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Decoder with Nilay Patel

Decoder is a show from The Verge about big ideas — and other problems. Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel talks to a diverse cast of innovators and policymakers at the frontiers of business and technology to reveal how they’re navigating an ever-changing landscape, what keeps them up at night, and what it all means for our shared future.

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“The industry's gotten much more competitive, but I think all these new use cases too, and some of these verticalized use cases are really where we're going to see the growth going forward because it's obvious coding isn't going to power us to even triple from here.” — Joey Brookhart, Decoder with Nilay Patel
Joey Brookhart · 29 Oct 2026 Listen →
“I often tell people that being in San Francisco these days feels like living in Europe during the Reformation, where you just have like crazy, like wild-eyed prophets like waving their pamphlets around and like trying to get you to join their thing. Like this is what walking down Market Street in San Francisco feels like.” — Kevin Roose, Decoder with Nilay Patel
Kevin Roose · 26 Oct 2026 Listen →
“One person at one of these companies recently told me that they think their company might be the last company. And I thought, like, the last company to IPO this year? What do you mean? They were like, no, we think this might be the teleological end of capitalism. And there might never be another large company primarily run by humans.” — Kevin Roose, Decoder with Nilay Patel
Kevin Roose · 26 Oct 2026 Listen →
“The way I orchestrate resources to eradicate malaria, I'm pretty unique in my life experience that lets me do that. And when the AI says to me, no, I'm better than you. You go play pickleball and I'll get back to you. I'm going to take care of this. I will, I mean, it's kind of humorous, but it's not humorous.” — Bill Gates, Decoder with Nilay Patel
Bill Gates · 22 Oct 2026 Listen →
“The notion that liability laws are how we're going to manage AI safety will be looked back on as kind of absurd. ... So we will take AI safety more seriously than we take airline safety, drug safety, car safety. That is guaranteed.” — Bill Gates, Decoder with Nilay Patel
Bill Gates · 22 Oct 2026 Listen →
“This idea that the president has and David Sachs, where they got all the companies together and said, hey, how about you guys self-police? That's not going to work for at least not for protecting people's privacy. And frankly, it's not going to provide any safety either because everybody's going to operate in their own self-interest. It's one of the reasons why you need government, in my view.” — JB Pritzker, Decoder with Nilay Patel
JB Pritzker · 19 Oct 2026 Listen →
“If these days 4% unemployment is kind of the acceptable near full employment number, I think the problem we're going to see is that in very short order, we could end up at 7% and have that be the baseline and maybe 10%. ... When you get to 10% unemployment in any country, we better be focused on how we're going to give people the dignity of work and enough income so that they can make a life for themselves.” — JB Pritzker, Decoder with Nilay Patel
JB Pritzker · 19 Oct 2026 Listen →
“I do believe that government has to be more active now and become a fighter for our people and not just a collaborator with business on everything. ... My job is to protect the working people of this state who often don't have anybody protecting them except a government that will stand up for them.” — JB Pritzker, Decoder with Nilay Patel
JB Pritzker · 19 Oct 2026 Listen →
“Because what do all of these things need? Whether it's Robotaxi or whether it's data centers in space, they need money, right? And money needs a narrative. And this is just another one of the narratives to stack on top to say, here's how we can drive incremental value.” — Walter Piecyk, Decoder with Nilay Patel
Walter Piecyk · 17 Oct 2026 Listen →
“We should save all these quotes now where they're saying, oh, Elon can't be a competitor because he only has 80 megahertz of spectrum. Because then when they want to merge with someone, they're going to claim, oh, no, he's actually a competitor.” — Walter Piecyk, Decoder with Nilay Patel
Walter Piecyk · 17 Oct 2026 Listen →
“I'd like to bring people back towards solutionism because, you know, I don't want surveillance at all, but we don't live in Benjordistan. We live in a democracy. And a lot of people are okay with it to some degree.” — Benn Jordan, Decoder with Nilay Patel
Benn Jordan · 15 Oct 2026 Listen →
“I think it's a lot of cowardice, I'll be honest. … So many other people around it who had the concerns and voiced them urgently just folded like napkins and changed their tune the moment they saw the wind was blowing the other way and they wanted in on the profit train.” — Ronan Farrow, Decoder with Nilay Patel
Ronan Farrow · 12 Oct 2026 Listen →

Hosts

Decoder with Nilay Patel is hosted by Kara Swisher , Nilay Patel , Peter Kafka , Alex Heath , Lauren Goode , Hayden Field , Casey Newton , Jason Del Rey , Teddy Schleifer , David Pierce , Erica Anderson and Hank Green .

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