to the web to sign up https://bit.ly/3kT88Sg
Epic Games v. Apple: the fight for the future of the App Store https://bit.ly/3ySf873
Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield on competing with Microsoft, the future of work, and managing all those notifications https://bit.ly/2VqBZck
Apple employees circulate petition demanding investigation into “misogynistic” new hire https://bit.ly/3h4Sqm4
“Misogynistic” Apple hire is out hours after employees call for investigation https://bit.ly/3naaL5c
Apple asks staff to return to office three days a week starting in early September https://bit.ly/3yNcUWn
Apple employees push back against returning to the office in internal letter https://bit.ly/3BJYSXyApple d…
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Everything you need to know about the global chip shortage
31 augustus 2021 · 1 uur 4 min
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 that is every industry. Right now, major automakers have unfinished cars sitting in parking lots waiting for chips to be installed. Game consoles like the PS5 and Xbox Series X are impossible to find. And even things like microwaves and refrigerators are impacted, because they contain simple controller chips.
So we realized it was time to figure out what caused the chip shortage, why that happened, and how we are going to get out of it.
My guest today is Dr. Willy Shih. He’s the professor of management practices at Harvard Business School. He’s an expert on chips and semiconductors — he spent years working at companies like IBM and Silicon Graphics. And he’s also an expert in supply chains — how things go from raw materials to finished products in stores. Willy’s the guy that grocery stores and paper companies called in March 2020 when there was a run on toilet paper. If anyone’s going to explain this thing, it’s going to be Willy. Lees meerLinks:
What toilet paper can teach us about supply chains https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihd7XJMzdG4The latest in the global semiconductor shortage https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/2/22363232/global-semiconductor-chip-shortage-pandemic-consoles-cpus-graphics-cards-cars
Ford to build some F-150 trucks without certain parts due to global chip shortage https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/18/ford-to-build-some-f-150-trucks-without-certain-parts-due-to-global-chip-shortage/
Situation regarding semiconductor plant fire and product supply https://www.akm.com/us/en/about-us/news/information/20210122-information/
Samsung forced to halt chip production in Austin due to power outages https://www.theverge.com/2021/2/17/22287054/samsung-chip-production-halted-austin-winter-storm-uri-power-blackouts
About that White House meeting to discuss the semiconduct…
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The quirks and features of YouTube car reviews with Doug DeMuro
24 augustus 2021 · 1 uur 16 min
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 co-founded called Cars and Bids.
Read the transcript: https://www.theverge.com/e/22401912
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Meet the self-driving brains working with Ford and Volkswagen
17 augustus 2021 · 1 uur 5 min
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 Austin in partnership with Lyft. I wanted to talk to Bryan about his partnership with Lyft, but I also wanted to know if the pandemic accelerated any of his investment or development the way we have seen in other industries. After all, the proposition of having a taxi all to yourself is pretty enticing in the COVID era, and lots of people moving away from offices to work from home might love having a car that gets them to and from a central office a couple days a week.
Of course, I also had to ask about 5G. Is 5G enabling any of Argo's current self-driving technology? Does he see 5G as a benefit in the future? His answer might surprise you… unless you're a regular listener of this show. Then it won't surprise you one bit.
Read the transcript: https://www.theverge.com/e/22391888
Decoder is produced by Creighton DeSimone, Alexander Charles Adams and Andrew Marino. And we are edited by Callie Wright. Our music is by Breakmaster Cylinder.
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