Best Recode Events Podcasts (2025)

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The case for breaking up Google has never been stronger 1:12:18

8h ago1:12:18

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Today we’re talking about the very real possibility that Google might be broken up by the United States government. And to do that, I’m talking to Jonathan Kanter, the former assistant attorney general for antitrust under the Biden administration. Kanter left the DOJ after Trump was elected, but he was the architect of the major antitrust cases the…

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Roblox CEO David Baszucki knows what your kids are doing. 48:08

2d ago48:08

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Every day some 85 million people - most of them kids - show up to play, chat and spend money on Roblox. That’s a massive audience just about any tech or media company would like to have. But David Baszucki wants more: He thinks his platform can eventually command 10% of the worldwide gaming market. I spent time talking to Baszucki about those ambit…

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Verizon’s consumer chief: Net neutrality ‘went literally nowhere’ 1:12:39

7d ago1:12:39

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As CEO of Verizon's consumer division, Sowmyanarayan Sampath oversees the biggest part of the company, which does business with roughly a third of the entire country. He's a longtime Verge reader, so we talked very directly about whether the huge 5G investment had actually paid off, and whether – whether the “race” we were supposedly in with China …

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How Trump’s tariffs actually work on the ground 1:07:24

9d ago1:07:24

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One of the ways I’ve been trying to sort out the chaos of tariffs and trade wars is by talking to the people behind the software that makes the global trade system go. So today I wanted to bring back one of my favorite Decoder guests: Flexport CEO Ryan Petersen, whose software manages the logistics of moving things around the world, from factory to…

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Laura Ruiz of Code Flight: Accessibility for Coding: Women in Tech Texas 47:20

8d ago47:20

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Don't miss out on the next #womenintech podcast episode, get notified by signing up here http://womenintechshow.com Be featured in the Women in Tech Community by creating your profile here http://womenintechvip.com “Laura Ruiz of Code Flight: Accessibility for Coding” #womenintech Show is a WeAreTech.fm production. Become a Most Valuable Listener a…

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How to make money in Washington, with Punchbowl’s Jake Sherman 44:19

12d ago44:19

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Some people don’t want to pay for media. But lots of people are paying Jake Sherman and his team at Punchbowl News: The 4-year-old startup is thriving by providing super-insidery news and data about what’s happening in Congress. I chatted with Sherman because I wanted to get an update on his business (he says he’s not going to sell it anytime soon,…

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Are prediction markets gambling? Robinhood's Vlad Tenev is betting not 1:19:01

14d ago1:19:01

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Today, I’m talking with Vlad Tenev, the co-founder and CEO of Robinhood, which started as a way to open up stock trading. But the company’s ambitions have grown over time – and they’re getting bigger. Just a day before Vlad and I talked, Robinhood announced it would soon be offering bank accounts and wealth management services, which would really a…

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Why DOGE is killing the agency that stops banks from ripping you off 52:25

18d ago52:25

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Rohit Chopra was the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau head until the end of January, when President Donald Trump fired him and Elon Musk’s DOGE began trying to dismantle the agency. The CFPB has been pretty popular since it was founded in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis to protect consumers, so shutting it down has kicked off a bunch of c…

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NYT publisher AG Sulzberger on Trump, OpenAi and the economy 1:09:07

17d ago1:09:07

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The New York Times faces the same challenges every other news organization faces in 2025. But it’s also in way better shape to take those challenges on: Thanks to a business model built on 11 million subscribers, it’s not nearly so worried about things like the fluctuations of the ad business, or changes in Google’s algorithm. That comparative stre…

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UiPath CEO Daniel Dines on AI agents replacing our jobs 1:10:38

19d ago1:10:38

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Today, I’m talking with Daniel Dines, the co-founder and once again the CEO of UiPath, a software company that specializes in something called robotic process automation. We’ve been featuring a lot of what I like to call full-circle Decoder guests on the show lately, and Daniel is a perfect example. He was first on the show in 2022, and UiPath has …

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What AI anime memes tell us about the future of art and humanity 59:54

24d ago59:54

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Today, we’re diving head first into the AI art debate, which to be honest, is an absolute mess. If you’ve been on the internet this past week, you’ve seen the Studio Ghibli memes. These images are everywhere — and they’ve widened an already pretty stark rift between AI boosters and critics. Brian Merchant, author of the newsletter and book Blood in…

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Trump vs The Media, Round 2, with Sara Fischer 50:29

26d ago50:29

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The Trump 2.0 era is less than three months old. But it’s already creating havoc for journalists and the companies they work for. In Washington, Trump and his team are demoting traditional media - or kicking them out of the White House entirely. In corporate boardrooms, he is forcing media owners to settle lawsuits they would normally fight, and to…

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How Unity CEO Matt Bromberg stopped the ‘war’ against its customers 1:14:21

27d ago1:14:21

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Unity is one of those hidden in plain sight companies we love here on Decoder, and CEO Matt Bromberg is in many ways the perfect Decoder guest. He's been on the job less than a year and took over in a moment of crisis. He describes the company as being "at war with its customers" before he joined, and he's not wrong. The game industry right now is …

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Molly Landman of PetSafe Brands: Creating Great Moments With Pets: Women In Tech Tennessee 35:08

27d ago35:08

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Don't miss out on the next #womenintech podcast episode, get notified by signing up here http://womenintechshow.com Be featured in the Women in Tech Community by creating your profile here http://womenintechvip.com “Molly Landman of PetSafe Brands: Creating Great Moments With Pets” #womenintech Show is a WeAreTech.fm production. Become a Most Valua…

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Capitalism vs. the bird flu 49:44

1M ago49:44

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Today we’re talking about bird flu, but in a pretty Decoder way. Science journalist Lauren Leffer, who recently wrote a piece for The Verge about bird flu and how it’s becoming a forever war, is joining me on the show. We’re going to talk about the systems, structure, and culture that might control bird flu — and those that might make it worse. Lin…

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How long can sports keep TV alive? 47:58

1M ago47:58

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Call it symbiosis. Call it co-dependency. However you want to characterize it, there’s zero debate that Big TV and Big Sports are deeply intertwined. So if the TV business is shrinking, what happens to sports? That’s the main question I had for John Ourand, the longtime sports business reporter who’s now at Puck. But I had lots of related ones, lik…

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Splice CEO Kakul Srivastava on why push-button AI is “insulting” to musicians 1:10:37

1M ago1:10:37

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Today, I’m talking with Kakul Srivastava, CEO of music creation platform Splice, which is one of the biggest marketplaces around for loops and samples. You can just go sign up, pay the money, and download these loops to try to make pop hits all day long. Take, for instance, Sabrina Carpenter’s Espresso, which was composed almost entirely out of Spl…

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Alyssa Pollack of Fello: Revolutionizing Peer Support: Women In Tech Chicago 47:56

1M ago47:56

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Don't miss out on the next #womenintech podcast episode, get notified by signing up here http://womenintechshow.com Be featured in the Women in Tech Community by creating your profile here http://womenintechvip.com “Alyssa Pollack of Fello: Revolutionizing Peer Support: Women In Tech Chicago” #womenintech Show is a WeAreTech.fm production. Become a…

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The movement to take down Tesla 51:05

1M ago51:05

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Today we're talking about the Tesla Takedown protest movement, which has emerged as a way for people to express how deeply unhappy they are with Elon Musk installing himself as a not-so-shadow president who is tearing the federal government apart, leaving confusion and destruction in his wake. Tesla's stock price is sinking, new car registrations a…

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Inside PJ Vogt’s low budget, super successful podcast 1:05:40

1M ago1:05:40

1:05:40

Anyone who makes things thinks they could do it better if they had more. More money, time, headcount, infrastructure. Some of us find there can be upsides to doing it with less, too. That's not exactly PJ Vogt's story but I think it's directionally accurate: Vogt cohosted a huge hit podcast - Reply All - and when he decided to try again - with Sear…

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How Trump's tariff chaos is already changing global trade 1:11:26

1M ago1:11:26

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I'm talking to Evan Smith, who started Altana in 2019 because he predicted the first wave of globalized manufacturing and trade would end, and that companies would want new powerful tools to adapt their supply chains as the world grew more complex. Here in 2025, that looks like a pretty good bet — even if the way it's playing out is more stressful …

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Why the Take It Down Act is a not a law, but a weapon 52:14

2M ago52:14

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Today, I’m talking to Verge policy editor Adi Robertson about a bill called the Take It Down Act, which is one in a long line of bills that would make it illegal to distribute non-consensual intimate imagery, or NCII. This is a real and devastating problem on the internet, and AI is just making it worse. But Adi just wrote a long piece arguing that…

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Twitch CEO Dan Clancy wants to hang on to the live-streaming crown 1:01:49

2M ago1:01:49

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Back when I first started covering the internet, the idea of broadcasting yourself for hours on end seemed like a pipe dream for weirdos. Now it's how some people make a living. Twitch more or less created live-streaming in the U.S., which is why Amazon bought it for about $1 billion back in 2014. But now there are plenty of places to watch, and cr…

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Stormy Jackson of Mayo Clinic: Commit To Taking Action: Women In Tech California 52:25

2M ago52:25

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Don't miss out on the next #womenintech podcast episode, get notified by signing up here http://womenintechshow.com Be featured in the Women in Tech Community by creating your profile here http://womenintechvip.com “Stormy Jackson of Mayo Clinic: Commit To Taking Action” #womenintech Show is a WeAreTech.fm production. Become a Most Valuable Listene…

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Dow Jones CEO Almar Latour on AI, press freedom, and the future of news 1:08:31

2M ago1:08:31

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Almar Latour is the publisher of the Wall Street Journal and also CEO of its parent company, Dow Jones — itself a part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. Almar's been with the paper since the 90s, and now he's got insight into all the modern messes. He's made a big deal with OpenAI, while also suing Perplexity — all while building his own AI data produ…

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Flying is still safe, for now — but the FAA isn’t 40:43

2M ago40:43

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So today I’m talking to Andy Hawkins, The Verge’s transportation editor, about what’s going on in the skies. Andy just edited a big piece for us by writer Darryl Campbell that helps put a lot of what’s happening in air travel right now in perspective. It has some very reassuring data points, but it also raises important questions about what we need…

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Matt Belloni: what the Oscars tell us about Hollywood 43:48

2M ago43:48

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We had to stop recording this one for a minute, because Matt Belloni got a text. More on that below. Big picture: Matt is a longtime Hollywood reporter - and lawyer before that - who now has the industry's ear via his writing at Puck and his The Town podcast. I asked him to talk about what lies ahead for the Oscars, the out-of-step TV production th…

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Amazon’s Panos Panay on the long road to Alexa’s AI overhaul 1:13:41

2M ago1:13:41

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Panos Panay is in charge of devices and services at Amazon — that's everything from Alexa and Kindle to Ring, Eero, and even the Project Kuiper satellite internet service that's meant to compete with Starlink. He's led the team through giving Alexa a big AI infusion which is what drew him to Amazon after nearly 20 years with Microsoft. Like so many…

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Elon Musk's polarizing ascent in the MAGA movement 39:55

2M ago39:55

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This is Alex Heath, deputy editor of The Verge. I’m guest hosting today’s episode while Nilay is still away for a much-needed vacation. He’ll be back next week. But today, we’re diving into the bromance between Elon Musk and Donald Trump, and more specifically, how it’s impacting the changing right-wing political movement here in the United States.…

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Free speech is under attack 53:21

2M ago53:21

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The most useful class I ever took in college was a media law class, where I learned two things: 1) Journalists in the U.S. (along every other American citizen) have enormous freedom to say and write what they want, without fear of a defamation suit and 2) this freedom exists largely because of New York Times v Sullivan, a seminal Supreme Court case…

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Vimeo CEO Philip Moyer is betting on the human touch — and AI 1:17:16

2M ago1:17:16

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Vimeo started many years ago as something of an artsier, more creative competitor to YouTube. Its last CEO, Anjali Sud, took the company through a pretty huge transformation into an enterprise software company, and we had her on the show to talk about that transformation a couple years ago. Now, her successor, new CEO Philip Moyer, not only has to …

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Why gaming never had its Netflix moment 58:55

2M ago58:55

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This is David Pierce, editor-at-large at The Verge. Nilay is off this week for a much-deserved break. So I’m filling in for him, and the Decoder team thought this would be a good opportunity to switch gears a little bit from the political apocalypse beat and talk about something completely different. So today we’re diving into the video game indust…

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