Decoder
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 policy makers 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. Subscribe here!

Stack Overflow is basically Reddit for developers. CEO Prashanth Chandrasekar explains how the company moderates its content.

Signal messages are more private than iMessage and WhatsApp. Here’s how.

A year after rebranding Facebook to Meta, Mark Zuckerberg is still all in on building the metaverse

How CEO Pat Gelsinger changed the culture at Intel and bet big on the silicon heartland

Arm’s chips are in your iPhone — but what exactly does Arm do?

The Flexport CEO’s tweetstorm changed how a major US port moves your stuff

Mark Bergen takes us inside the black box

Facebook is figuring out what a new generation wants from social media

The brands are at it again

Selena Gomez’s beauty brand has grown beyond her own social reach

And why it’s 40 percent cheaper to run


The company’s roller-coaster journey from COVID crash to wedding boom

Maybe it won’t be a dystopia?

Riding the wave of the outdoor cooking revolution

Big plans to go all-electric by 2030

Her new book on the long history of fangirls, from the Beatles to One Direction

Verge labor reporter on the fight to unionize

With Michael Chobanian, the president of the Blockchain Association of Ukraine

Running a creator-owned streaming service

Uber, Facebook, and Spotify already use UiPath software

Stories and lessons from his new book, Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making

On the frontier of fighting the NSA

A plan to revive US manufacturing gone wrong

Plus, why a16z has spent $3 billion on web3 startups

Plus, Disney’s battle of the Bobs


Robinhood is launching a new cash card today

The European Commission’s competition watchdog is thinking bigger than lawsuits

CEO Matt Mullenweg on why he bets big on small companies

Plus, how to make a chip in a chip shortage

Protecting your patents against tech giants

Demystifying the law of the internet with crypto professor Tonya Evans

Tackling tech’s diversity problem with Bärí Williams

How a Black news startup was born from a racial justice reckoning

Turning the ‘Great Resignation’ into good business

Featuring the CEOs of Volkswagen, Ford, and Jeep

A new electric Microbus offers a glimpse at the future of VW

Cristiano Amon is optimistic about everything

The US secretary of transportation wants to talk about innovation, infrastructure, and electric vehicles — and a little about Tesla