When Nilay Patel was four years old, he drove a Chrysler into a small pond because he was trying to learn how the gearshift worked. Years later, he became a technology journalist. He has thus far remained dry.

Nilay Patel is co-founder and editor-in-chief of The Verge, the technology and culture brand from Vox Media. In his decade at Vox Media, he&rsquo;s grown The Verge into one of the largest and most influential tech sites, with a global audience of millions of monthly readers, and award-winning journalism with real-world impact. Honored in Adweek&rsquo;s “Creative 100” in 2021, under Patel&rsquo;s leadership, The Verge received its first Pulitzer and National Magazine Award nominations.

Patel is a go-to expert voice in the tech space, hosting The Verge&rsquo;s Webby award-winning podcasts, Decoder with Nilay Patel and The Vergecast, and appearing on CNBC as a regular contributor. He received an AB in Political Science from the University of Chicago in 2003 and his J.D. from the University of Wisconsin Law School in 2006.

Nilay Patel

It’s time to break up Facebook

Newsrooms must stand up to targeted campaigns of harassment

Casey Neistat interviews Logan Paul: ‘There’s a difference between being culturally insensitive and being insensitive’

No, Facebook did not patent secretly turning your phone mics on when it hears your TV

Sonos Beam review: living room upgrade

The US Patent Office has issued 10 million patents

The court’s decision to let AT&T and Time Warner merge is ridiculously bad

AT&T and Verizon both want to run massive ad-tracking networks to rival Facebook

Apple’s AirPlay 2 with multiroom audio streaming and stereo HomePod pairing is here

Mark Zuckerberg is ‘actually not sure we shouldn’t be regulated’

is editor-in-chief of The Verge, host of the Decoder podcast, and co-host of The Vergecast.

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