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Recode Decode: Jason Calacanis
Decoder with Nilay Patel
03/02/20 • 68 min
Inside CEO and This Week in Startups host Jason Calacanis talks with Kara Swisher about the future of Uber after its troubled IPO, why one of the tech giants should buy Tesla, and Jeff Bezos' Achilles heel: His lack of generosity. Calacanis, who was an early investor in Uber, also talks about his objections to the current state of tech journalism and punditry, the end of SoftBank’s “free money party," and why Tim Cook doesn’t have the chutzpah to take Apple into the future. Plus: Why the US should ban TikTok, even if the Chinese-owned mobile app spins off an American-run unit.
Featuring:
Jason Calacanis (@Jason), CEO and co-founder, Inside
Host:
Kara Swisher (@karaswisher), Recode co-founder and editor-at-large
More to explore:
On Reset, Arielle Duhaime-Ross explores why — and how — tech is changing everything.
On Recode Media, Peter Kafka interviews business titans, journalists, comedians and podcasters about the collision of tech and media.
On Pivot, Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway talk about the big tech news stories of the week, who's winning, who's failing, and what comes next.
And on Land of the Giants, Jason Del Rey chronicled the rise of Amazon. Season 2 will focus on Netflix and is coming soon!
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Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe says too many carmakers are copying Tesla
Decoder with Nilay Patel
07/22/24 • 63 min
Today, I’m talking with Rivian founder and CEO RJ Scaringe. RJ was on the show last September when we chatted at the Code Conference, but the past 10 months have seen a whirlwind of change throughout the car industry and at Rivian in particular. This year alone, the company unveiled five new models in its lineup and also just announced a $5 billion joint venture with Volkswagen. We got into all that and more.
If you’re a Decoder listener, you’ve heard me talk to a lot of car CEOs on the show, but it’s rare to talk to a car company founder, and RJ was game to talk about basically anything — even extremely minor feature requests I pulled from the forums. It’s a fun one.
Links:
- Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe isn't scared of the Cybertruck | Decoder
- VW will invest up to $5 billion in Rivian as part of new EV joint venture | The Verge
- Rivian blazed a trail with its adventure EVs — can it stay on top? | The Verge
- Rivian R2 revealed: a $45,000 electric off-roader for the masses | The Verge
- Rivian surprises with R3 and R3X electric SUVs | The Verge
- Rivian puts its Georgia factory plans on pause | The Verge
- Rivian’s R1 vehicles are getting a gut overhaul | The Verge
- Rivian R1S review: king of the mountain | The Verge
- Rivian’s long, narrow road to profit | WSJ
- Tesla’s Share of U.S. Electric Car Market Falls Below 50% | NYT
Transcript: https://www.theverge.com/e/23965790
Credits:
Decoder is a production of The Verge, and part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.
Our producers are Kate Cox and Nick Statt. Our editor is Callie Wright. Our supervising producer is Liam James.
The Decoder music is by Breakmaster Cylinder.
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Why Hank Green can’t quit YouTube for TikTok
Decoder with Nilay Patel
08/02/22 • 75 min
Today I’m talking to Hank Green. Hank doesn’t need much introduction. In fact, he invited himself on Decoder to talk about YouTube's partner program, which shares ad revenue between YouTube and the people making videos. The split is 55/45 in favor of creators. But other platforms don't have this. There is no revenue share on Instagram. There is no revenue share on Twitter. There’s no revenue on Twitter at all, really. And importantly there is no revenue share on TikTok: instead there’s something called a creator fund, which shares fixed pool of money, about a billion dollars, among all the creators on the platform. That means as more and more creators join TikTok, everyone gets paid. You might understand this concept as: basic division.
This episode is long, and it’s weedsy. Honestly, it’s pretty deep in our feelings about participating in the internet culture economy, and the relationship between huge platform companies and the communities that build on them. But it’s a good one, and it’s not really something any of us talk about enough.
Links:
Decoder interview with YouTube Chief Product Officer Neal Mohan
Viacom Has Officially Acquired VidCon, A Global Online Video Convention Series
Patreon Acquires Subbable, Aligning the YouTube Stars
The Kardashians hate the new Instagram
Hank Green: So... TikTok Sucks
Waveform: The MKBHD Podcast, “TikTok vs YouTube with Hank Green”
Transcript:
https://www.theverge.com/e/23051537
Credits:
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. Our Editorial Director is Brooke Minters. And our Executive Producer is Eleanor Donovan.
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AI will make money sooner than you think, says Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez
Decoder with Nilay Patel
06/10/24 • 70 min
Cohere is one of the buzziest AI startups around right now. It's not making consumer products; it's focused on the enterprise market and making AI products for big companies. And there's a huge tension there: up until recently, computers have been deterministic. If you give computers a certain input, you usually know exactly what output you’re going to get. There’s a logic to it. But if we all start talking to computers with human language and getting human language back, well, human language is messy. And that makes the entire process of knowing what to put in and what exactly we’re going to get out of our computers different than it ever has been before.
Links:
- Attention is all you need
- On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots
- Introducing the AI Mirror Test, which very smart people keep failing | The Verge
- AI isn’t close to becoming sentient | The Conversation
- These are Microsoft’s Bing AI secret rules and why it says it’s named Sydney | The Verge
- ‘Godfather of AI’ quits Google with regrets and fears about his life’s work | The Verge
- Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott on Bing’s quest to beat Google | The Verge
- Top AI researchers and CEOs warn against ‘risk of extinction’ | The Verge
- Google Zero is here — now what? | The Verge
- Cara grew from 40k to 650k in a week because artists are fed up with Meta’s AI policies | TechCrunch
- How AI copyright lawsuits could make the whole industry go extinct | The Verge
Transcript: https://www.theverge.com/e/23937899
Credits:
Decoder is a production of The Verge and part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.
Our producers are Kate Cox and Nick Statt. Our editor is Callie Wright. Our supervising producer is Liam James.
The Decoder music is by Breakmaster Cylinder.
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Recode Decode: Deepak Chopra
Decoder with Nilay Patel
03/27/20 • 62 min
Dr. Deepak Chopra talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about how to cope with the global threat posed by coronavirus, the parallel "pandemic of panic," and how to not be overwhelmed by fear and anxiety. Comparing it to past pandemics and wars, he says the covid-19 outbreak is an invitation to stop denying our shared humanity and finally recognize our power to use our creativity to save ourselves. Chopra also discusses his AI project Digital Deepak, what a selfie can tell you about your stress level, and how he's been received in Silicon Valley. Plus: The insane narcissism of biohackers who are trying to "cure" death, and the potential of mind-altering substances like CBD.
Featuring:
Deepak Chopra (@deepakchopra), author, Metahuman
Host:
Kara Swisher (@karaswisher), Recode co-founder and editor-at-large
More to explore:
On Reset, Arielle Duhaime-Ross explores why — and how — tech is changing everything.
On Recode Media, Peter Kafka interviews business titans, journalists, comedians and podcasters about the collision of tech and media.
On Pivot, Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway talk about the big tech news stories of the week, who's winning, who's failing, and what comes next.
And on Land of the Giants, Jason Del Rey chronicled the rise of Amazon. Season 2 will focus on Netflix and is coming soon!
About Recode by Vox:
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Recode Decode: Chamath Palihapitiya
Decoder with Nilay Patel
03/04/19 • 69 min
Social Capital CEO Chamath Palihapitiya talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher and Teddy Schleifer about an “identity crisis” that pitted his wealth and fame against personal happiness and relationships.
In this episode: Social Capital’s attempts to disrupt venture capital; Palihapitiya’s “identity crisis” and search for happiness; nonwhite people aren’t allowed to appear crazy; “to all the people that worked for me ... you’re fucking welcome”; why Silicon Valley has never been unhappier; the lack of heroes and values in modern society; the uneasy balance between a business' mission and its profits; disarming the concept of mental health; why Palihapitiya isn’t a fan of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez; why the startup world is a “ponzi scheme”; what entrepreneurs need to ask prospective investors to avoid getting fleeced; the looming debt crisis; the five areas he would invest in now; and the current state of Social Capital.
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How Slack changed Apple’s employee culture, with Zoë Schiffer
Decoder with Nilay Patel
09/07/21 • 66 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.
Links:
Here’s why Apple’s new child safety features are so controversial https://bit.ly/3n9E07W
Apple 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/3BJYSXy
Apple delays mandatory return to office until January 2022, citing COVID-19 surge https://bit.ly/3l433H5
Apple places female engineering program manager on administrative leave after tweeting about sexism in the office https://bit.ly/3jNwuO0
Google fires prominent AI ethicist Timnit Gebru https://bit.ly/3toFXhZ
Apple Shareholders Show Their Support for Tim Cook https://nyti.ms/3tkAn01
Apple says all US employees now receive equal pay for equal work https://bit.ly/3zSbpYj
Apple keeps shutting down employee-run surveys on pay equity -- and labor lawyers say it’s illegal https://bit.ly/3BNa85E
Apple says it has pay equity, but an informal employee survey suggests otherwise https://bit.ly/3zSJYh0
Apple just banned a pay equity Slack channel but lets fun dogs channel lie https://bit.ly/3hbiyvB
Apple employees are organizing, now under the banner #AppleToo https://bit.ly/3hazJNP
Here’s what we know about the Google union so far https://bit.ly/2WWNfNK
Google employees push back after mishandled sexual harassment revelations https://bit.ly/3DUVv23
Apple cares about privacy, unless you work at Apple https://www.theverge.com/22648265/apple-employee-privacy-icloud-id
Black women say Pinterest created a den of discromination -- despite its image as the nicest company in tech https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/07/03/pinterest-race-bias-black-employees/
Apple ordered to pay California store workers for time spent waiting for bag searches https://www.theverge.com/2020/9/3/21419729/apple-california-pay-workers-class-action-bag-searches
Read the transcript here:
https://www.theverge.com/e/22423538
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Recode Decode: Conor Dougherty
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02/28/20 • 63 min
New York Times reporter Conor Dougherty talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher about his new book, Golden Gates: Fighting For Housing in America. He talks about why San Francisco’s housing crisis is the “worst version of something every city has,” the resentment created by tech companies’ buses for their workers, and how the city was painted “gentrification grey.” Dougherty also explains why knowledge workers and service workers have to be next to each other in cities; why making brand-new neighborhoods in old industrial areas doesn’t work; and the defeat of SB50, which would have allowed more housing near public transit in the SF Bay Area. Plus: Why construction needs to become less artisanal, and why President Trump is partly right to allege that California has regulated itself into peril.
Featuring:
Conor Dougherty (@ConorDougherty), author, Golden Gates: Fighting For Housing in America
Host:
Kara Swisher (@karaswisher), Recode co-founder and editor-at-large
More to explore:
On Reset, Arielle Duhaime-Ross explores why — and how — tech is changing everything.
On Recode Media, Peter Kafka interviews business titans, journalists, comedians and podcasters about the collision of tech and media.
On Pivot, Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway talk about the big tech news stories of the week, who's winning, who's failing, and what comes next.
And on Land of the Giants, Jason Del Rey chronicled the rise of Amazon. Season 2 will focus on Netflix and is coming soon!
About Recode by Vox:
Recode by Vox helps you understand how tech is changing the world — and changing us.
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Recode Decode: Aicha Evans and Jesse Levinson
Decoder with Nilay Patel
03/06/20 • 65 min
Zoox CEO Aicha Evans and CTO Jesse Levinson talk with Recode's Kara Swisher about their development of a fully autonomous robo-taxi, which will be designed for multiple passengers to share and is planned to hit public roads before the end of 2021. They discuss how Evans was persuaded to come to the self-driving company from Intel after the departure of Levinson's co-founder and the company's original CEO, Tim Kentley-Klay; how Zoox’s car compares to Tesla's "autopilot" feature; and why they intentionally designed it to avoid "the Uber Pool problem." Plus: Is the nearly $1 billion Zoox has raised enough to compete in the rapidly changing auto industry?
Featuring:
Aicha Evans (@aicha2evans), CEO, Zoox
Jesse Levinson, CTO and co-founder, Zoox
Host:
Kara Swisher (@karaswisher), Recode co-founder and editor-at-large
More to explore:
On Reset, Arielle Duhaime-Ross explores why — and how — tech is changing everything.
On Recode Media, Peter Kafka interviews business titans, journalists, comedians and podcasters about the collision of tech and media.
On Pivot, Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway talk about the big tech news stories of the week, who's winning, who's failing, and what comes next.
And on Land of the Giants, Jason Del Rey chronicled the rise of Amazon. Season 2 will focus on Netflix and is coming soon!
About Recode by Vox:
Recode by Vox helps you understand how tech is changing the world — and changing us.
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Recode Decode: Mark Cuban
Decoder with Nilay Patel
04/20/20 • 66 min
Investor, Dallas Mavericks owner, and Shark Tank co-host Mark Cuban talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about what capitalism and entrepreneurship looks like in a post-coronavirus world; whether he's planning to run for political office, and what his platform would be if he did; and what it will take for professional sports to come back. Cuban, who was recently announced as a member of President Trump's panel to re-open the economy, says the government hasn't done enough yet for small businesses and explains why "America 2.0" will require putting more money in the hands of workers — in good times and bad — and much more investment in technology. Plus: What companies would he create now if he were a young entrepreneur?
Featuring:
Mark Cuban (@mcuban), investor and entrepreneur
Host:
Kara Swisher (@karaswisher), Recode co-founder and editor-at-large
More to explore:
On Reset, Arielle Duhaime-Ross explores why — and how — tech is changing everything.
On Recode Media, Peter Kafka interviews business titans, journalists, comedians and podcasters about the collision of tech and media.
On Pivot, Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway talk about the big tech news stories of the week, who's winning, who's failing, and what comes next.
And on Land of the Giants, Jason Del Rey chronicled the rise of Amazon. Season 2 will focus on Netflix and is coming soon!
About Recode by Vox:
Recode by Vox helps you understand how tech is changing the world — and changing us.
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