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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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Taylor Swift and the music industry's next $20 from 2023-01-17T10:00

I have this theory that music is usually about five years ahead of the rest of media in terms of its relationship to tech—whether that’s new formats based on new tech, like vinyl to CDs; new busine...

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How F*ck You Pay Me is empowering creators from 2021-09-21T10:00

We talk a lot about the creator economy here on Decoder and one thing we’ve learned from all those conversations is that the creator economy is a market just like any other, with supply and demand,...

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It's brutal out here: Olivia Rodrigo and how the music business makes songwriters fight over credits from 2021-09-15T10:00

This week on Decoder we are doing something a little different. We're talking with Charlie Harding, co-host of the podcast Switched on Pop a podcast about pop music, about the state of the music in...

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Can Polestar design a new kind of car company? from 2021-07-13T10:00

We are back after our week off, and we’ve got a good one today. On this episode I’m talking to Thomas Ingenlath, CEO of Polestar, a new car company with close family ties to Volvo. We talked a lot ...

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Index Ventures' Mike Volpi and Danny Rimer on global innovation and founder power from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Mike Volpi and Danny Rimer, the co-founders of the San Francisco office of Index Ventures, talk with Recode's Kara Swisher. In this episode: Volpi and Rimer's backgrounds and the early days of the ...

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Why the 'Google memo' author had to be fired (Susan Wojcicki, CEO, YouTube) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about how YouTube has grown since she assumed that role in 2014, and how it's making original content differently than other video platfo...

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Recode Decode: Megan Quinn, general partner, Spark Capital from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Spark Capital General Partner Megan Quinn talks with Recode's Kara Swisher and The Verge's Casey Newton about the evolving balance between venture capitalists and entrepreneurs. Quinn, an investor ...

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Recode Decode: Obama's cybersecurity chief Michael Daniel from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Barack Obama's former cybersecurity coordinator Michael Daniel, now the CEO of the nonprofit Cyber Threat Alliance, talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher about the state of US cybersecurity heading into...

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Rep. Ro Khanna on Bernie Sanders, 2020 election interference, and pragmatic tech regulation from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

US Congressman Ro Khanna, who represents California's 17th district, joins Recode's Kara Swisher live onstage at Manny's in San Francisco to talk about the state of tech policy and the next electio...

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Broadcast TV is not dead (Ilene Chaiken, showrunner, ‘Empire’) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Ilene Chaiken, the creator of “The L Word” and showrunner for “Empire,” talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher at the 2017 edition of Werk It, WNYC’s women-in-podcasting festival. Chaiken explains how sh...

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Recode Decode: Noam Cohen, author, 'The Know-It-Alls' from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Author and former New York Times columnist Noam Cohen talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his new book, "The Know-It-Alls: The Rise of Silicon Valley as a Political Powerhouse and Social Wreckin...

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Recode Decode: FTC Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Rebecca Kelly Slaughter, one of the FTC's two Democratic commissioners, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about the state of antitrust problems in the tech industry, the history of pushback against ...

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Andreessen Horowitz's Scott Kupor on the "secrets" of venture capital from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Scott Kupor, the managing partner of Andreessen Horowitz, talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher and Teddy Schleifer about his new book, Secrets of Sand Hill Road: Venture Capital and How to Get It. In ...

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Why Shonda Rhimes left ABC for Netflix (Live) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

ShondaLand CEO Shonda Rhimes, the TV producer behind hits like "Grey's Anatomy," "Scandal" and "How to Get Away With Murder," talks with Recode's Kara Swisher at the 2017 Vanity Fair New Establishm...

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Recode Decode: Andrew Mason, CEO, Descript from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Andrew Mason, the founder and former CEO of Groupon, talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher and The Verge’s Casey Newton about his latest startup, Descript. The company bills itself as a “word processor ...

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Recode Decode: Senator Mark Warner from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Mark Warner, the senior US Senator from Virginia, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about several interconnected policy issues affecting the 2020 elections, including the security of voter registrie...

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Why Silicon Valley loves "biohacking" and intermittent fasting from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Inspired by the trendiness of intermittent fasting in the tech community, Kara Swisher's executive producer, Erica Anderson, talks with three eating habit experts — a biohacker, an academic, and an...

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Jared Leto on playing a tech trillionaire in 'Blade Runner 2049' from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

"Blade Runner 2049" actor Jared Leto talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about portraying Niander Wallace, a trillionaire tech mogul. By the start of the new movie, Wallace has saved humanity from sta...

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Recode Decode: Kara Swisher visits Pod Save America (Live) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Recode's Kara Swisher talks with Crooked Media's Jon Lovett, Jon Favreau, Tommy Vietor and Dan Pfeiffer, appearing as a guest on a live taping of their podcast, Pod Save America, in Oakland, Califo...

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Recode Decode: Whistleblower Aid CEO John Tye from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

John Napier Tye, the founder and CEO of Whistleblower Aid, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about how his non-profit law firm helps people seeking to legally expose corruption in the government and...

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Stanford University's Larry Diamond on Russia, China, and the "new Cold War" from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Larry Diamond, a professor at Stanford University and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his new book, Ill Winds: Saving Democracy from Russian Rage, Ch...

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“Free speech” is cheap (Ellen Pao, author, “Reset”) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Investor Ellen Pao talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher about her new book, “Reset: My Fight for Inclusion and Lasting Change,” which chronicles Pao’s 2015 court battle against her former employer, Kle...

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Recode Decode: Daniel Gross, partner, Y Combinator from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Y Combinator Partner Daniel Gross talks with Recode's Kara Swisher and The Verge's Casey Newton about why he returned to the startup incubator that gave him his start in Silicon Valley. Gross co-fo...

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Recode Decode: Hermitage Capital CEO Bill Browder from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Recode's Kara Swisher talks with Hermitage Capital CEO Bill Browder, a hedge fund manager turned human rights activist and his son, Josh Browder, whose company DoNotPay helps consumers fight everyt...

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Rep. Lauren Underwood on the impeachment debate, representing a swing district, and "toxic" 2020 candidates from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Lauren Underwood, the US Congresswoman who represents Illinois' 14th district, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher in this live interview recorded on July 29, 2019 at Manny's in San Francisco. In thi...

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God, the Washington Post and the meaning of life (Sally Quinn, author, "Finding Magic") from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Sally Quinn, the author of "Finding Magic: A Spiritual Memoir," talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about her new book and her career in journalism. Quinn got her start covering the Washington, D.C., ...

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Recode Decode: Leslie Berlin, historian, Stanford University from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Leslie Berlin, the historian who oversees Stanford University's Silicon Valley Archives, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about her new book, "Troublemakers: How a Generation of Silicon Valley Upst...

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Recode Decode: "She Said" authors Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

New York Times reporters Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey talk with Recode's Kara Swisher about their new book, She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement. They talk a...

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“The $300 textbook is dead” says Pearson CEO John Fallon from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Pearson CEO John Fallon talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about why the company is pivoting from print to digital textbooks. In this episode: Fallon’s background; the publishing industry’s slow-mot...

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Donald Trump, explained (Maggie Haberman, New York Times, and David Fahrenthold, Washington Post) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

New York Times White House correspondent Maggie Haberman and Washington Post reporter David Fahrenthold talk with Recode's Kara Swisher at the 2017 Texas Tribune Festival in Austin. Both known for ...

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Recode Decode: Margrethe Vestager from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Margrethe Vestager, Europe's commissioner for competition, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher in front of a live audience at Web Summit 2017 in Lisbon, Portugal. Vestager explains how the E.U. is try...

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Recode Decode: Blackstone CEO Steve Schwarzman from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Steve Schwarzman, the CEO of the private equity firm The Blackstone Group, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his new book, What It Takes: Lessons in the Pursuit of Excellence. Schwarzman — a l...

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Democracy is for sale, says “The Great Hack” director Karim Amer from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

In this live interview, Recode's Kara Swisher talks with former Cambridge Analytica COO Julian Wheatland, early Facebook investor Roger McNamee, and the director and writer of the new Netflix docum...

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Why one investor is 'cringing' at tech IPOs (Maha Ibrahim, general partner, Canaan) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Maha Ibrahim, a general partner at Canaan Partners, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about her more than 17 years in venture capital, joining Canaan right before the first dot-com bubble burst. Ibr...

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Recode Decode: How Reid Hoffman would fix social media (Live) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Reid Hoffman, the co-founder of LinkedIn and a general partner at Greylock Partners, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher in front of a live audience at the Anti-Defamation League conference "Never Is ...

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Recode Decode: NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Bill de Blasio, the mayor of New York City, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about why he's still running for the Democratic nomination in 2020, the threat of job automation and his proposed "robot...

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Megan Rapinoe still isn’t going to the White House, even if Trump invites her from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

On the 400th episode of Recode Decode, Megan Rapinoe, the co-captain of the US Women's National Soccer Team, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher. This live conversation was recorded at the Mobile Mark...

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What Amazon should buy next (Scott Galloway, author, “The Four”) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

New York University professor Scott Galloway returns to the podcast to talk with Recode’s Kara Swisher about his first book, “The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google,” which...

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Recode Decode: Greta Van Susteren is not giving up on social media from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Former cable news anchor Greta Van Susteren talks with Recode's Kara Swisher and SKDK's Hilary Rosen about her new book, "Everything You Need to Know about Social Media (Without Having to Call a Ki...

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Recode Decode: 2020 presidential candidate Marianne Williamson from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Author and spiritual teacher Marianne Williamson talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about her campaign to be the Democratic nominee for president in 2020. Williamson explains why she's still in the r...

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Reddit CEO Steve Huffman: “Would I love to see the government F our largest competitors? Yeah!” from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Reddit CEO Steve Huffman talks with Recode's Kara Swisher in this live interview recorded at Manny's in San Francisco. Huffman co-founded the company in 2005, left it in 2009, and returned in 2015 ...

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The race for self-driving cars is on (Chris Urmson, CEO, Aurora) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Chris Urmson, the CEO of Aurora and former CTO of self-driving cars at Google, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about when autonomous vehicles will replace human-driven ones. Urmson, who started wo...

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Recode Decode: magazine mogul Tina Brown from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Tina Brown — the former editor of Vanity Fair, the New Yorker, the Daily Beast and more — talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about her new book, "The Vanity Fair Diaries: 1983 - 1992." In the book, s...

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Recode Decode: The Wing CEO Audrey Gelman from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Audrey Gelman, the co-founder and CEO of women's coworking space The Wing, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about the company's new hiring network for its members, and how it can combat bias in hir...

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How Stitch Fix uses data to sell more clothes, and why CEO Katrina Lake hopes retail has a future from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Stitch Fix founder and CEO Katrina Lake talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about the future of fashion, how the company has changed in the past nine years, and the rarity of female tech CEOs. In this...

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Venture capital is headed for a ‘huge, rude awakening' (Chamath Palihapitiya, CEO, Social Capital) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Social Capital CEO Chamath Palihapitiya talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about the future of capitalism and investing, which he says will look less and less like traditional venture capital, as fir...

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Recode Decode: Stacey Abrams, candidate for governor, Georgia from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Stacey Abrams, a candidate running for governor of Georgia and former minority leader of its general assembly, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher and SKDK's Hilary Rosen about the early stages of the...

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Recode Decode: Microsoft President Brad Smith from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Microsoft President Brad Smith talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher about his new book, co-authored with Carol Ann Browne, Tools and Weapons: The Promise and the Peril of the Digital Age. They discuss ...

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Rep. Adam Schiff on the Mueller investigation, deepfakes, and the dangers posed by Russia and China from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Congressman Adam Schiff, who represents California’s 28th district and chairs the House Intelligence Committee, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about the 2020 election, the Russia investigation, a...

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The future of tech jobs in coal country from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Recode’s Kara Swisher heads to Louisville, Ky., to talk about the future of work with a panel of local-minded techies: Interapt CEO Ankur Gopal, Code Louisville founder Rider Rodriguez, TechHire Ea...

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Recode Decode: Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO, Anti-Defamation League from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Jonathan Greenblatt, the CEO of the Anti-Defamation League, talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher about how the century-old nonprofit is evolving to fight antisemitism and other forms of extremism in th...

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Recode Decode: Why workers need to be part of the conversation about UBI and artificial intelligence from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Former New York Times labor reporter Steve Greenhouse talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his most recent book, Beaten Down, Worked Up: The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor. Greenhous...

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Why 2020 presidential candidate Andrew Yang doesn't want to break up Google from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Entrepreneur and Venture for America founder Andrew Yang talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his campaign to be the Democratic nominee in the 2020 presidential race. In this episode: Being "the ...

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Lyft will always have human drivers (Taggart Matthiesen, director of product, Lyft) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Lyft Director of Product Taggart Matthiesen talks with Recode’s Johana Bhuiyan about the ride-hailing company’s push into self-driving cars. Matthiesen predicts that Lyft will slowly evolve into a ...

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Recode Decode: Katy Tur, author, ‘Unbelievable.’ from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

MSNBC anchor Katy Tur talks with Recode's Kara Swisher and SKDK's Hilary Rosen about her new book, "Unbelievable: My Front-Row Seat to the Craziest Campaign in American History." While she was at N...

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Recode Decode: "The Enlightened Capitalists" author James O'Toole. from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

James O'Toole, a professor emeritus at the University of Southern California, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his book, The Enlightened Capitalists: Cautionary Tales of Business Pioneers Who...

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Why Senator Michael Bennet believes he can win the presidency in 2020 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Michael Bennet, the senior U.S. Senator from Colorado, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about the intersection of social media and politics, and running for president in 2020. In this episode: Denv...

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You don't have to lead like Steve Jobs (Chris Kuenne and John Danner, authors, 'Built for Growth') from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Chris Kuenne and John Danner talk with Recode's Kara Swisher about their new book, "Built for Growth: How Builder Personality Shapes Your Business, Your Team, and Your Ability to Win." Kuenne and D...

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Recode Decode: Ray Dalio, author, 'Principles: Life and Work' from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Ray Dalio, the founder of the world's largest hedge fund Bridgewater Associates, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his new book, "Principles: Life and Work." In it, he lays out how he makes sm...

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Recode Decode: Psychologist Jennifer Eberhardt from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Jennifer Eberhardt, professor of psychology at Stanford University, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about her most recent book, Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Thi...

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Mayor Pete Buttigieg on systemic racism, regulating tech, and the divided Democratic Party from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Ind., talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his campaign for president of the United States. In this episode: Systemic racism and Buttigieg's "Douglass Pla...

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What tech gets wrong about harassment (Erica Baker, director of engineering, Kickstarter; Sarah Kunst, CEO, ProDay) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Diversity advocate and Kickstarter director Erica Baker and ProDay CEO Sarah Kunst talk with Recode's Kara Swisher about the conditions that led so many venture capitalists to abuse their power ove...

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Recode Decode: Luther Lowe, Yelp; Beth Wilkinson, Wilkinson Walsh Eskovitz from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Recode's Kara Swisher and SKDK's Hilary Rosen talk about tech, regulation and politics with two special guests: Luther Lowe, the vice president of public policy at Yelp, and Beth Wilkinson, the co-...

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Recode Decode: Lime president Joe Kraus from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Lime President Joe Kraus talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about how he came to Lime after a long career in both startups and venture capital, the company's pivot from bikes to scooters and the "unb...

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Harley-Davidson CEO Matthew Levatich (Live at Code 2019) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Harley-Davidson president and CEO Matthew Levatich talks with Recode's Kara Swisher live onstage at the 2019 Code Conference. In this episode: The impact of tariffs on Harley-Davidson’s global busi...

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How Uber is trying to fix itself (Frances Frei, SVP of leadership and strategy, Uber) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Live onstage: Uber SVP Frances Frei talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher about the future of the beleaguered ride-hailing company. Frei came to Uber from Harvard Business School, where she studied lead...

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Recode Decode: David Rosenblatt, CEO, 1stdibs from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

1stdibs CEO David Rosenblatt explains how his company, a marketplace for rare luxury products, made the transition from an advertising to e-commerce. Unlike other executives in the commerce space, ...

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Recode Decode: Gro Intelligence CEO Sara Menker from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Gro Intelligence founder and CEO Sara Menker talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about the growing field of agriculture technology and how farmers around the world are using data. She also talks about...

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Writer Taffy Brodesser-Akner on Gwyneth Paltrow, "Fleishman Is in Trouble," and divorce in the age of Tinder from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Writer Taffy Brodesser-Akner talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about her popular profiles of celebrities such as Gwyneth Paltrow and her new novel, "Fleishman Is in Trouble." In this episode: Why Br...

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Government should fight tech’s ‘corporate villainy’ (Cory Booker, U.S. Senator) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

New Jersey Senator Cory Booker talks with Recode’s Tony Romm about the current state of politics under President Trump and how he thinks the U.S. government should respond to the tech sector. Booke...

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Recode Decode: Can Silicon Valley get its mojo back? (Live) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Kara Swisher joins venture capitalist Shervin Pishevar, theBoardlist founder Sukhinder Singh Cassidy and Uptake CEO Brad Keywell in this live discussion about tech culture from the 2017 Vanity Fair...

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Recode Decode: Huawei's chief security officer in the US, Andy Purdy from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Andy Purdy, the chief security officer for Huawei Technologies USA, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher. They discuss the trade and security disputes between the US and Chinese governments, the increa...

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Journalist Carole Cadwalladr on Facebook, Brexit, and "techno-fascism" from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Carole Cadwalladr, a reporter for the Guardian and Observer, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about her investigations into the Cambridge Analytica scandal and the links between tech and political ...

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How humans and AI can work together (Tolga Kurtoglu, CEO, PARC) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

PARC CEO Tolga Kurtoglu talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher about leading the iconic Silicon Valley research and development firm, formerly known as Xerox PARC, which works with companies and governme...

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Recode Decode: Walter Isaacson, author, 'Leonardo da Vinci' from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Author Walter Isaacson talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his new biography of Renaissance artist and inventor Leonardo da Vinci, which he describes has a "culmination" of themes he explored in...

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Recode Decode: CDA 230 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Recode's Kara Swisher convenes a panel of experts to talk about section 230 of the Communications Decency Act: cybersecurity law professor Jeff Kosseff, author of "The Twenty Six Words That Created...

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Long-Term Stock Exchange founder Eric Ries (Live at Code 2019) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Eric Ries, the founder of the Long-Term Stock Exchange and author of The Lean Startup, talks with Vox.com's Ezra Klein at the 2019 Code Conference. In this episode: The LTSE’s recent SEC approval; ...

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What Russians really think of America (Lisa Dickey, author, 'Bears in the Streets') from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

"Bears in the Streets" author Lisa Dickey talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about her new book, which chronicles three trips to Russia at three very different times in its history — 1995, 2005 and 2...

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Recode Decode: Tim O'Reilly, author, 'WTF?' from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

O’Reilly Media founder Tim O’Reilly talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher about his new book, “WTF? What’s the Future and Why It’s Up to Us.” O'Reilly argues that society could be headed for either the ...

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Recode Decode: "Cult of the Dead Cow" author Joe Menn from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Writer Joe Menn talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his most recent book, "Cult of the Dead Cow: How the Original Hacking Supergroup Might Just Save the World." In this episode: How Menn started...

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"Russian Doll" star Natasha Lyonne and Netflix content VP Cindy Holland (Live at Code 2019) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Actor and producer Natasha Lyonne (Russian Doll, Orange Is the New Black) and Netflix's vice president of original content Cindy Holland talk with Recode's Kara Swisher at the 2019 Code Conference....

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Silicon Valley should think like Spider-Man (Reid Hoffman, partner, Greylock) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman, now a venture capitalist at Greylock Partners, talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher about why Silicon Valley has remained the epicenter of tech for decades and what’s nex...

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Recode Decode: Susan Wojcicki, CEO, YouTube from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about how YouTube has grown since she assumed that role in 2014, and how it's making original content differently than other video platfo...

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Recode Decode: Index Ventures' Mike Volpi and Danny Rimer from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Mike Volpi and Danny Rimer, the co-founders of the San Francisco office of Index Ventures, talk with Recode's Kara Swisher. In this episode: Volpi and Rimer's backgrounds and the early days of the ...

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Rockfeller Foundation president Raj Shah and Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon (Live at Code 2019) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

In these interviews from the 2019 Code Conference, Rockfeller Foundation president Raj Shah and Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon talk with Recode's Teddy Schleifer. In the Shah interview: Rising ine...

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Uber can change (Adam Lashinsky, author, 'Wild Ride') from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Fortune Executive Editor Adam Lashinsky talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his new book "Wild Ride: Inside Uber's Quest for World Domination." In this live interview, recorded after Travis Kala...

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Recode Decode: Ilene Chaiken, showrunner, ‘Empire’ from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Ilene Chaiken, the creator of “The L Word” and showrunner for “Empire,” talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher at the 2017 edition of Werk It, WNYC’s women-in-podcasting festival. Chaiken explains how sh...

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Recode Decode: Rep. Ro Khanna from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

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Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian (Live at Code 2019) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian talks with Recode's Kara Swisher and Jason Del Rey at the 2019 Code Conference. In this episode: How the Boeing 737 Max crashes affect the aviation industry; innovati...

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Cecile Richards, president, Planned Parenthood Federation of America (Code Conference 2017) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

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Recode Decode: Why Shonda Rhimes left ABC for Netflix (Live) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

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Recode Decode: Andreessen Horowitz's Scott Kupor from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

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MIT Media Lab director Joi Ito on the problem with tech people who want to solve problems from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

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How to shift a big tech company to the cloud (Mark Hurd, co-CEO, Oracle) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

In this live interview, Oracle co-CEO Mark Hurd talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about how Oracle transitioned its business to the cloud, which is the fastest-growing segment of all enterprise spen...

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Recode Decode: Jared Leto from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

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Recode Decode: Why Silicon Valley loves "biohacking" and intermittent fasting from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Inspired by the trendiness of intermittent fasting in the tech community, Kara Swisher's executive producer, Erica Anderson, talks with three eating habit experts — a biohacker, an academic, and an...

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Instagram's Adam Mosseri, Facebook's Andrew Bosworth, and former tech insiders on the outside (Live at Code 2019) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

In these live interviews from the 2019 Code Conference, Casey Newton first talks to Instagram boss Adam Mosseri and Facebook's head of AR and VR, Andrew "Boz" Bosworth; then; later in the show, he ...

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Jill Soloway, creator, 'Transparent' (Code Conference 2017) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

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Recode Decode: Ellen Pao, author, “Reset” from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

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Recode Decode: Stanford University's Larry Diamond from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

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Fair Fight Action founder Stacey Abrams and CEO Lauren Groh-Wargo (Live at Code 2019) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Georgia politician Stacey Abrams and her former campaign manager Lauren Groh-Wargo, now the co-founders of Fair Fight Action, talk with Recode's Kara Swisher and Vox.com's Ezra Klein at the 2019 Co...

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Google is God, Facebook is love and Amazon will be worth $1 trillion (Scott Galloway, founder, L2) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

L2 founder and New York University professor Scott Galloway talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about how the biggest companies in tech are disrupting retail, jobs, advertising and more. Galloway says...

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Recode Decode: Sally Quinn, author, "Finding Magic" from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

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Recode Decode: Rep. Lauren Underwood from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

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RAICES immigration activists Jonathan Ryan and Erika Andiola (Live at Code 2019) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Jonathan Ryan and Erika Andiola, the CEO and chief advocacy officer at RAICES, talk with Vox.com's Ezra Klein at the 2019 Code Conference. In this episode: The current situation at the US-Mexico bo...

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Hillary Clinton, former U.S. Secretary of State (Code Conference 2017) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

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Recode Decode: Maggie Haberman, New York Times, and David Fahrenthold, Washington Post from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

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Recode Decode: Pearson CEO John Fallon from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

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Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy (Live at Code 2019) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Andy Jassy, the CEO of Amazon's cloud computing service AWS, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher at the 2019 Code Conference. In this episode: How Jassy came to work at Amazon 22 years ago; how Jeff B...

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Did Instagram copy Snapchat? (Kevin Systrom, CEO, Instagram) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Instagram CEO and co-founder Kevin Systrom talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about why he's still working at Facebook five years after it bought his company for $1 billion. Systrom shares what he ha...

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Recode Decode: Maha Ibrahim, general partner, Canaan from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Maha Ibrahim, a general partner at Canaan Partners, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about her more than 17 years in venture capital, joining Canaan right before the first dot-com bubble burst. Ibr...

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Recode Decode: “The Great Hack” director Karim Amer from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

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Twitter's Vijaya Gadde and Kayvon Beykpour (Live at Code 2019) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Vijaya Gadde, who leads the legal and trust and safety teams at Twitter, and Periscope co-founder Kayvon Beykpour, who's now the company's head of product, talk with Recode's Kara Swisher and Peter...

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Why cute robots are important for the entire tech industry (Boris Sofman, CEO, Anki) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Anki CEO Boris Sofman talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher about the future of robotics and why his company is starting with robots that entertain people: The artificially intelligent toy cars Anki Dri...

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Recode Decode: Scott Galloway, author, “The Four” from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

New York University professor Scott Galloway returns to the podcast to talk with Recode’s Kara Swisher about his first book, “The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google,” which...

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Recode Decode: Reddit CEO Steve Huffman from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

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The Intercept's Mehdi Hasan on cowardly journalists, liberal racism, and impeaching Trump from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Mehdi Hasan, a columnist at the Intercept and host of its weekly podcast Deconstructed, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher. In this episode: How Hasan got into journalism; the timidity of the America...

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Can Facebook help you talk to businesses? (David Marcus, VP of Messaging, Facebook) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Facebook's messaging products boss, David Marcus, talks with Recode's Kurt Wagner about how the company is trying turn its Messenger app into a hub for interactions between companies and consumers....

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Recode Decode: Chris Urmson, CEO, Aurora from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Chris Urmson, the CEO of Aurora and former CTO of self-driving cars at Google, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about when autonomous vehicles will replace human-driven ones. Urmson, who started wo...

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Recode Decode: Stitch Fix CEO Katrina Lake from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Stitch Fix founder and CEO Katrina Lake talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about the future of fashion, how the company has changed in the past nine years, and the rarity of female tech CEOs. In this...

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CNN's Jim Sciutto: "We're already in a war" with Russia and China from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

CNN's chief national security correspondent Jim Sciutto talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his new book, The Shadow War: Inside Russia’s and China's Secret Operations to Defeat America. In this...

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America's immigration policies are hurting startups (Patrick Collison, CEO, Stripe) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Stripe CEO Patrick Collison talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about how the company he and his brother started in 2010 evolved from a service for other small startups into a global payments platform...

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Recode Decode: Chamath Palihapitiya, CEO, Social Capital from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Social Capital CEO Chamath Palihapitiya talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about the future of capitalism and investing, which he says will look less and less like traditional venture capital, as fir...

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Recode Decode: Rep. Adam Schiff from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Congressman Adam Schiff, who represents California’s 28th district and chairs the House Intelligence Committee, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about the 2020 election, the Russia investigation, a...

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Michele Madansky's new research into sexual harassment in the tech industry from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Media market research consultant Michele Madansky talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about The Elephant in the Valley, her study into the prevalence of harassment in tech that was first conducted in ...

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Behind the scenes of 'The Handmaid's Tale' from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

"The Handmaid's Tale" creator and showrunner Bruce Miller talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his new adaptation of the dystopian Margaret Atwood novel, which recently debuted on Hulu. Miller di...

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Recode Decode: The future of tech jobs in coal country from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Recode’s Kara Swisher heads to Louisville, Ky., to talk about the future of work with a panel of local-minded techies: Interapt CEO Ankur Gopal, Code Louisville founder Rider Rodriguez, TechHire Ea...

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Recode Decode: Senator Michael Bennet from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Michael Bennet, the senior U.S. Senator from Colorado, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about the intersection of social media and politics, and running for president in 2020. In this episode: Denv...

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Girls Who Code CEO Reshma Saujani on the real solutions to tech's diversity problems from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Girls Who Code CEO Reshma Saujani talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about the challenges facing women in the tech industry and what everyone can do to make progress happen faster. In this episode: T...

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Sheryl Sandberg on setbacks, grief and 'Option B' from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about her new book, "Option B," which she wrote after the sudden death of her husband, entrepreneur Dave Goldberg. This latest book is ...

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Recode Decode: Taggart Matthiesen, director of product, Lyft from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Lyft Director of Product Taggart Matthiesen talks with Recode’s Johana Bhuiyan about the ride-hailing company’s push into self-driving cars. Matthiesen predicts that Lyft will slowly evolve into a ...

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Recode Decode: Mayor Pete Buttigieg from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Ind., talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his campaign for president of the United States. In this episode: Systemic racism and Buttigieg's "Douglass Pla...

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Susan Hockfield: The real answer to sustainable energy might be a virus-built battery from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Former MIT president Susan Hockfield talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about her new book, The Age of Living Machines: How Biology Will Build the Next Technology Revolution. In this episode: How Hoc...

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FCC Chairman Ajit Pai: We need a 'lighter touch' to internet regulation from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

FCC Chairman Ajit Pai talks with Recode's Tony Romm about his first three months on the job and what critics of his plan to roll back Obama-era net neutrality rules get wrong. Pai says the FCC shou...

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Recode Decode: Chris Kuenne and John Danner, authors, 'Built for Growth' from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Chris Kuenne and John Danner talk with Recode's Kara Swisher about their new book, "Built for Growth: How Builder Personality Shapes Your Business, Your Team, and Your Ability to Win." Kuenne and D...

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Recode Decode: Harley-Davidson CEO Matthew Levatich (Live at Code 2019) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Harley-Davidson president and CEO Matthew Levatich talks with Recode's Kara Swisher live onstage at the 2019 Code Conference. In this episode: The impact of tariffs on Harley-Davidson’s global busi...

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Investors Mark Cuban and Steve Case and talent agent Scooter Braun (Live) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

In these live interviews recorded at the 2019 SALT Conference in Las Vegas, Recode's Kara Swisher talks to investors Mark Cuban and Steve Case about the future of entrepreneurship and talent agent ...

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How 'Dear Evan Hansen' brought social media to Broadway from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Stacey Mindich and Steven Levenson, the producer and book writer of "Dear Evan Hansen," talk with Recode's Kara Swisher about how the hit Broadway musical depicts the current state of social media ...

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Recode Decode: Erica Baker, director of engineering, Kickstarter; Sarah Kunst, CEO, ProDay from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Diversity advocate and Kickstarter director Erica Baker and ProDay CEO Sarah Kunst talk with Recode's Kara Swisher about the conditions that led so many venture capitalists to abuse their power ove...

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Recode Decode: Writer Taffy Brodesser-Akner from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Writer Taffy Brodesser-Akner talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about her popular profiles of celebrities such as Gwyneth Paltrow and her new novel, "Fleishman Is in Trouble." In this episode: Why Br...

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DuckDuckGo CEO Gabe Weinberg on how Congress (and you) can fix online privacy from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

DuckDuckGo CEO Gabe Weinberg talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher in this live conversation recorded at Made By We in New York City. In this episode: What DuckDuckGo does; why Weinberg started the comp...

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How 'Silicon Valley' stays current (Mike Judge, Thomas Middleditch, Kumail Nanijani and more) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

The creators and most of the cast of HBO's 'Silicon Valley' talk with Recode's Kara Swisher in this live interview, recorded in San Francisco after the premiere of the first two episodes of Season ...

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Recode Decode: Frances Frei, SVP of leadership and strategy, Uber from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Live onstage: Uber SVP Frances Frei talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher about the future of the beleaguered ride-hailing company. Frei came to Uber from Harvard Business School, where she studied lead...

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Recode Decode: Journalist Carole Cadwalladr from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Carole Cadwalladr, a reporter for the Guardian and Observer, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about her investigations into the Cambridge Analytica scandal and the links between tech and political ...

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Facebook’s former security boss Alex Stamos and Twitter co-founder Ev Williams (Live) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Alex Stamos, the former Chief Security Officer at Facebook, and Ev Williams, the co-founder of Twitter and CEO of Medium, talk with Recode's Kara Swisher in these live interviews from the 2019 Coll...

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'Silicon Valley’ is more than ‘d*ck jokes’ (Matt Ross, actor/director) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Actor Matt Ross talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher about playing Hooli CEO Gavin Belson on HBO’s “Silicon Valley,” which just started its fourth season. Ross, who previously played Alby Grant on “Big...

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Recode Decode: Cory Booker, U.S. Senator from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

New Jersey Senator Cory Booker talks with Recode’s Tony Romm about the current state of politics under President Trump and how he thinks the U.S. government should respond to the tech sector. Booke...

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Recode Decode: Long-Term Stock Exchange founder Eric Ries (Live at Code 2019) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Eric Ries, the founder of the Long-Term Stock Exchange and author of The Lean Startup, talks with Vox.com's Ezra Klein at the 2019 Code Conference. In this episode: The LTSE’s recent SEC approval; ...

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Anand Giridharadas on the phony philanthropy of tech billionaires from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Winners Take All author Anand Giridharadas talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher in this live conversation recorded at Made By We in New York City.  In this episode: Why Giridharadas wrote the book; the...

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How tech can reshape American politics (Steve Hilton, CEO, Crowdpac) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Crowdpac CEO Steve Hilton talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher about how his website is making it easier for anyone to explore running for office and to collect donations for political causes and campa...

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Recode Decode: Tolga Kurtoglu, CEO, PARC from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

PARC CEO Tolga Kurtoglu talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher about leading the iconic Silicon Valley research and development firm, formerly known as Xerox PARC, which works with companies and governme...

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Recode Decode: "Russian Doll" star Natasha Lyonne and Netflix content VP Cindy Holland (Live at Code 2019) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Actor and producer Natasha Lyonne (Russian Doll, Orange Is the New Black) and Netflix's vice president of original content Cindy Holland talk with Recode's Kara Swisher at the 2019 Code Conference....

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Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse on why big banks should get into cryptocurrencies from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about bringing legitimate financial institutions into the formerly-sketchy world of blockchain and cryptocurrencies. In this episode: G...

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Rep. Ro Khanna: Silicon Valley should give back to all Americans from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Congressman Ro Khanna talks with Recode's Kara Swisher and Tony Romm about why the people who have benefitted most from technology have a civic duty to give back to their country. Rep. Khanna's dis...

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Recode Decode: Lisa Dickey, author, 'Bears in the Streets' from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

"Bears in the Streets" author Lisa Dickey talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about her new book, which chronicles three trips to Russia at three very different times in its history — 1995, 2005 and 2...

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Recode Decode: Rockfeller Foundation president Raj Shah and Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon (Live at Code 2019) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

In these interviews from the 2019 Code Conference, Rockfeller Foundation president Raj Shah and Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon talk with Recode's Teddy Schleifer. In the Shah interview: Rising ine...

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How “Good to Great” author Jim Collins helped Amazon rescue itself from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Jim Collins, the author of business books such as Built to Last and Good to Great, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his latest work, Turning the Flywheel. In this episode: Collins’ background...

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Diversity isn't an 'add-on' (Laura Weidman Powers, CEO, Code2040) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Code2040 CEO and co-founder Laura Weidman Powers talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about the mistakes employees and managers make when they talk about diversity and inclusion in the workplace. Compa...

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Recode Decode: Reid Hoffman, partner, Greylock from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman, now a venture capitalist at Greylock Partners, talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher about why Silicon Valley has remained the epicenter of tech for decades and what’s nex...

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Recode Decode: Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian (Live at Code 2019) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian talks with Recode's Kara Swisher and Jason Del Rey at the 2019 Code Conference. In this episode: How the Boeing 737 Max crashes affect the aviation industry; innovati...

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Preet Bharara on the Mueller report, Constitutional crises and Twitter fatigue from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Preet Bharara, the former U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York and host of the podcast Stay Tuned With Preet, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher. In this episode: Bharara’s background;...

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Why CEOs need to stand up to Trump (Bijan Sabet, general partner, Spark Capital) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Spark Capital General Partner Bijan Sabet talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher about being a venture capitalist based on the East Coast, and how he became an early investor in companies like Twitter, T...

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Recode Decode: Adam Lashinsky, author, 'Wild Ride' from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Fortune Executive Editor Adam Lashinsky talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his new book "Wild Ride: Inside Uber's Quest for World Domination." In this live interview, recorded after Travis Kala...

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Recode Decode: MIT Media Lab director Joi Ito from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Joichi "Joi" Ito, the director of the MIT Media Lab, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about engineers who over-simplify the world's problems, the Media Lab's role in "surveillance capitalism," and ...

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Former Secretary of Defense Ash Carter on surveillance, AI ethics, and how to regulate tech from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

In this live conversation recorded at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, Recode's Kara Swisher talks with Ash Carter, the former Secretary of Defense under President Obama who now r...

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Nextdoor CEO Nirav Tolia talks about adversity and Uber CEO Travis Kalanick from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Nextdoor CEO Nirav Tolia talks with Recode's Kurt Wagner about how he and his team built a social network for neighborhoods, with a focus on trust and privacy that forced the company to grow slower...

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Recode Decode: Cecile Richards, president, Planned Parenthood Federation of America (Code Conference 2017) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

In this special bonus episode from the 2017 Code Conference, Planned Parenthood Federation of America President Cecile Richards talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about how the nonprofit has dealt wi...

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Recode Decode: Instagram's Adam Mosseri, Facebook's Andrew Bosworth, and former tech insiders on the outside (Live at Code 2019) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

In these live interviews from the 2019 Code Conference, Casey Newton first talks to Instagram boss Adam Mosseri and Facebook's head of AR and VR, Andrew "Boz" Bosworth; then; later in the show, he ...

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BONUS: Why Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes wants the government to break it up from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his recent New York Times op-ed, "It's Time to Break Up Facebook." In this episode: Why Hughes wrote the column; how he met M...

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Don’t have anything nice to say? Say it! (Kim Malone Scott, author, ‘Radical Candor’) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

"Radical Candor" author and CEO coach Kim Malone Scott talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about how to be a better manager and leader. Based on her personal experiences at Apple, Google and several t...

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Recode Decode: Mark Hurd, co-CEO, Oracle from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

In this live interview, Oracle co-CEO Mark Hurd talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about how Oracle transitioned its business to the cloud, which is the fastest-growing segment of all enterprise spen...

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Recode Decode: Fair Fight Action founder Stacey Abrams and CEO Lauren Groh-Wargo (Live at Code 2019) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Georgia politician Stacey Abrams and her former campaign manager Lauren Groh-Wargo, now the co-founders of Fair Fight Action, talk with Recode's Kara Swisher and Vox.com's Ezra Klein at the 2019 Co...

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Esther Wojcicki on how she raised the CEOs of YouTube and 23andMe from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Author and journalism educator Esther Wojcicki, Silicon Valley’s “mother of dragons,” talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about her new book, How to Raise Successful People: Simple Lessons for Radical...

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What tech can do about homelessness (Daniel Lurie, CEO, Tipping Point Community) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Tipping Point Community CEO Daniel Lurie talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his organization's efforts to fight homelessness in San Francisco. He says it's all too easy to "not see" the incredi...

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Recode Decode: Jill Soloway, creator, 'Transparent' (Code Conference 2017) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

In this special bonus episode from the 2017 Code Conference, Jill Soloway, the creator of the Amazon TV series "Transparent," talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about their new show, "I Love Dick," w...

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Recode Decode: RAICES immigration activists Jonathan Ryan and Erika Andiola (Live at Code 2019) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Jonathan Ryan and Erika Andiola, the CEO and chief advocacy officer at RAICES, talk with Vox.com's Ezra Klein at the 2019 Code Conference. In this episode: The current situation at the US-Mexico bo...

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Sam Harris on religion, politics, and making "enemies" online. from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Writer and podcaster Sam Harris talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his views on Islam, social media, and President Trump. In this episode: Harris’ background; why he wrote his first book; the c...

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How HBO's 'Veep' is reacting to Trump (Live at SXSW) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

"Veep" actors Tim Simons and Matt Walsh and showrunner David Mandel talk with Recode's Kara Swisher about the upcoming sixth season of the HBO political satire. Speaking in front of a live audience...

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Recode Decode: Scott Galloway, founder, L2 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

L2 founder and New York University professor Scott Galloway talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about how the biggest companies in tech are disrupting retail, jobs, advertising and more. Galloway says...

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Recode Decode: Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy (Live at Code 2019) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Andy Jassy, the CEO of Amazon's cloud computing service AWS, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher at the 2019 Code Conference. In this episode: How Jassy came to work at Amazon 22 years ago; how Jeff B...

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Tristan Harris says tech is "downgrading" humanity — but we can fix it from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Tristan Harris, the co-founder of the Center for Humane Technology, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about the latest problem he and his peers are trying to solve: "Human downgrading." In this epis...

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Crooked Media founders: We're podcasting the Trump resistance (Live at SXSW) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Crooked Media Founders Jon Favreau, Tommy Vietor and Jon Lovett talk with Recode's Kara Swisher about their hit podcast, "Pod Save America," in a live interview at South by Southwest 2017. Having p...

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Recode Decode: Hillary Clinton, former U.S. Secretary of State (Code Conference 2017) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

In this special bonus episode from the 2017 Code Conference, former U.S. Secretary of State and 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton talks with Recode's Kara Swisher and The Verge's Walt Mos...

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Recode Decode: Twitter's Vijaya Gadde and Kayvon Beykpour (Live at Code 2019) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Vijaya Gadde, who leads the legal and trust and safety teams at Twitter, and Periscope co-founder Kayvon Beykpour, who's now the company's head of product, talk with Recode's Kara Swisher and Peter...

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Scott Galloway on love, Chipotle, and the other forms of happiness from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

NYU professor and Pivot co-host Scott Galloway talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his new book, The Algebra of Happiness. In this episode: Galloway’s past books; why the new book is about happi...

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Who's buying whom in media and tech (Quincy Smith, partner, Code Advisors) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Code Advisors Partner Quincy Smith talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about the current state of mergers and acquisitions in tech and media. Smith, who previously worked at Netscape and CBS Interacti...

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Recode Decode: Kevin Systrom, CEO, Instagram from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Instagram CEO and co-founder Kevin Systrom talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about why he's still working at Facebook five years after it bought his company for $1 billion. Systrom shares what he ha...

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Recode Decode: The Intercept's Mehdi Hasan from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Mehdi Hasan, a columnist at the Intercept and host of its weekly podcast Deconstructed, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher. In this episode: How Hasan got into journalism; the timidity of the America...

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How Mayor London Breed wants Big Tech to help fix San Francisco from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

San Francisco Mayor London Breed talks with Recode's Kara Swisher in this live interview recorded at Manny's in the Mission District. In this episode: How does Breed feel about being mayor?; her bi...

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How to beat Amazon (Ron Johnson, CEO, Enjoy) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Enjoy CEO Ron Johnson talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his long career in commerce, including 15 years at Target, and his 12 years at Apple, where he created the Apple Store. Johnson's curren...

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Recode Decode: Boris Sofman, CEO, Anki from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Anki CEO Boris Sofman talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher about the future of robotics and why his company is starting with robots that entertain people: The artificially intelligent toy cars Anki Dri...

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Recode Decode: CNN's Jim Sciutto from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

CNN's chief national security correspondent Jim Sciutto talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his new book, The Shadow War: Inside Russia’s and China's Secret Operations to Defeat America. In this...

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Trash in space, diversity in STEM and artificial meat at TED 2019 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Kara Swisher's executive producer, Erica Anderson, talks with four TED Fellows at the 2019 TED Conference in Vancouver. In this collection of mini-interviews, you'll hear from biologist Danielle Le...

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The internet must be preserved (Brewster Kahle, chairman, The Internet Archive) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Entrepreneur and archivist Brewster Kahle talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about the 20th anniversary of the Internet Archive and why it's more important than ever to preserve our digital past. Kah...

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Recode Decode: David Marcus, VP of Messaging, Facebook from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Facebook's messaging products boss, David Marcus, talks with Recode's Kurt Wagner about how the company is trying turn its Messenger app into a hub for interactions between companies and consumers....

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Recode Decode: Michele Madansky from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Media market research consultant Michele Madansky talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about The Elephant in the Valley, her study into the prevalence of harassment in tech that was first conducted in ...

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Journalist Julia Angwin on being fired from The Markup, investigating Facebook and data-based news from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Julia Angwin, the former editor-in-chief of The Markup, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher in this live podcast recorded in Washington, DC. In this episode: How Angwin got into journalism; why weren’...

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How to make social media sane again (Sue Decker, Raftr founder, and Michael Dearing, investor) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Former Yahoo president Sue Decker and investor Michael Dearing talk with Recode's Kara Swisher about Raftr, Decker's recently launched social platform for sane, civil discussions about topics rangi...

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Recode Decode: Patrick Collison, CEO, Stripe from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Stripe CEO Patrick Collison talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about how the company he and his brother started in 2010 evolved from a service for other small startups into a global payments platform...

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Recode Decode: Girls Who Code CEO Reshma Saujani from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Girls Who Code CEO Reshma Saujani talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about the challenges facing women in the tech industry and what everyone can do to make progress happen faster. In this episode: T...

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Why thinking about your death five times a day is good for you from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

WeCroak co-founder Hansa Bergwall talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher about his mobile app, which reminds users of death five times a day.  In this episode: Why thinking about death is good for you; h...

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Silicon Valley is 'an isolated bubble' (Jeremy Liew, partner, Lightspeed Venture Partners) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Lightspeed Venture Partners' Jeremy Liew talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about being a venture capitalist in Silicon Valley at a time when the Valley no longer represents most tech consumers. Liew...

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Recode Decode: Behind the scenes of 'The Handmaid's Tale' from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

"The Handmaid's Tale" creator and showrunner Bruce Miller talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his new adaptation of the dystopian Margaret Atwood novel, which recently debuted on Hulu. Miller di...

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Recode Decode: Susan Hockfield from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Former MIT president Susan Hockfield talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about her new book, The Age of Living Machines: How Biology Will Build the Next Technology Revolution. In this episode: How Hoc...

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Why tech is "flunking" the diversity test from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Venture capitalist and prominent activist Freada Kapor Klein, the founder of Kapor Capital, talks with Recode's Teddy Schleifer about diversity in tech and impact investing. In this episode: In thi...

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Uber's looming 'existential crisis' (Brad Stone, author, 'The Upstarts’) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Bloomberg Tech journalist Brad Stone talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his latest book, "The Upstarts: How Uber, Airbnb, and the Killer Companies of the New Silicon Valley Are Changing the Wor...

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Recode Decode: Sheryl Sandberg from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about her new book, "Option B," which she wrote after the sudden death of her husband, entrepreneur Dave Goldberg. This latest book is ...

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Recode Decode: Investors Mark Cuban and Steve Case and talent agent Scooter Braun (Live) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

In these live interviews recorded at the 2019 SALT Conference in Las Vegas, Recode's Kara Swisher talks to investors Mark Cuban and Steve Case about the future of entrepreneurship and talent agent ...

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Ford CTO Ken Washington on self-driving cars, "creepy" AI and hovercrafts from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Ford CTO Ken Washington talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about AI and autonomous vehicles in this live interview recorded at the Studio Theatre in Washington, DC. In this episode: The current state...

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Countries that fear immigrants are killing innovation (Rolf Schrömgens, co-founder, Trivago) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Trivago co-founder and Managing Director Rolf Schrömgens talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about starting a search engine for hotels and why he thinks much larger rivals like Google are at a disadva...

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Recode Decode: FCC Chairman Ajit Pai from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

FCC Chairman Ajit Pai talks with Recode's Tony Romm about his first three months on the job and what critics of his plan to roll back Obama-era net neutrality rules get wrong. Pai says the FCC shou...

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Recode Decode: DuckDuckGo CEO Gabe Weinberg from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

DuckDuckGo CEO Gabe Weinberg talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher in this live conversation recorded at Made By We in New York City. In this episode: What DuckDuckGo does; why Weinberg started the comp...

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PBS CEO Paula Kerger on how to save public television from budget cuts from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Paula Kerger, the president and CEO of PBS, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about the state of public media as President Trump is trying to cut its federal funding. In this episode: How Kerger got...

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Facebook's News Feed is like junk food (Mike McCue, CEO, Flipboard) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Flipboard CEO Mike McCue talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about the recent relaunch of his company's news app, which will mixes human curation with algorithms to serve up magazine-like collections ...

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Recode Decode: How 'Dear Evan Hansen' brought social media to Broadway from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Stacey Mindich and Steven Levenson, the producer and book writer of "Dear Evan Hansen," talk with Recode's Kara Swisher about how the hit Broadway musical depicts the current state of social media ...

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Recode Decode: Facebook’s former security boss Alex Stamos and Twitter co-founder Ev Williams (Live) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Alex Stamos, the former Chief Security Officer at Facebook, and Ev Williams, the co-founder of Twitter and CEO of Medium, talk with Recode's Kara Swisher in these live interviews from the 2019 Coll...

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Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi says tech immunity "could be in jeopardy." from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about breaking up Big Tech, immigration, hate speech, and more. In this episode: Foreign influence on the 2016 election; prot...

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BONUS: 'Fun Home' author Alison Bechdel thought a fan was her Uber from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

"Fun Home" author and "Dykes to Watch Out For" creator Alison Bechdel talks with Recode's Kara Swisher in front of a live audience in San Francisco shortly after a performance of the Tony Award-win...

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Recode Decode: Mike Judge, Thomas Middleditch, Kumail Nanijani and more from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

The creators and most of the cast of HBO's 'Silicon Valley' talk with Recode's Kara Swisher in this live interview, recorded in San Francisco after the premiere of the first two episodes of Season ...

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Recode Decode: Anand Giridharadas from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Winners Take All author Anand Giridharadas talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher in this live conversation recorded at Made By We in New York City.  In this episode: Why Giridharadas wrote the book; the...

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"The Uninhabitable Earth" author David Wallace-Wells says tech is failing on climate change from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Journalist David Wallace-Wells talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his new book, The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming. In this episode: How Wallace-Wells got to writing about climate cha...

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We need robots to take our jobs (John Markoff, ex-reporter, The New York Times) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Technology journalist and former New York Times reporter John Markoff talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his nearly three-decade long career covering tech for the Times before retiring at the e...

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Recode Decode: Matt Ross, actor/director from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Actor Matt Ross talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher about playing Hooli CEO Gavin Belson on HBO’s “Silicon Valley,” which just started its fourth season. Ross, who previously played Alby Grant on “Big...

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Recode Decode: Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about bringing legitimate financial institutions into the formerly-sketchy world of blockchain and cryptocurrencies. In this episode: G...

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Meredith Whittaker and Kate Crawford: How AI could change your life from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

AI Now Institute founders Meredith Whittaker and Kate Crawford talk with Recode's Kara Swisher about artificial intelligence in this live interview recorded at the Studio Theatre in Washington, DC....

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How you get addicted to apps (Tristan Harris, founder, Time Well Spent) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Time Well Spent founder Tristan Harris talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about the persuasive techniques and tricks used by companies like Twitter, Google and Facebook to make people engage with the...

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Recode Decode: Steve Hilton, CEO, Crowdpac from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Crowdpac CEO Steve Hilton talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher about how his website is making it easier for anyone to explore running for office and to collect donations for political causes and campa...

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Recode Decode: “Good to Great” author Jim Collins from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Jim Collins, the author of business books such as Built to Last and Good to Great, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his latest work, Turning the Flywheel. In this episode: Collins’ background...

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Valerie Jarrett has some advice for Democrats running in 2020 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Valerie Jarrett, who was a senior adviser to President Barack Obama from 2009 to 2017, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about her new book Finding My Voice: My Journey to the West Wing and the Path...

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Social media makes us miserable (Tim Ferriss, author, "Tools of Titans") from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

"The 4-Hour Workweek" and "Tools of Titans" author Tim Ferriss talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his newest book, which compiles the life advice of the "titans" from tech, business and enterta...

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Recode Decode: Laura Weidman Powers, CEO, Code2040 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Code2040 CEO and co-founder Laura Weidman Powers talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about the mistakes employees and managers make when they talk about diversity and inclusion in the workplace. Compa...

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Recode Decode: Preet Bharara from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Preet Bharara, the former U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York and host of the podcast Stay Tuned With Preet, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher. In this episode: Bharara’s background;...

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Ashton Applewhite has a manifesto against ageism: "This Chair Rocks" from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Writer and activist Ashton Applewhite talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about her new book, "This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism." In this episode: What society gets wrong about aging; a re...

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Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx: The exit interview from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

U.S. Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx talks to Recode's Johana Bhuiyan about his last week in office and what he would do if given more time. In addition to self-driving car and drone regul...

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Recode Decode: Bijan Sabet, general partner, Spark Capital from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Spark Capital General Partner Bijan Sabet talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher about being a venture capitalist based on the East Coast, and how he became an early investor in companies like Twitter, T...

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Recode Decode: Former Secretary of Defense Ash Carter from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

In this live conversation recorded at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, Recode's Kara Swisher talks with Ash Carter, the former Secretary of Defense under President Obama who now r...

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Today, Explained host Sean Rameswaram explains the future of podcasts from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Today, Explained host Sean Rameswaram talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about the state of daily news podcasts and the future of the medium. In this episode: How Rameswaram got into public radio and...

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You don't need to own all your clothes (Jennifer Hyman, CEO, Rent the Runway) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Rent the Runway CEO and co-founder Jennifer Hyman talks with Recode's Kara Swisher and Jason Del Rey about her 50-year vision for changing consumer fashion habits. Now more than seven years old, Re...

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Recode Decode: Nextdoor CEO Nirav Tolia talks about adversity and Uber CEO Travis Kalanick from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Nextdoor CEO Nirav Tolia talks with Recode's Kurt Wagner about how he and his team built a social network for neighborhoods, with a focus on trust and privacy that forced the company to grow slower...

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Recode Decode: Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Chris Hughes, the co-founder of Facebook and former owner of The New Republic, talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher about his new book, “Fair Shot: Rethinking Inequality and How We Earn.” In it, Hughes...

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Backstage Capital founder Arlan Hamilton and Deeds Not Words founder Wendy Davis (live at SXSW) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Backstage Capital founder Arlan Hamilton and Deeds Not Words founder Wendy Davis talk with Recode's Kara Swisher in this live interview from South by Southwest 2019. In this episode: Youthful polit...

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Doctors should think like mechanics (Othman Laraki, CEO, Color) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Color Genomics co-founder and CEO Othman Laraki talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about why we're on the verge of a healthcare revolution. Laraki, whose company tests buyers' genes for certain hered...

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Recode Decode: Kim Malone Scott, author, ‘Radical Candor’ from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

"Radical Candor" author and CEO coach Kim Malone Scott talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about how to be a better manager and leader. Based on her personal experiences at Apple, Google and several t...

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Recode Decode: Esther Wojcicki from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Author and journalism educator Esther Wojcicki, Silicon Valley’s “mother of dragons,” talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about her new book, How to Raise Successful People: Simple Lessons for Radical...

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dtx CEO Tim Armstrong and Poshmark CEO Manish Chandra (live at An Evening With Code Commerce) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

In this episode, you'll hear two interviews from the latest edition of An Evening With Code Commerce in Las Vegas: First, the dtx company CEO Tim Armstrong talks with Recode's Kara Swisher and Jaso...

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Can social media bring us together again after ripping us apart? (Orkut Büyükkökten, Founder, Hello) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Social networking pioneer Orkut Büyükkökten talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about the eponymous social site, Orkut, which he built inside Google, and his new company, Hello. Büyükkökten says curre...

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Recode Decode: Daniel Lurie, CEO, Tipping Point Community from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Tipping Point Community CEO Daniel Lurie talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his organization's efforts to fight homelessness in San Francisco. He says it's all too easy to "not see" the incredi...

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Recode Decode: Sam Harris from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Writer and podcaster Sam Harris talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his views on Islam, social media, and President Trump. In this episode: Harris’ background; why he wrote his first book; the c...

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Richard Walker: The dark side of prosperity in San Francisco from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Historian and urbanist Richard Walker, a professor emeritus at UC Berkeley, talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher about his latest book, Pictures of a Gone City: Tech and the Dark Side of Prosperity in ...

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Tom Friedman: The internet is an 'open sewer’ from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Pulitzer Prize-winning author and New York Times columnist Tom Friedman talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his new book, "Thank You for Being Late: An Optimist's Guide to Thriving in the Age of...

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Recode Decode: How HBO's 'Veep' is reacting to Trump (Live at SXSW) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

"Veep" actors Tim Simons and Matt Walsh and showrunner David Mandel talk with Recode's Kara Swisher about the upcoming sixth season of the HBO political satire. Speaking in front of a live audience...

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Recode Decode: Tristan Harris from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Tristan Harris, the co-founder of the Center for Humane Technology, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about the latest problem he and his peers are trying to solve: "Human downgrading." In this epis...

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Margrethe Vestager, European Commissioner for Competition (Live at SXSW 2019) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

European Commissioner for Competition Margrethe Vestager talks with Recode's Kara Swisher in front of a live audience at South by Southwest 2019. In this episode: America's newfound appetite for te...

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Reddit CEO Steve Huffman: A 'toxic minority' ruins social media for everyone from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Reddit CEO and co-founder Steve Huffman talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about why he covertly edited the posts of some Donald Trump supporters, and why he regrets it now. Huffman acknowledges his ...

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Recode Decode: Crooked Media founders: We're podcasting the Trump resistance (Live at SXSW) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Crooked Media Founders Jon Favreau, Tommy Vietor and Jon Lovett talk with Recode's Kara Swisher about their hit podcast, "Pod Save America," in a live interview at South by Southwest 2017. Having p...

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Recode Decode: Trash in space, diversity in STEM and artificial meat at TED 2019 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Kara Swisher's executive producer, Erica Anderson, talks with four TED Fellows at the 2019 TED Conference in Vancouver. In this collection of mini-interviews, you'll hear from biologist Danielle Le...

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Senator Amy Klobuchar, 2020 U.S. presidential candidate from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Amy Klobuchar, the senior U.S. Senator from Minnesota who is running for the Democratic Party's nomination in the 2020 presidential race, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher in front of a live audienc...

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Wearables can save your life (Vic Gundotra, CEO, AliveCor) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

AliveCor CEO Vic Gundotra talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his long career in tech, including his start as a college dropout at Microsoft and his seven years leading Google's mobile and socia...

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Recode Decode: Quincy Smith, partner, Code Advisors from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Code Advisors Partner Quincy Smith talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about the current state of mergers and acquisitions in tech and media. Smith, who previously worked at Netscape and CBS Interacti...

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Recode Decode: Journalist Julia Angwin from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Julia Angwin, the former editor-in-chief of The Markup, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher in this live podcast recorded in Washington, DC. In this episode: How Angwin got into journalism; why weren’...

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Kathy Griffin on the notorious photo that changed her life from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Comedian Kathy Griffin talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about the notorious photo shoot that got her investigated by the Secret Service — and her new self-financed stand-up special, A Hell of a Sto...

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What Trump means for tech (Hilary Rosen and Juleanna Glover, political consultants) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Democratic political strategist Hilary Rosen and Republican corporate consultant Juleanna Glover talk with Recode's Kara Swisher about how Donald Trump's election to the presidency will affect the ...

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Recode Decode: Ron Johnson, CEO, Enjoy from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Enjoy CEO Ron Johnson talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his long career in commerce, including 15 years at Target, and his 12 years at Apple, where he created the Apple Store. Johnson's curren...

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Recode Decode: Why thinking about your death five times a day is good for you from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

WeCroak co-founder Hansa Bergwall talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher about his mobile app, which reminds users of death five times a day.  In this episode: Why thinking about death is good for you; h...

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YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki on child safety, toxic comments and the Google walkout from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

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Satirizing Silicon Valley: 'I wanted to hit a nerve,' says Sunil Rajaraman from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

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Recode Decode: Brewster Kahle, chairman, The Internet Archive from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Entrepreneur and archivist Brewster Kahle talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about the 20th anniversary of the Internet Archive and why it's more important than ever to preserve our digital past. Kah...

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Recode Decode: Why tech is "flunking" the diversity test from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Venture capitalist and prominent activist Freada Kapor Klein, the founder of Kapor Capital, talks with Recode's Teddy Schleifer about diversity in tech and impact investing. In this episode: In thi...

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Hudson's Bay Company CEO Helena Foulkes on the future of retail stores from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

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How Kayak co-founder Paul English got hit by a ‘truck full of money’ from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

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Recode Decode: Sue Decker, Raftr founder, and Michael Dearing, investor from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Former Yahoo president Sue Decker and investor Michael Dearing talk with Recode's Kara Swisher about Raftr, Decker's recently launched social platform for sane, civil discussions about topics rangi...

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Recode Decode: Ford CTO Ken Washington from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

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Laurene Powell Jobs: Trump's rhetoric is "out of a dictator's playbook" from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

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U.S. Chief Data Scientist DJ Patil: Data can help everyone from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

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Recode Decode: Jeremy Liew, partner, Lightspeed Venture Partners from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

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Recode Decode: PBS CEO Paula Kerger from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

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Chamath Palihapitiya: People in Silicon Valley are deeply unhappy from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

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....

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How does tech fix its diversity problem? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

On this special bonus episode of Recode Decode, we look back at our past guests' most insightful comments about diversity in tech and media. Interviewees including Chamath Palihapitiya, Samantha Be...

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Recode Decode: Brad Stone, author, 'The Upstarts’ from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

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Recode Decode: Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

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News Media Alliance CEO David Chavern on the challenges facing the news business from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

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Foursquare wants to make 'Her' a reality (Dennis Crowley and Jeff Glueck, co-founder and CEO, Foursquare) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

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Recode Decode: Rolf Schrömgens, co-founder, Trivago from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

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Recode Decode: "The Uninhabitable Earth" author David Wallace-Wells from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

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Lora Haddock: Innovative sex toys aren't a joke from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

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How Time Warner ruined AOL (Ted Leonsis, Founder, Revolution Growth) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

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Recode Decode: Mike McCue, CEO, Flipboard from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

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Recode Decode: Meredith Whittaker and Kate Crawford from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

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The history and future of "net art" with Rhizome artistic director Michael Connor from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

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'Mr. Robot' creator Sam Esmail: Hackers are more interesting than hacking from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

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Recode Decode: 'Fun Home' author Alison Bechdel from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

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Recode Decode: Valerie Jarrett from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

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Shoshana Zuboff: Surveillance capitalism is eroding democracy from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

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Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker: How to stop AI from stealing jobs from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

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Recode Decode: John Markoff, ex-reporter, The New York Times from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

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Recode Decode: Ashton Applewhite from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

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IAC chairman Barry Diller: "Hollywood is now irrelevant" from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

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Why Ashton Kutcher didn't invest in Snapchat from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

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Recode Decode: Tristan Harris, founder, Time Well Spent from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

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Recode Decode: Today, Explained host Sean Rameswaram from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

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Center for Democracy and Technology CEO Nuala O'Connor on reforming Big Tech from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

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'Iron Man' director Jon Favreau on pushing virtual reality to the limit from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Jon Favreau, the actor and director known for films such as "Swingers," "Iron Man" and "The Jungle Book," talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his new efforts in virtual reality, starting with th...

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Recode Decode: Tim Ferriss, author, "Tools of Titans" from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

"The 4-Hour Workweek" and "Tools of Titans" author Tim Ferriss talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his newest book, which compiles the life advice of the "titans" from tech, business and enterta...

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Recode Decode: Backstage Capital founder Arlan Hamilton and Deeds Not Words founder Wendy Davis (live at SXSW) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

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Why "Zucked" author Roger McNamee turned against Facebook from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

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'The Late Late Show' host James Corden hates 'the cloud' from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

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Recode Decode: Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

U.S. Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx talks to Recode's Johana Bhuiyan about his last week in office and what he would do if given more time. In addition to self-driving car and drone regul...

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Recode Decode: dtx CEO Tim Armstrong and Poshmark CEO Manish Chandra (live at An Evening With Code Commerce) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

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“The Mastermind” author Evan Ratliff on how tech enabled a drug kingpin from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Journalist and Pop-Up Magazine co-founder Evan Ratliff talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his new book, The Mastermind: Drugs, Empire, Murder, Betrayal. In this episode: How Pop-Up got started...

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Stop saying "good guy" in the boardroom (Aileen Lee, managing partner, Cowboy Ventures) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

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Recode Decode: Jennifer Hyman, CEO, Rent the Runway from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

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Recode Decode: Richard Walker from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

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Spencer Stuart executive recruiter James Citrin on how to find great CEOs from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

James Citrin, the head of Spencer Stuart CEO Practice, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about placing top executives at companies like Yahoo, PayPal, eBay, Twitter, Cisco, Pandora and Hulu. In this...

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How Uber fought city hall — and won (Bradley Tusk, CEO, Tusk Holdings) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Tusk Holdings CEO Bradley Tusk talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his unique political consulting firm Tusk Ventures, which trades equity in companies like Uber, FanDuel and DraftKings for regu...

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Recode Decode: Othman Laraki, CEO, Color from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Color Genomics co-founder and CEO Othman Laraki talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about why we're on the verge of a healthcare revolution. Laraki, whose company tests buyers' genes for certain hered...

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Recode Decode: Margrethe Vestager, European Commissioner for Competition (Live at SXSW 2019) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

European Commissioner for Competition Margrethe Vestager talks with Recode's Kara Swisher in front of a live audience at South by Southwest 2019. In this episode: America's newfound appetite for te...

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Early AOL exec Jean Case explains how to "Be Fearless" from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

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Google and Apple need limits (Margrethe Vestager, Commissioner for Competition, European Commission) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

In this special bonus episode, Margrethe Vestager, Europe's Commissioner for Competition, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about the high-profile cases she has brought against Apple and Google for ...

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Recode Decode: Orkut Büyükkökten, Founder, Hello from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Social networking pioneer Orkut Büyükkökten talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about the eponymous social site, Orkut, which he built inside Google, and his new company, Hello. Büyükkökten says curre...

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Recode Decode: Senator Amy Klobuchar from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Amy Klobuchar, the senior U.S. Senator from Minnesota who is running for the Democratic Party's nomination in the 2020 presidential race, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher in front of a live audienc...

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"The Job" author Ellen Shell on the increasingly automated future of work from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Boston University professor Ellen Shell talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about her new book, The Job: Work and Its Future in a Time of Radical Change. In this episode: Shell's background in science...

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Behind the scenes of Pokémon Go (John Hanke, CEO, Niantic) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Niantic CEO John Hanke talks with Recode's Kara Swisher and Ina Fried about the company's hit mobile game Pokémon Go and what happens now that the initial hype around it has "stabilized." Future up...

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Recode Decode: Tom Friedman from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Pulitzer Prize-winning author and New York Times columnist Tom Friedman talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his new book, "Thank You for Being Late: An Optimist's Guide to Thriving in the Age of...

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Recode Decode: Kathy Griffin from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

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Attorney Laura Wasser on making a "TurboTax for divorce" from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Divorce attorney Laura Wasser talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about starting It's Over Easy, an online platform to help people who are getting divorced in New York and California. In this episode:...

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Benchmark partner Bill Gurley: Too much money is my biggest problem from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Benchmark general partner Bill Gurley talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about life as a venture capitalist and why he's still worried about a bubble, a topic he has written about extensively. Great ...

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Recode Decode: YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

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Basecamp CEO Jason Fried on overfunded startups and stressful workplaces from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Basecamp CEO Jason Fried talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his most recent book, It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work, which he co-wrote with his business partner David Heinemeier Hansson. In t...

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Why everyone should talk about diversity (Stacy Brown-Philpot, CEO, TaskRabbit) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

TaskRabbit CEO Stacy Brown-Philpot chats with Recode's Kara Swisher about how her company and others are changing the definition of work. During her previous stint as TaskRabbit's COO, Brown-Philpo...

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Recode Decode: Vic Gundotra, CEO, AliveCor from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

AliveCor CEO Vic Gundotra talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his long career in tech, including his start as a college dropout at Microsoft and his seven years leading Google's mobile and socia...

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Recode Decode: Hudson's Bay Company CEO Helena Foulkes from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Hudson's Bay Company CEO Helena Foulkes talks with Recode's Kara Swisher in this live interview recorded at An Evening With Code Commerce in Las Vegas. In this episode: Yep, Foulkes was considered ...

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Land O'Lakes CEO Beth Ford on farmer-entrepreneurs, "agritech" and Rep. Steve King from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Land O’Lakes CEO Beth Ford talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher about running a modern dairy and food company, which is co-owned by thousands of farmers.   In this episode: What Land O’Lakes does other...

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Quip CEO Bret Taylor: Companies die when they're afraid to fail from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Quip CEO and Twitter board member Bret Taylor talks with Recode's Kara Swisher and Kurt Wagner about the reality of trying and sometimes failing as an entrepreneur in Silicon Valley. A former Faceb...

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Recode Decode: Hilary Rosen and Juleanna Glover, political consultants from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Democratic political strategist Hilary Rosen and Republican corporate consultant Juleanna Glover talk with Recode's Kara Swisher about how Donald Trump's election to the presidency will affect the ...

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Recode Decode: Laurene Powell Jobs from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Laurene Powell Jobs, the founder of the Emerson Collective, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about journalism, VR, and activism. In this episode: Why Powell Jobs is investing in media; President Tr...

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EFF boss Cindy Cohn and McSweeney's editor Claire Boyle on digital privacy and "the end of trust" from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Cindy Cohn, the executive director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and Claire Boyle, the managing editor of McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, talk with Recode's Kara Swisher about a special non...

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Disrupting health and beauty (Tristan Walker, CEO, Walker & Company) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Walker & Company Brands founder and CEO Tristan Walker talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about how technology can disrupt the health and beauty industry. Walker & Company's shaving brand, Bevel, is ...

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Recode Decode: Sunil Rajaraman from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

The Bold Italic CEO Sunil Rajaraman talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about "This Is Your Life in Silicon Valley," a series of satirical articles that went viral earlier this year. Rajaraman set out...

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Recode Decode: News Media Alliance CEO David Chavern from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

David Chavern, the president and CEO of the nonprofit News Media Alliance, talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher about advocating on behalf of journalists in Washington, D.C. In this episode: How Chaver...

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Glossier CEO Emily Weiss on the "art and science" of the beauty business from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

In this live interview from the 92nd Street Y in New York City, Glossier founder and CEO Emily Weiss talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about running a "beauty company that's also a tech company." In...

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Tech in Australia: Building "pathways to Silicon Valley" (Mike Cannon-Brookes, co-CEO, Atlassian) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Atlassian co-CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about co-founding an enterprise software company in Sydney, Australia, in 2002. Cannon-Brookes reflects on Atlassian's successf...

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Recode Decode: Kayak co-founder Paul English from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

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Recode Decode: Lora Haddock from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

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CNN.com editor in chief Meredith Artley on digital media and earning the public's trust from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

CNN.com editor in chief Meredith Artley talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about overseeing some of the most popular news sites on the internet and how things may change in 2019. In this episode: Art...

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Wall Street is ignoring women (Sallie Krawcheck, CEO, Ellevest) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Sallie Krawcheck, formerly the CFO of Citi Group and the CEO of Merrill Lynch, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about launching Ellevest, a new online investment platform for women. Krawcheck says ...

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Recode Decode: U.S. Chief Data Scientist DJ Patil from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

DJ Patil, America's first Chief Data Scientist, talks about his nearly two years in the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy, working on initiatives around health care and policing...

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Recode Decode: Rhizome artistic director Michael Connor from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Michael Connor, the artistic director of the digital art community Rhizome, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about the group's museum exhibit, "The Art Happens Here," and the future of art made on ...

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99designs CEO Patrick Llewellyn on digitizing creativity from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

99designs CEO Patrick Llewellyn talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about leading a design startup based in Australia. In this episode: How 99designs helps designers and their clients work together on...

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Why did Yahoo sell to Verizon? (Eric Jackson, activist investor, Yahoo) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Eric Jackson, a longtime activist investor in Yahoo and the managing director of SpringOwl Asset Management, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about the momentous deal that will sell Yahoo's core bu...

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Recode Decode: How does tech fix its diversity problem? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

On this special bonus episode of Recode Decode, we look back at our past guests' most insightful comments about diversity in tech and media. Interviewees including Chamath Palihapitiya, Samantha Be...

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Recode Decode: Shoshana Zuboff from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Harvard Business School professor emerita Shoshana Zuboff talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about her new book, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier o...

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DoorDash CEO Tony Xu and COO Christopher Payne on the future of delivery from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Tony Xu, the CEO and co-founder of DoorDash, and Christopher Payne, the COO, talk with Recode's Kara Swisher about how the delivery company's busy 2018 and why it's starting to think about deliveri...

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"Chaos Monkeys" author Antonio García-Martinez: Silicon Valley isn’t a nice place from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Antonio García-Martinez, author of the new tell-all book, "Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley," talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about starting a company, getting a...

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Recode Decode: Dennis Crowley and Jeff Glueck, co-founder and CEO, Foursquare from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Foursquare co-founder Dennis Crowley and CEO Jeff Glueck talk with Recode's Kara Swisher about how the location intelligence company is generating sellable data for partners like Apple, Uber and Tw...

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Recode Decode: IAC chairman Barry Diller from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Barry Diller, the chairman of IAC and the Expedia Group, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about the state of the tech and media industries, problematic people in power and why Diller is building a ...

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Serial Box CEO Molly Barton wants to change how you read from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Molly Barton, the CEO and co-founder of serialized reading app Serial Box, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about trying to make a Netflix-style digital platform for books. In this episode: (01:19)...

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The future of home exercise (Peloton CTO Yony Feng) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Peloton CTO Yony Feng talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about how the indoor cycling company is trying to shake up in-home exercise programs with its custom fitness bike, which sells for $2,000. Pel...

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Recode Decode: Ted Leonsis, Founder, Revolution Growth from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Revolution Growth founder and partner Ted Leonsis talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about being a longtime executive at AOL and how the company changed dramatically when it merged with Time Warner i...

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Recode Decode: Center for Democracy and Technology CEO Nuala O'Connor from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Nuala O'Connor, the CEO of the Center for Democracy and Technology, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about how the group she leads is lobbying the government and private companies on issues like co...

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Keith Rabois on innovation, Trump and Saudi Arabia from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Khosla Ventures partner Keith Rabois talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about the current startup and venture capital landscape, the Trump administration and more. In this episode: (01:18) Rabois's b...

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"Hamilton" producer Jeffrey Seller: Tech can't beat live theater from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

"Hamilton" lead producer Jeffrey Seller talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about how the hit Broadway musical goes forward now that three of its stars — Lin-Manuel Miranda, Leslie Odom Jr. and Philli...

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Recode Decode: 'Mr. Robot' creator Sam Esmail from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

"Mr. Robot" creator Sam Esmail talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his hit TV show, whose star Rami Malek recently won an Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actor in a drama. Esmail says he grew up lovin...

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Recode Decode: "Zucked" author Roger McNamee from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Elevation Partners founding partner Roger McNamee talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher about his new book, Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe. In this episode: Transitioning from tech optimi...

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Why Weight Watchers is now WW from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

WW International CEO Mindy Grossman talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about how her company, formerly known as Weight Watchers, has transitioned into modern "wellness" culture. Learn more about your...

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Behind the scenes of the Rio 2016 Olympics (Gary Zenkel, President, NBC Olympics) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

NBC Olympics President Gary Zenkel talks with Recode's Ina Fried about how the network is building on the digital reach of the Summer Games via livestreaming, virtual reality, Snapchat and more. Ze...

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Recode Decode: Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about cooperation between government and the tech industry and the new challenges of the digital economy. Secretary Pritzk...

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Recode Decode: “The Mastermind” author Evan Ratliff from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Journalist and Pop-Up Magazine co-founder Evan Ratliff talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his new book, The Mastermind: Drugs, Empire, Murder, Betrayal. In this episode: How Pop-Up got started;...

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Learn about Recode Decode with Kara Swisher from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

If you enjoyed this preview of Recode Decode with Kara Swisher, subscribe to the show for free on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, or your favorite podcast app to get new episodes automatically e...

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Let's reverse-engineer the brain (Donna Dubinsky and Jeff Hawkins, co-founders, Numenta) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Donna Dubinsky and Jeff Hawkins — the co-founders of Palm, Handspring and Numenta — talk with Recode's Kara Swisher about their efforts to decode the human brain. They say everything that makes us ...

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Recode Decode: Ashton Kutcher from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Actor, producer and investor Ashton Kutcher talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his life as both a TV star and a tech obsessive. Kutcher, who starred in shows like "Two and a Half Men" and "That...

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Recode Decode: Spencer Stuart executive recruiter James Citrin from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

James Citrin, the head of Spencer Stuart CEO Practice, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about placing top executives at companies like Yahoo, PayPal, eBay, Twitter, Cisco, Pandora and Hulu. In this...

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The ups and downs of Reddit's history from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Inc. magazine senior writer Christine Lagorio-Chafkin talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about her new book, "We Are the Nerds: The Birth and Tumultuous Life of Reddit, the Internet's Culture Laborat...

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The college lecture may go extinct (Daphne Koller, president, Coursera) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Coursera president and co-founder Daphne Koller talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about how she helped build the popular online learning platform after a successful early experiment at Stanford Univ...

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Recode Decode: 'Iron Man' director Jon Favreau from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Jon Favreau, the actor and director known for films such as "Swingers," "Iron Man" and "The Jungle Book," talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his new efforts in virtual reality, starting with th...

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Recode Decode: Early AOL exec Jean Case from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Case Foundation CEO Jean Case, who was an early marketing and communications executive at AOL, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about her new book, "Be Fearless: 5 Principles for a Life of Breakthr...

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How Imgur avoids the ugliness of social media from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Imgur CEO Alan Schaaf talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about starting the image-sharing site and moderating its content. In this episode: (00:59) Schaaf's background; (03:18) Launching Imgur; (07:5...

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Chelsea Handler is done with old-school TV from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Chelsea Handler, the host of Netflix's new talk show "Chelsea," chats with Recode's Kara Swisher about going digital after seven years on the cable channel E! She runs "Chelsea" like a normal TV sh...

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Recode Decode: 'The Late Late Show' host James Corden from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

James Corden, host of "The Late Late Show" on CBS and viral video star, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about redesigning a talk show for the YouTube generation, built around segments like "Carpoo...

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Recode Decode: "The Job" author Ellen Shell from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Boston University professor Ellen Shell talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about her new book, The Job: Work and Its Future in a Time of Radical Change. In this episode: Shell's background in science...

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What's next for Amazon's Alexa? Maybe buying stuff for you automatically. from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Bret Kinsella, the editor of the voice technology blog Voicebot.ai, talks with Recode’s Rani Molla about the future of virtual assistants like Alexa, Siri and Google Assistant. In this episode: (01...

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Kim Kardashian: If my naked selfies offend you, don't look at them from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Reality TV star and entrepreneur Kim Kardashian talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about why she doesn't use Facebook, but loves Snapchat. Kardashian credits her family's career success to social med...

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Recode Decode: Aileen Lee, managing partner, Cowboy Ventures from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Cowboy Ventures founder and managing partner Aileen Lee, previously a partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about being one of the few female venture capital...

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Recode Decode: Attorney Laura Wasser from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Divorce attorney Laura Wasser talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about starting It's Over Easy, an online platform to help people who are getting divorced in New York and California. In this episode:...

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Four magic words for entrepreneurs: ‘Do your fucking job.’ from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Scott Belsky, a venture partner at Benchmark and the chief product officer at Adobe, talks with Recode's Teddy Schleifer about his book, "The Messy Middle: Finding Your Way Through the Hardest and ...

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LeBron James's business manager, Maverick Carter, on sports stardom from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Maverick Carter, the business manager for basketball superstar LeBron James of the Cleveland Cavaliers, talks to Recode's Kurt Wagner about how the internet has radically changed athletes' place in...

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Recode Decode: Bradley Tusk, CEO, Tusk Holdings from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Tusk Holdings CEO Bradley Tusk talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his unique political consulting firm Tusk Ventures, which trades equity in companies like Uber, FanDuel and DraftKings for regu...

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Recode Decode: Basecamp CEO Jason Fried from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Basecamp CEO Jason Fried talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his most recent book, It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work, which he co-wrote with his business partner David Heinemeier Hansson. In t...

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Why salad chain Sweetgreen thinks like a tech company from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Jonathan Neman, the co-founder of fast food salad chain Sweetgreen, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about the company's techie side and the future of restaurants. In this episode: (01:26) How Swee...

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JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon: I get why people hate banks, but ... from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

JPMorgan Chase president, chairman and CEO Jamie Dimon talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about how big banks are both competing against and collaborating with Silicon Valley. He explains why tech co...

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Recode Decode: Margrethe Vestager, Commissioner for Competition, European Commission from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

In this special bonus episode, Margrethe Vestager, Europe's Commissioner for Competition, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about the high-profile cases she has brought against Apple and Google for ...

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Recode Decode: Land O'Lakes CEO Beth Ford and Rep. Steve King from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Land O’Lakes CEO Beth Ford talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher about running a modern dairy and food company, which is co-owned by thousands of farmers.  In this episode: What Land O’Lakes does other ...

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How Peter Jackson’s team made WWI footage look new from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Award-winning filmmaker Peter Jackson talks about his new film, a World War I documentary with sound and color called "They Shall Not Grow Old." In this episode: (00:37) Why he made the documentary...

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Rep. Nancy Pelosi: "I guarantee it," Trump will fail from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

U.S. Rep. and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi sits down with Recode's Kara Swisher to talk about the 2016 election, immigration reform and how Congress is trying to work with and learn from the ...

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Recode Decode: John Hanke, CEO, Niantic from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Niantic CEO John Hanke talks with Recode's Kara Swisher and Ina Fried about the company's hit mobile game Pokémon Go and what happens now that the initial hype around it has "stabilized." Future up...

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Recode Decode: EFF boss Cindy Cohn and McSweeney's editor Claire Boyle from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Cindy Cohn, the executive director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and Claire Boyle, the managing editor of McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, talk with Recode's Kara Swisher about a special non...

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Ezra Klein and Kara Swisher on the future of journalism from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Vox.com founder and editor-at-large Ezra Klein talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about the press, social media and President Trump in this live interview recorded in San Francisco. In this episode: ...

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Walt Mossberg says tech is still too hard to use from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

On this special episode of "Recode Decode," we celebrate the relaunch of Recode.net with an extended interview between Recode co-founders Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg. In 1991, Mossberg was laugh...

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Recode Decode: Benchmark partner Bill Gurley from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Benchmark general partner Bill Gurley talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about life as a venture capitalist and why he's still worried about a bubble, a topic he has written about extensively. Great ...

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Recode Decode: Glossier CEO Emily Weiss from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

In this live interview from the 92nd Street Y in New York City, Glossier founder and CEO Emily Weiss talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about running a "beauty company that's also a tech company." In...

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Why it's OK to be analog in a digital world from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Framebridge CEO Susan Tynan talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about starting and running the online framing startup. In this episode: (00:56) Tynan's background at the White House and LivingSocial; ...

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"When women fail, we all fail," says Deeds Not Words' Wendy Davis from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Former Texas State Senator Wendy Davis -- most famous for her filibuster to stop legislation that would severely restrict abortions in that state -- talks with Kara Swisher about her new digital in...

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Recode Decode: Stacy Brown-Philpot, CEO, TaskRabbit from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

TaskRabbit CEO Stacy Brown-Philpot chats with Recode's Kara Swisher about how her company and others are changing the definition of work. During her previous stint as TaskRabbit's COO, Brown-Philpo...

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Recode Decode: CNN.com editor in chief Meredith Artley from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

CNN.com editor in chief Meredith Artley talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about overseeing some of the most popular news sites on the internet and how things may change in 2019. In this episode: Art...

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Should Mark Zuckerberg fire himself? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Sam Altman, the president of YCombinator and co-chairman of OpenAI, joins Recode's Kara Swisher for this live interview at Manny's in San Francisco, moderated by Manny Yekutiel. In this episode: (0...

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Keith Rabois says winter is coming for wasteful startups from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Khosla Ventures investment partner Keith Rabois talks with Kara Swisher about building PayPal before the dot-com crash and the entrepreneurial lessons he applied from that company to later jobs at ...

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Recode Decode: Quip CEO Bret Taylor from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Quip CEO and Twitter board member Bret Taylor talks with Recode's Kara Swisher and Kurt Wagner about the reality of trying and sometimes failing as an entrepreneur in Silicon Valley. A former Faceb...

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Recode Decode: 99designs CEO Patrick Llewellyn from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

99designs CEO Patrick Llewellyn talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about leading a design startup based in Australia. In this episode: How 99designs helps designers and their clients work together on...

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NBC's Chuck Todd, Andrea Mitchell and Hallie Jackson (Live) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

In this live interview recorded in Washington, D.C., Recode's Kara Swisher talks with three NBC and MSNBC journalists — Chuck Todd, Andrea Mitchell and Hallie Jackson — about social media, politics...

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Steve Case’s “Third Wave”: Startups In Every State and the Internet In Everything from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Investor and former America Online CEO Steve Case, the author of a new book called "The Third Wave," talks with Kara Swisher about how companies like AOL made on-ramps to the Internet and where we'...

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Recode Decode: Tristan Walker, CEO, Walker & Company from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Walker & Company Brands founder and CEO Tristan Walker talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about how technology can disrupt the health and beauty industry. Walker & Company's shaving brand, Bevel, is ...

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Recode Decode: DoorDash CEO Tony Xu and COO Christopher Payne from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Tony Xu, the CEO and co-founder of DoorDash, and Christopher Payne, the COO, talk with Recode's Kara Swisher about how the delivery company's busy 2018 and why it's starting to think about deliveri...

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Best of: Sarah Cooper from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

In this best-of episode originally published in January 2018, writer and comedian Sarah Cooper talks with Kara Swisher and Dick Costolo about why she left a career in the tech industry to become a ...

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Facebook and Google are “the enemies of independent thought” from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

The Atlantic national correspondent Franklin Foer talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his book, "World Without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Tech," which recently came out in paperback. In...

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"The Eyewear Industry Is Kind of Messed Up" (Dave Gilboa and Neil Blumenthal, co-CEOs, Warby Parker) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Warby Parker co-founders and co-CEOs Dave Gilboa and Neil Blumenthal talk with Re/code's Senior Commerce Editor Jason Del Rey about how they challenged the incumbents of the eyewear business, which...

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Recode Decode: Mike Cannon-Brookes, co-CEO, Atlassian from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Atlassian co-CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about co-founding an enterprise software company in Sydney, Australia, in 2002. Cannon-Brookes reflects on Atlassian's successf...

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Recode Decode: Serial Box CEO Molly Barton from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Molly Barton, the CEO and co-founder of serialized reading app Serial Box, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about trying to make a Netflix-style digital platform for books. In this episode: (01:19)...

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Best of: Ellen Pao from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

In this best-of episode originally published in October 2017, Recode's Kara Swisher talks to investor Ellen Pao about her book, Reset: My Fight for Inclusion and Lasting Change, which chronicled Pa...

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Casey Newton and Louie Swisher on social media, video games and 300 Recode Decodes from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Recode's Kara Swisher talks with her older son, Louie Swisher, and the Silicon Valley editor of the Verge, Casey Newton. Thank you to all of our listeners for 300 episodes. Here's to 300 more! In t...

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You're in Charge of Your Own DNA (Anne Wojcicki, CEO, 23andMe) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Kara Swisher talks with 23andMe CEO Anne Wojcicki about why the personal genomics company's mission is unchanged after a battle with the FDA. Wojcicki argues that understanding one's own genetic tr...

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Recode Decode: Sallie Krawcheck, CEO, Ellevest from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Sallie Krawcheck, formerly the CFO of Citi Group and the CEO of Merrill Lynch, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about launching Ellevest, a new online investment platform for women. Krawcheck says ...

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Recode Decode: Keith Rabois from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Khosla Ventures partner Keith Rabois talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about the current startup and venture capital landscape, the Trump administration and more. In this episode: (01:18) Rabois's b...

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Best of: James Corden from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

In this best-of episode originally published in October 2016, Recode's Kara Swisher talks to the host of The Late Late Show, James Corden, about redesigning a talk show for the YouTube generation. ...

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Silicon Valley loves to break the rules. Is that a good thing? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

University of Maryland professor and cultural psychologist Michele Gelfand talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about her new book, "Rule Makers, Rule Breakers: How Tight and Loose Cultures Wire Our Mi...

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Wall Street Doesn't 'Get' Online Lending ... Yet. (Renaud Laplanche, CEO, Lending Club) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Lending Club CEO Renaud Laplanche talks with Kara Swisher about the benefits of online financial services in a world that no longer needs old-fashioned bank branches. He also explains why Lending C...

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Recode Decode: Eric Jackson, activist investor, Yahoo from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Eric Jackson, a longtime activist investor in Yahoo and the managing director of SpringOwl Asset Management, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about the momentous deal that will sell Yahoo's core bu...

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Recode Decode: Why Weight Watchers is now WW from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

WW International CEO Mindy Grossman talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about how her company, formerly known as Weight Watchers, has transitioned into modern "wellness" culture. Learn more about your...

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Best of: Nikole Hannah-Jones from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

In this best-of episode, Recode's Kara Swisher talked to New York Times Magazine reporter Nikole Hannah-Jones about how COVID-19 magnified inequality in the US, and our historical failure to treat ...

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How disinformation poisoned a ‘Facebook nation’ from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Rappler co-founder Maria Ressa talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about doing investigative journalism in the Philippines, where social media has emboldened an autocratic president. In this episode: ...

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"Rich Douchebags" Shouldn't Get Tech's Wealth (Chamath Palihapitiya, Investor, Social Capital) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Social Capital founder Chamath Palihapitiya talks with Kara Swisher about working on Winamp, AOL Instant Messenger and Facebook before becoming an outspoken investor. In today's Silicon Valley, he ...

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Recode Decode: "Chaos Monkeys" author Antonio García-Martinez from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Antonio García-Martinez, author of the new tell-all book, "Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley," talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about starting a company, getting a...

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Recode Decode: The ups and downs of Reddit's history from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Inc. magazine senior writer Christine Lagorio-Chafkin talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about her new book, "We Are the Nerds: The Birth and Tumultuous Life of Reddit, the Internet's Culture Laborat...

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Best of: Maria Ressa from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

In this best-of episode, Recode's Kara Swisher talks to Rappler CEO Maria Ressa about doing investigative journalism in the Philippines, where social media has emboldened an autocratic president. R...

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Undocumented immigrants are people, not political props from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his book, "Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen," and how the shift the cultural conversation ...

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You Can Be Hacked From Anywhere (Orion Hindawi, CEO, Tanium) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Tanium CEO Orion Hindawi talks with Re/code's Arik Hesseldahl about why it's easier than ever for hackers to strike at companies and governments, and why those who cling to obsolete security soluti...

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Recode Decode: Peloton CTO Yony Feng from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Peloton CTO Yony Feng talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about how the indoor cycling company is trying to shake up in-home exercise programs with its custom fitness bike, which sells for $2,000. Pel...

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Recode Decode: How Imgur avoids the ugliness of social media from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Imgur CEO Alan Schaaf talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about starting the image-sharing site and moderating its content. In this episode: (00:59) Schaaf's background; (03:18) Launching Imgur; (07:5...

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Best of: Edward Snowden from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

In this best-of episode, Recode's Kara Swisher talks to NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden about his book "Permanent Record," how his youthful love of the US government and the early internet turned ...

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After 20,000 workers walked out, Google said it got the message. The workers disagree. from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Six of the organizers of the Nov. 1 Google walkouts — Erica Anderson, Claire Stapleton, Meredith Whittaker, Stephanie Parker, Cecelia O'Neil-Hart and Amr Gaber — talk with Recode's Kara Swisher abo...

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Ash Carter, United States Secretary of Defense from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

U.S. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter talks with Kara Swisher about his efforts to unite the Pentagon and Silicon Valley behind common goals, including a new "innovation advisory board" chaired by E...

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Recode Decode: "Hamilton" producer Jeffrey Seller from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

"Hamilton" lead producer Jeffrey Seller talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about how the hit Broadway musical goes forward now that three of its stars — Lin-Manuel Miranda, Leslie Odom Jr. and Philli...

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Recode Decode: What's next for Amazon's Alexa? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Bret Kinsella, the editor of the voice technology blog Voicebot.ai, talks with Recode’s Rani Molla about the future of virtual assistants like Alexa, Siri and Google Assistant. In this episode: (01...

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Best of: Maggie Haberman and David Fahrenthold from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

In this best-of episode, originally published in September 2017, Recode's Kara Swisher talks to New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman and Washington Post reporter David Fahrenthold about their re...

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Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff on Facebook, homelessness in SF and buying Time from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff talks with Recode's Kara Swisher on the latest episode of her MSNBC TV show, "Revolution." Fan of the show? It helps to leave a rating and review on Apple Podcasts. Lear...

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Sam Shank, CEO, HotelTonight from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

HotelTonight CEO Sam Shank talks with Kara Swisher about taking only 10 weeks to launch an online travel app. He explains how the startup worked to avoid being perceived as "another Groupon" and wh...

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Recode Decode: Gary Zenkel, President, NBC Olympics from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

NBC Olympics President Gary Zenkel talks with Recode's Ina Fried about how the network is building on the digital reach of the Summer Games via livestreaming, virtual reality, Snapchat and more. Ze...

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Recode Decode: Four magic words for entrepreneurs: ‘Do your fucking job.’ from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Scott Belsky, a venture partner at Benchmark and the chief product officer at Adobe, talks with Recode's Teddy Schleifer about his book, "The Messy Middle: Finding Your Way Through the Hardest and ...

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Best of: Scott Galloway from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

In these best-of excerpts from several episodes of Recode Decode, Kara Swisher talks to her Pivot co-host Scott Galloway about the tech giants, the secrets of happiness, and the future of business ...

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Should the First Amendment apply to Facebook? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Jameel Jaffer, the executive director of Columbia University's Knight First Amendment Institute, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about free speech and censorship on platforms like Facebook and Twi...

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Gavin Newsom, Lieutenant Governor, California from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

California Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom talks with Kara Swisher about why the government's approach to technology needs to be completely reimagined. A former mayor of San Francisco, Newsom argu...

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Recode Decode: Donna Dubinsky and Jeff Hawkins, co-founders, Numenta from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Donna Dubinsky and Jeff Hawkins — the co-founders of Palm, Handspring and Numenta — talk with Recode's Kara Swisher about their efforts to decode the human brain. They say everything that makes us ...

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Recode Decode: Why salad chain Sweetgreen thinks like a tech company from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Jonathan Neman, the co-founder of fast food salad chain Sweetgreen, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about the company's techie side and the future of restaurants. In this episode: (01:26) How Swee...

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Best of: Nicole Wong from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

In this best-of episode, former deputy CTO of the United States Nicole Wong talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher about the future of tech policy and why content moderation is more complicated than many...

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Start to Sale: Milk Bar CEO Christina Tosi from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

If you like Recode Decode, we think you'll also like Start to Sale. Here's the show's first episode: Christina Tosi is a superstar pastry chef, and she's also built one of the most iconic American ...

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Hadi Partovi, CEO, Code.org from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Code.org CEO Hadi Partovi talks with Kara Swisher about how he discovered his love for programming, and how Steve Jobs' death spurred him to create a non-profit that would spread that love to other...

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Recode Decode: Daphne Koller, president, Coursera from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Coursera president and co-founder Daphne Koller talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about how she helped build the popular online learning platform after a successful early experiment at Stanford Univ...

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Recode Decode: How Peter Jackson’s team made WWI footage look new from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Award-winning filmmaker Peter Jackson talks about his new film, a World War I documentary with sound and color called "They Shall Not Grow Old." In this episode: (00:37) Why he made the documentary...

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Best of: Boots Riley from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

In this best-of episode, Recode's Kara Swisher and Shirin Ghaffary talk to Boots Riley, the writer and director of the satirical dark comedy film Sorry to Bother You. They discuss how he got the mo...

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Why nonprofits should think more like tech companies from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Stanford lecturer Kathleen Kelly Janus talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about her book, "Social Startup Success: How the Best Nonprofits Launch, Scale Up and Make a Difference." In this episode: (0...

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Andrew Jarecki, "The Jinx" Director from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Andrew Jarecki joins Peter Kafka to talk about the success of true-crime documentary series such as "Making a Murderer," "Serial" and the show he directed, "The Jinx." He also discusses his history...

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Recode Decode: Chelsea Handler from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Chelsea Handler, the host of Netflix's new talk show "Chelsea," chats with Recode's Kara Swisher about going digital after seven years on the cable channel E! She runs "Chelsea" like a normal TV sh...

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Recode Decode: Ezra Klein and Kara Swisher on the future of journalism from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Vox.com founder and editor-at-large Ezra Klein talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about the press, social media and President Trump in this live interview recorded in San Francisco. In this episode: ...

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Best of: Kathy Griffin from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

In this best-of episode, originally published in March 2019, comedian Kathy Griffin talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about the notorious photo shoot that got her investigated by the Secret Service,...

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Sally Yates: Donald Trump is trying to corrupt the Justice Department from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates talks with Recode's Kara Swisher in front of a live audience at the AllRaise Summit in San Francisco. (Note: This interview was recorded before the midter...

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Mike Cagney, CEO, SoFi from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

SoFi CEO Mike Cagney sits down with Kara Swisher to discuss why financial technology startups are suddenly hot and how SoFi hopes to eventually replace your bank, even though it has no permanent ph...

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Recode Decode: Kim Kardashian from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Reality TV star and entrepreneur Kim Kardashian talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about why she doesn't use Facebook, but loves Snapchat. Kardashian credits her family's career success to social med...

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Recode Decode: Why it's OK to be analog in a digital world from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Framebridge CEO Susan Tynan talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about starting and running the online framing startup. In this episode: (00:56) Tynan's background at the White House and LivingSocial; ...

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Best of: Tristan Harris from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Tristan Harris, the co-founder of the Center for Humane Technology, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher in these two best-of interview excerpts. In the first interview, originally published in January...

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Data and the future of money in politics with RevUp CEO Steve Spinner from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Former Democratic fundraiser Steve Spinner talks with Recode's Teddy Schleifer about his online fundraising startup, RevUp. In this episode: (01:17) Spinner's background; (04:04) How he got into ca...

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Chet Kanojia, Starry CEO from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Starry CEO Chet Kanojia, formerly the founder and CEO of Aereo, is back with another startup aimed at taking on the man. He sits down with Peter Kafka to talk about Starry, which aims to attack bro...

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Recode Decode: LeBron James's business manager, Maverick Carter from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Maverick Carter, the business manager for basketball superstar LeBron James of the Cleveland Cavaliers, talks to Recode's Kurt Wagner about how the internet has radically changed athletes' place in...

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Recode Decode: Should Mark Zuckerberg fire himself? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Sam Altman, the president of YCombinator and co-chairman of OpenAI, joins Recode's Kara Swisher for this live interview at Manny's in San Francisco, moderated by Manny Yekutiel. In this episode: (0...

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Best of: Margrethe Vestager from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Margrethe Vestager, the European Commissioner for Competition and a three-time Recode Decode guest, talks with Kara Swisher in these three excerpts from her appearances on the show. Originally publ...

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The ‘bad ideas’ that broke American capitalism from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Washington Post economics columnist Steven Pearlstein talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his new book, "Can American Capitalism Survive?: Why Greed Is Not Good, Opportunity Is Not Equal, and Fa...

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Eric Weiner, Author of "The Geography of Genius" from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Eric Weiner, author of New York Times bestseller "The Geography of Bliss" and the new book "The Geography of Genius," talks with Kara Swisher about how where we live can make us smarter and more in...

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Recode Decode: JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

JPMorgan Chase president, chairman and CEO Jamie Dimon talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about how big banks are both competing against and collaborating with Silicon Valley. He explains why tech co...

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Recode Decode: NBC's Chuck Todd, Andrea Mitchell and Hallie Jackson (Live) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

In this live interview recorded in Washington, D.C., Recode's Kara Swisher talks with three NBC and MSNBC journalists — Chuck Todd, Andrea Mitchell and Hallie Jackson — about social media, politics...

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Best of: Tim Cook from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Apple CEO Tim Cook talks with Recode's Kara Swisher and MSNBC's Chris Hayes in this live interview that originally aired in April 2018. This conversation was broadcast on MSNBC for the TV show Revo...

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Why the New York Times won’t sell itself to a billionaire from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

A.G. Sulzberger, the publisher of the New York Times, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher in front of a live audience at a Columbia University event in New York City. In this episode: (03:05) 10 month...

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Nick Denton, Gawker Media Founder, and Jason Epstein, Investor from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Gawker Media founder Nick Denton and new board member Jason Epstein, who just bought a minority share of the company, sit down with Peter Kafka to discuss the online media company's rapidly changin...

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Recode Decode: Rep. Nancy Pelosi from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

U.S. Rep. and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi sits down with Recode's Kara Swisher to talk about the 2016 election, immigration reform and how Congress is trying to work with and learn from the ...

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Recode Decode: Facebook and Google are “the enemies of independent thought” from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

The Atlantic national correspondent Franklin Foer talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his book, "World Without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Tech," which recently came out in paperback. In...

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Best of: Mark Zuckerberg from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg talks with Recode's Kara Swisher in this interview, which was originally published in July 2018. They discuss why Facebook hadn't banned Alex Jones and Inforwars (a sta...

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Elon Musk on Tesla’s crazy year, dying on Mars and taking Saudi money from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about Tesla's turbulent 2018, when SpaceX will send its first rocket to Mars, why he fights with journalists on Twitter and much more...

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John Zimmer, Lyft President from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Lyft President John Zimmer sits down with Kara Swisher to talk about the company's transition from ridesharing to autonomous cars, the focus of a recently announced partnership with GM. He also dis...

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Recode Decode: Walt Mossberg from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

On this special episode of "Recode Decode," we celebrate the relaunch of Recode.net with an extended interview between Recode co-founders Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg. In 1991, Mossberg was laugh...

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Recode Decode: Silicon Valley loves to break the rules. Is that a good thing? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

University of Maryland professor and cultural psychologist Michele Gelfand talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about her new book, "Rule Makers, Rule Breakers: How Tight and Loose Cultures Wire Our Mi...

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Best of: Carole Cadwalladr from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

The Guardian and Observer reporter Carole Cadwalladr talks with Recode's Kara Swisher in this interview, which was originally published in July 2019. They discuss her investigations into the Cambri...

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'Good and Mad' author Rebecca Traister from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

New York Magazine writer Rebecca Traister talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about her new book, "Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger." In this episode: (01:37) Traister's backgrou...

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Shani Hilton, BuzzFeed Executive Editor of News from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

BuzzFeed’s Executive Editor of News Shani Hilton talks with Peter Kafka about how she rose to a leadership role within one of the world's most talked-about new media companies. She discusses how th...

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Recode Decode: Deeds Not Words' Wendy Davis from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Former Texas State Senator Wendy Davis -- most famous for her filibuster to stop legislation that would severely restrict abortions in that state -- talks with Kara Swisher about her new digital in...

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Recode Decode: How disinformation poisoned a ‘Facebook nation’ from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Rappler co-founder Maria Ressa talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about doing investigative journalism in the Philippines, where social media has emboldened an autocratic president. In this episode: ...

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Best of: Anand Giridharadas from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Journalist and Winners Take All author Anand Giridharadas talks with Recode's Kara Swisher in these excerpts from two of our favorite episodes, originally published in October 2018 and May 2019. Th...

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'The Fixer' author Bradley Tusk from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Tusk Ventures CEO Bradley Tusk returns to Recode Decode to talk with Recode's Kara Swisher about his new book, "The Fixer: My Adventures Saving Startups from Death by Politics." In this episode: (0...

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Max Levchin, Affirm CEO from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Affirm CEO and PayPal co-founder Max Levchin talks with Kara Swisher about being a serial entrepreneur and discovering more about himself in the process. He also discusses why startup founders and ...

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Recode Decode: Keith Rabois says winter is coming for wasteful startups from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Khosla Ventures investment partner Keith Rabois talks with Kara Swisher about building PayPal before the dot-com crash and the entrepreneurial lessons he applied from that company to later jobs at ...

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Best of Recode Decode: Shoshana Zuboff from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

In this best-of episode, originally published in February 2019, Kara Swisher talks with Harvard Business School professor emerita Shoshana Zuboff about her book The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: ...

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Recode Decode: Undocumented immigrants are people, not political props from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his book, "Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen," and how the shift the cultural conversation ...

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Best of: Hillary Clinton from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Here are excerpts from two of our favorite episodes of Recode Decode, originally published in June 2017 and October 2018. In the first section, recorded live at the 2017 Code Conference, Recode's K...

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Hillary Clinton from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Former U.S. Secretary of State and 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton talks with Recode's Kara Swisher in front of a live audience at the 92nd Street Y in New York City. In this episode: (...

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Chris Altchek, Mic CEO from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Mic CEO Chris Altchek talks with Peter Kafka about building a news site for millennials and why such a thing should exist in the first place. He explores the differences among newsreading generatio...

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Recode Decode: Steve Case’s “Third Wave” from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Investor and former America Online CEO Steve Case, the author of a new book called "The Third Wave," talks with Kara Swisher about how companies like AOL made on-ramps to the Internet and where we'...

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Best of Recode Decode: Esther Perel from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

In this best-of episode, originally published in March 2018, Kara Swisher talks to sex and relationship therapist Esther Perel, the host of the podcast Where Should We Begin? Perel discusses her th...

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Recode Decode: After 20,000 workers walked out, Google said it got the message. The workers disagree. from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Six of the organizers of the Nov. 1 Google walkouts — Erica Anderson, Claire Stapleton, Meredith Whittaker, Stephanie Parker, Cecelia O'Neil-Hart and Amr Gaber — talk with Recode's Kara Swisher abo...

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Best of: John Carreyrou from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Here is one of our favorite episodes of Recode Decode, originally published in May 2018. In it, Recode's Kara Swisher talks to Wall Street Journal investigative reporter John Carreyrou about his bo...

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'Positive Populism' author Steve Hilton from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Former Crowdpac CEO Steve Hilton talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his latest book, "Positive Populism," and his Fox News show, "The Next Revolution." In this episode: (01:57) Hilton's backgro...

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Trae Vassallo and Michele Madansky, Co-Authors, "The Elephant in the Valley" from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Former Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers partner Trae Vassallo and former Yahoo exec Michele Madansky sit down with Kara Swisher to talk about "The Elephant in the Valley," their new report on gende...

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Recode Decode: Dave Gilboa and Neil Blumenthal, co-CEOs, Warby Parker from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Warby Parker co-founders and co-CEOs Dave Gilboa and Neil Blumenthal talk with Re/code's Senior Commerce Editor Jason Del Rey about how they challenged the incumbents of the eyewear business, which...

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Best of Recode Decode: Patty McCord from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

In this best-of episode, originally published in January 2018, Kara Swisher talks to Netflix's former chief talent officer Patty McCord about that company's famous "culture deck" and her book Power...

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Recode Decode: Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff talks with Recode's Kara Swisher on the latest episode of her MSNBC TV show, "Revolution." Fan of the show? It helps to leave a rating and review on Apple Podcasts. Lear...

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Best of: Stacey Abrams from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Here are excerpts from two of our favorite episodes of Recode Decode, originally published in November 2017 and June 2019. In the first part of the show, Recode's Kara Swisher and SKDK's Hilary Ros...

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'Will & Grace' co-star Sean Hayes from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Actor and producer Sean Hayes talks with Recode's Kara Swisher in this live interview recorded at the Boomtown Brewery in Los Angeles. In this episode: (02:38) Hayes' background in music and dinner...

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Albert Wenger, Union Square Ventures Partner from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Union Square Ventures partner Albert Wenger talks with Peter Kafka about being an investor at a time of bubble anxiety and political debate about the trade-off between privacy and security. He argu...

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Recode Decode: Anne Wojcicki, CEO, 23andMe from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Kara Swisher talks with 23andMe CEO Anne Wojcicki about why the personal genomics company's mission is unchanged after a battle with the FDA. Wojcicki argues that understanding one's own genetic tr...

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Best of Recode Decode: Anthony Scaramucci from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

In this best-of episode, originally published in March 2018, Kara Swisher talks to former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci about his infamous 11-day stint in the Trump adminis...

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Recode Decode: Should the First Amendment apply to Facebook? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Jameel Jaffer, the executive director of Columbia University's Knight First Amendment Institute, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about free speech and censorship on platforms like Facebook and Twi...

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Best of: Elon Musk from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Here's one of our favorite episodes of Recode Decode, originally published in November 2018. In it, Recode's Kara Swisher talks to Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk about Tesla's turbulent 2018, when ...

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23andMe CEO Anne Wojcicki from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

23andMe CEO Anne Wojcicki talks with Recode's Kara Swisher in this live interview recorded at the Rock Health Summit in San Francisco. In this episode: (01:30) Elizabeth Warren's heritage and dispu...

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Happy Re/New Year 2016; CES Preview from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

It's an all-star lineup of reporters from Re/code and The Verge in this special episode, featuring Kara Swisher, Lauren Goode, Casey Newton and Noah Kulwin. The team discusses the top tech stories ...

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Recode Decode: Renaud Laplanche, CEO, Lending Club from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Lending Club CEO Renaud Laplanche talks with Kara Swisher about the benefits of online financial services in a world that no longer needs old-fashioned bank branches. He also explains why Lending C...

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Best of Recode Decode: Chamath Palihapitiya from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

In these best-of interview excerpts — originally published in March 2016, August 2017, and March 2020 — Kara Swisher talks with venture capitalist and Social Capital CEO Chamath Palihapitiya. They ...

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Recode Decode: Milk Bar CEO Christina Tosi from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

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Series finale: Vox CEO Jim Bankoff, Recode Decode's best moments, and fan favorite guests return to question Kara Swisher from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

After five years, Kara Swisher signs off as the host of Recode Decode. She and her producer Eric Johnson discuss five of the best moments in the show's 539-episode history; then, she talks with Vox...

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Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Eric Garcetti, the twice-elected mayor of Los Angeles, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about politics in the city and California — and why he's thinking about running for President in 2020. In thi...

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Rufus Griscom, Heleo CEO from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Heleo CEO Rufus Griscom talks with Peter Kafka about trying to build a "BuzzFeed for brains" that can distribute Big Ideas to the broader Internet. He also discusses the founding of his two previou...

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Recode Decode: Chamath Palihapitiya, Investor, Social Capital from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Social Capital founder Chamath Palihapitiya talks with Kara Swisher about working on Winamp, AOL Instant Messenger and Facebook before becoming an outspoken investor. In today's Silicon Valley, he ...

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Best of Recode Decode: Sarah Cooper from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

In this best-of episode originally published in January 2018, writer and comedian Sarah Cooper talks with Kara Swisher and Dick Costolo about why she left a career in the tech industry to become a ...

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Recode Decode: Why nonprofits should think more like tech companies from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Stanford lecturer Kathleen Kelly Janus talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about her book, "Social Startup Success: How the Best Nonprofits Launch, Scale Up and Make a Difference." In this episode: (0...

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Sridhar Ramaswamy: Your search history is "incredibly personal" from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Former Google executive Sridhar Ramaswamy talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his new startup, Neeva, which promises to offer paying subscribers a search engine with no ads and without selling i...

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AnchorFree CEO David Gorodyansky from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

AnchorFree CEO David Gorodyansky talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about how the company's VPN app Hotspot Shield has led it to enter several other internet security concerns. In this episode: (01:5...

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Niccolo de Masi, Glu CEO; Top Gadgets of 2015 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Glu Mobile CEO Niccolo de Masi talks with Kara Swisher about Glu's hit games like Kim Kardashian: Hollywood and Katy Perry Pop, and what makes them different from earlier video games based on licen...

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Recode Decode: Orion Hindawi, CEO, Tanium from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Tanium CEO Orion Hindawi talks with Re/code's Arik Hesseldahl about why it's easier than ever for hackers to strike at companies and governments, and why those who cling to obsolete security soluti...

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Best of Recode Decode: Ellen Pao from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

In this best-of episode originally published in October 2017, Recode's Kara Swisher talks to investor Ellen Pao about her book, Reset: My Fight for Inclusion and Lasting Change, which chronicled Pa...

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Recode Decode: Sally Yates from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates talks with Recode's Kara Swisher in front of a live audience at the AllRaise Summit in San Francisco. (Note: This interview was recorded before the midter...

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Rose Marcario: Young people want to vote with their dollars from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Former Patagonia CEO Rose Marcario talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about the company's history of activism, the Facebook ad boycott that Patagonia helped start, and what she hopes it will accompli...

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2U CEO Chip Paucek from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

2U CEO Chip Paucek talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about the future of online college education. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Ev Williams, Medium CEO from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Medium CEO Ev Williams talks with Peter Kafka about founding his third company that makes it easier to "write on the Interwebs," and what makes Medium different from Blogger and Twitter. He also di...

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Recode Decode: Ash Carter, United States Secretary of Defense from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

U.S. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter talks with Kara Swisher about his efforts to unite the Pentagon and Silicon Valley behind common goals, including a new "innovation advisory board" chaired by E...

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Best of Recode Decode: James Corden from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

In this best-of episode originally published in October 2016, Recode's Kara Swisher talks to the host of The Late Late Show, James Corden, about redesigning a talk show for the YouTube generation. ...

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Recode Decode: RevUp CEO Steve Spinner from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Former Democratic fundraiser Steve Spinner talks with Recode's Teddy Schleifer about his online fundraising startup, RevUp. In this episode: (01:17) Spinner's background; (04:04) How he got into ca...

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Aminatou Sow: Friendships matter, especially right now from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Call Your Girlfriend co-host Aminatou Sow talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about upcoming book with Ann Friedman, Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close. Sow discusses "how [she] got bamboozl...

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Pivot: Google's data breach, Facebook Portal and Taylor Swift from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

If you like Recode Decode, we think you'll also like our newest podcast, Pivot with Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway. Here's the latest episode. If you like it, please search for and subscribe to Pi...

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Jeremy Stoppelman, Yelp CEO; Virtual Reality Shenanigans from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman talks with Kara Swisher about spending a decade at the helm of the local-recommendations site, and the new challenges posed by private companies that can out-raise the pu...

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Recode Decode: Sam Shank, CEO, HotelTonight from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

HotelTonight CEO Sam Shank talks with Kara Swisher about taking only 10 weeks to launch an online travel app. He explains how the startup worked to avoid being perceived as "another Groupon" and wh...

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Best of Recode Decode: Nikole Hannah-Jones from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

In this best-of episode, Recode's Kara Swisher talked to New York Times Magazine reporter Nikole Hannah-Jones about how COVID-19 magnified inequality in the US, and our historical failure to treat ...

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Samantha Power: How the US should be responding to coronavirus from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Harvard professor Samantha Power, the former US ambassador the United Nations, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about her 2019 memoir The Education of an Idealist, what idealism looks like now in A...

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Former Cisco CEO John Chambers from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

John Chambers, the former chairman and CEO of Cisco, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about the future of startups and his book, "Connecting the Dots: Leadership Lessons in a Startup World." In thi...

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Katie Nolan, Fox Sports TV Host from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Katie Nolan talks with Peter Kafka about how she went from Tumblr to YouTube to television, specifically Fox Sports 1, where she hosts "Garbage Time with Katie Nolan." They also discuss online hara...

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Recode Decode: Gavin Newsom, Lieutenant Governor, California from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

California Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom talks with Kara Swisher about why the government's approach to technology needs to be completely reimagined. A former mayor of San Francisco, Newsom argu...

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Best of Recode Decode: Maria Ressa from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

In this best-of episode, Recode's Kara Swisher talks to Rappler CEO Maria Ressa about doing investigative journalism in the Philippines, where social media has emboldened an autocratic president. R...

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Barry Lyga and Morgan Baden: What if everyone had to use social media? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

The Hive authors Barry Lyga and Morgan Baden talk with Recode's Kara Swisher about how they came to write a young adult book about a social media dystopia, based on a cinematic idea from actor Jenn...

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'Sorry to Bother You' director Boots Riley from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Boots Riley, the writer and director of the satirical dark comedy film "Sorry to Bother You," talks with Recode's Kara Swisher and Shirin Ghaffary. In this episode: (01:55) Riley's background as a ...

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Marc Lore, Jet.com CEO; Apple's Ugly Battery Case from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Jet.com CEO Marc Lore talks with Re/code's Senior Commerce Editor Jason Del Rey about trying to build a new e-commerce giant when rival Amazon has a 20-year lead. Also: Why is Jet.com raising so mu...

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Recode Decode: Hadi Partovi, CEO, Code.org from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Code.org CEO Hadi Partovi talks with Kara Swisher about how he discovered his love for programming, and how Steve Jobs' death spurred him to create a non-profit that would spread that love to other...

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Best of Recode Decode: Edward Snowden from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

In this best-of episode, Recode's Kara Swisher talks to NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden about his book "Permanent Record," how his youthful love of the US government and the early internet turned ...

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Symone Sanders: Inside the Biden campaign at a moment of national unrest from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Symone Sanders, a senior advisor to Joe Biden and former national press secretary for Bernie Sanders, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about the 2020 campaign and her new memoir, No, You Shut Up: S...

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Rep. Ro Khanna explains his internet bill of rights from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Congressman Ro Khanna returns to Recode Decode to talk with Recode's Kara Swisher about his proposal for an "internet bill of rights," which Kara discussed in her latest column for the New York Tim...

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Brian Rolapp, NFL Media Czar from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

The NFL's media czar Brian Rolapp talks with Peter Kafka about why Internet companies might (or might not) get the rights to a soon-to-be-auctioned set of games. They also discuss what makes live s...

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Recode Decode: Andrew Jarecki, "The Jinx" Director from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Andrew Jarecki joins Peter Kafka to talk about the success of true-crime documentary series such as "Making a Murderer," "Serial" and the show he directed, "The Jinx." He also discusses his history...

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Best of Recode Decode: Maggie Haberman and David Fahrenthold from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

In this best-of episode, originally published in September 2017, Recode's Kara Swisher talks to New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman and Washington Post reporter David Fahrenthold about their re...

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Jason Fried: Would you pay to get less email? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Basecamp CEO Jason Fried talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about the company's new email product, Hey, which he describes as "the most ambitious and stupidest thing we’ve ever done." Fried also disc...

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'Winners Take All' author Anand Giridharadas from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Author and journalist Anand Giridharadas talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his latest book, "Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World." In this episode: (02:07) Giridharadas' ...

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Dick Costolo, Former Twitter CEO; Hoverboards from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Former Twitter CEO Dick Costolo sits down with Kara Swisher to talk about what he's doing next, what he thinks of Twitter's future under Jack Dorsey and why men often fail to "do diversity." Later,...

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Recode Decode: Mike Cagney, CEO, SoFi from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

SoFi CEO Mike Cagney sits down with Kara Swisher to discuss why financial technology startups are suddenly hot and how SoFi hopes to eventually replace your bank, even though it has no permanent ph...

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Best of Recode Decode: Scott Galloway from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

In these best-of excerpts from several episodes of Recode Decode, Kara Swisher talks to her Pivot co-host Scott Galloway about the tech giants, the secrets of happiness, and the future of business ...

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Katie Couric: How the media and the country are changing after George Floyd's killing from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Katie Couric, the former host of the Today Show and anchor of the CBS Evening News, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about why the current moment of political protest feels unlike anything that cam...

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'Full Frontal' host Samantha Bee from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Samantha Bee, the host of "Full Frontal" on TBS, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about doing TV comedy in 2018 and her new political trivia app, This is Not a Game: The Game. In this episode: (02:...

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Ricky Van Veen, CollegeHumor Co-Founder from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

In this first episode of Peter Kafka's new weekly "Re/code Decode" interviews, CollegeHumor co-founder Ricky Van Veen sits down with Peter to talk about monetizing content on the Internet and why i...

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The business of meatless meat with Beyond Meat CEO Ethan Brown from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Today’s episode is with Beyond Meat founder and CEO Ethan Brown. Nilay and Ethan discuss how the company is doing since its IPO in 2019 and how they are fairing during the pandemic. The food supply...

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Recode Decode: Chet Kanojia, Starry CEO from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Starry CEO Chet Kanojia, formerly the founder and CEO of Aereo, is back with another startup aimed at taking on the man. He sits down with Peter Kafka to talk about Starry, which aims to attack bro...

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Best of Recode Decode: Nicole Wong from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

In this best-of episode, former deputy CTO of the United States Nicole Wong talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher about the future of tech policy and why content moderation is more complicated than many...

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Jill Lepore: Technology will never fix injustice automatically from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

American historian and New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about her new podcast, The Last Archive, which investigates "who killed truth?" in the style of a true-cr...

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Square CFO Sarah Friar and Instacart CEO Apoorva Mehta from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

In these highlights from our September 2018 Code Commerce event, Recode's Jason Del Rey talks with two great guests: (00:57) First, he speaks to Square CFO Sarah Friar; (35:02) then, Jason intervie...

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Brian Chesky, Airbnb CEO; Holiday Gift Guide from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky talks with Kara Swisher about being in Paris during the city's recent terror attacks, and what the hospitality company is doing after a major political win in San Francisco....

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How the @!#$ does advertising work, with Cadillac CMO Melissa Grady from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Advertising is a huge part of the economy and something we all experience everyday through various mediums. In this episode, Nilay Patel talks with Cadillac CMO Melissa Grady about how advertising ...

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Recode Decode: Eric Weiner, Author of "The Geography of Genius" from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Eric Weiner, author of New York Times bestseller "The Geography of Bliss" and the new book "The Geography of Genius," talks with Kara Swisher about how where we live can make us smarter and more in...

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Best of Recode Decode: Boots Riley from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

In this best-of episode, Recode's Kara Swisher and Shirin Ghaffary talk to Boots Riley, the writer and director of the satirical dark comedy film Sorry to Bother You. They discuss how he got the mo...

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Bart Gellman: What is Edward Snowden's legacy? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Journalist and author Bart Gellman talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his newest book, Dark Mirror: Edward Snowden and the American Surveillance State. Gellman discusses how he got connected wi...

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Jawbone Health CEO Hosain Rahman from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Jawbone co-founder Hosain Rahman talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about the company's next act: A medical subscripton service called Jawbone Health that hopes to catch health problems early. In thi...

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B.J. Novak and Dev Flaherty, The List App Co-Founders; iPad Pro from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

The List App co-founders B.J. Novak and Dev Flaherty talk about their new mobile-social app for making lists and how tech is changing the entertainment world. Later, Lauren Goode joins Kara to talk...

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Can Substack CEO Chris Best build a new model for journalism? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Nilay Patel talks to Chris Best, cofounder and CEO of Substack, the subscription newsletter startup that’s taken the media industry by storm over the past few months. The conversation explores how ...

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Recode Decode: Nick Denton, Gawker Media Founder, and Jason Epstein, Investor from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Gawker Media founder Nick Denton and new board member Jason Epstein, who just bought a minority share of the company, sit down with Peter Kafka to discuss the online media company's rapidly changin...

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Best of Recode Decode: Kathy Griffin from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

In this best-of episode, originally published in March 2019, comedian Kathy Griffin talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about the notorious photo shoot that got her investigated by the Secret Service,...

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Andy Puddicombe, Robin Arzon, and Marianne Williamson: How to take care of your mind, body, and spirit in quarantine from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Recode's Kara Swisher talks with three guests about how to take care of your mind, body, and spirit while in quarantine. Headspace co-founder Andy Puddicombe discusses the challenges of getting peo...

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BONUS: Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom in 2017 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Instagram co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger are resigning from the company, six years after Facebook bought it for $1 billion. Recode reports that they had grown "increasingly frustrated a...

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Brent Bushnell and Eric Gradman, Two Bit Circus Co-Founders; New BlackBerries from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Two Bit Circus CEO Brent Bushnell and CTO Eric Gradman talk with Kara Swisher about their high-tech circus, STEAM Carnival; fixing education; and why playing games will break down kids' aversion to...

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Best of: Patty McCord from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

In this best-of episode, originally published in January 2018, Kara Swisher talks to Netflix's former chief talent officer Patty McCord about that company's famous "culture deck" and her book Power...

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Alamo Drafthouse CEO Shelli Taylor on going back to the movies from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

On this episode of Decoder, Nilay talks with Shelli Taylor, the CEO of Alamo Drafthouse. Shelli stepped into her new role as CEO during the pandemic. In this conversation, Nilay and Shelli discuss ...

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Recode Decode: John Zimmer, Lyft President from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Lyft President John Zimmer sits down with Kara Swisher to talk about the company's transition from ridesharing to autonomous cars, the focus of a recently announced partnership with GM. He also dis...

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Best of Recode Decode: Tristan Harris from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Tristan Harris, the co-founder of the Center for Humane Technology, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher in these two best-of interview excerpts. In the first interview, originally published in January...

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Frances Frei: Treating people equally is not the same thing as treating them fairly from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Harvard Business School professor Frances Frei talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about the new book she wrote with her wife Anne Morriss, Unleashed: The Unapologetic Leader's Guide to Empowering Eve...

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World Bank Group president Jim Yong Kim from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Jim Yong Kim, the president of the World Bank Group, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about how big data can prevent famines around the world and how to engage tech leaders in solving huge problems...

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Aaron Levie, Box CEO; Android vs. iOS from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Box CEO Aaron Levie talks with Kara Swisher about the next wave of enterprise companies and why having $80,000 is better than having $10 million. Later on: How could switching between iOS and Andro...

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Best of: Anthony Scaramucci from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

In this best-of episode, originally published in March 2018, Kara Swisher talks to former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci about his infamous 11-day stint in the Trump adminis...

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Microsoft's Phil Spencer on launching the new Xbox and the future of games from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

On this week’s episode of Decoder Nilay Patel talks to Phil Spencer, the guy in charge of Xbox at Microsoft. They discuss not only the next-generation Xbox and PS5 just arriving in stores now, but ...

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Recode Decode: Shani Hilton, BuzzFeed Executive Editor of News from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

BuzzFeed’s Executive Editor of News Shani Hilton talks with Peter Kafka about how she rose to a leadership role within one of the world's most talked-about new media companies. She discusses how th...

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Best of Recode Decode: Margrethe Vestager from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Margrethe Vestager, the European Commissioner for Competition and a three-time Recode Decode guest, talks with Kara Swisher in these three excerpts from her appearances on the show. Originally publ...

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Daniel Schreiber: How COVID-19 affects the insurance business from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Lemonade CEO and co-founder Daniel Schreiber talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about what happens to an insurance in a crisis like COVID-19, how some of the money from Lemonade customers' premiums w...

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The NYT's Maggie Haberman, HuffPost's Lydia Polgreen and actor Jane Lynch from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

In this bonus episode of Recode Decode, you get two interviews for the price of one, both conducted by Recode's Kara Swisher at the Lesbians Who Tech Summit in New York City. First, New York Times ...

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Sequoia Capital Chairman Sir Michael Moritz, Food Delivery Services from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Venture capitalist and co-author of "Leading" Michael Moritz talks with Kara Swisher about the history and future of investing and leadership. Later on: Do food delivery services have a place outsi...

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Remote learning is here to stay — can we make it better? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

On this week’s episode of Decoder, Nilay Patel talks with Sal Khan, the co-founder and CEO of Khan Academy, a nonprofit online learning platform for students in kindergarten through high school. Kh...

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Recode Decode: Max Levchin, Affirm CEO from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Affirm CEO and PayPal co-founder Max Levchin talks with Kara Swisher about being a serial entrepreneur and discovering more about himself in the process. He also discusses why startup founders and ...

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Best of Recode Decode: Tim Cook from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Apple CEO Tim Cook talks with Recode's Kara Swisher and MSNBC's Chris Hayes in this live interview that originally aired in April 2018. This conversation was broadcast on MSNBC for the TV show Revo...

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Jon Mooallem: How one city, united by radio, pulled together after an earthquake from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

New York Times Magazine writer-at-large Jon Mooallem talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his newest book, This Is Chance!: The Shaking of an All-American City, A Voice That Held It Together. It ...

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'Swiped' director Nancy Jo Sales from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Journalist and author Nancy Jo Sales talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about her new HBO documentary, "Swiped: Hooking Up in the Digital Age." In this episode:03:41 - How Sales started writing about...

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Huffington Post Editor in Chief Arianna Huffington, 4K TVs from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Huffington Post editor-in-chief Arianna Huffington talks with Kara Swisher about why journalism is going mobile, but she won?t take her phone to bed. Later on: is 4K TV the future, or just hype? Le...

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Mark Cuban on the presidency and the future of American business from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

On the first episode of Decoder, Nilay Patel interviews Mark Cuban. Mark is the owner of the Dallas Mavericks, he’s a tech investor, and is on the hit show, Shark Tank. The conversation, recorded a...

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Recode Decode: Chris Altchek, Mic CEO from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Mic CEO Chris Altchek talks with Peter Kafka about building a news site for millennials and why such a thing should exist in the first place. He explores the differences among newsreading generatio...

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Best of Recode Decode: Mark Zuckerberg from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg talks with Recode's Kara Swisher in this interview, which was originally published in July 2018. They discuss why Facebook hadn't banned Alex Jones and Inforwars (a sta...

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Phil Howard and Emily Bell: Disinformation in 2020, from "Plandemic" to Bill Gates to "Obamagate" from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Phil Howard, the Oxford Internet Institute director and author of Lie Machines, and Emily Bell, the director of Columbia University's Tow Center for Digital Journalism, talk with Recode's Kara Swis...

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'AI Superpowers' author Kai-Fu Lee from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Kai-Fu Lee, the CEO of Sinovation Ventures and former president of Google China, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his new book, "AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order...

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Betaworks CEO and co-founder John Borthwick, TV streaming boxes and daily fantasy from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

John Borthwick, CEO of the "startup studio" Betaworks, tells Peter Kafka why mobile apps still rule, why he's still bullish on Twitter user growth and more. Later, Lauren Goode and Kara Swisher tal...

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Recode Decode: The ‘bad ideas’ that broke American capitalism from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Washington Post economics columnist Steven Pearlstein talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his new book, "Can American Capitalism Survive?: Why Greed Is Not Good, Opportunity Is Not Equal, and Fa...

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Recode Decode: Trae Vassallo and Michele Madansky, Co-Authors, "The Elephant in the Valley" from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Former Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers partner Trae Vassallo and former Yahoo exec Michele Madansky sit down with Kara Swisher to talk about "The Elephant in the Valley," their new report on gende...

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Best of Recode Decode: Carole Cadwalladr from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

The Guardian and Observer reporter Carole Cadwalladr talks with Recode's Kara Swisher in this interview, which was originally published in July 2019. They discuss her investigations into the Cambri...

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Dara Khosrowshahi: How Uber is changing and being challenged by a global pandemic from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about Uber's evolving response to the COVID-19 pandemic, how it's preparing for the world to re-open, and the one segment of the company ...

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Nicole Wong, former deputy CTO of the United States from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Former deputy CTO of the United States Nicole Wong talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher about the future of tech policy and why content moderation is more complicated than many people think. In this ep...

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Ericsson CEO Hans Vestberg, Code/Mobile and Google search from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Ericsson is maybe the largest communications technology company on the planet. This week, CEO Hans Vestberg tells Kara Swisher about the view from the top, and why he's excited about connectivity i...

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Recode Decode: Why the New York Times won’t sell itself to a billionaire from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

A.G. Sulzberger, the publisher of the New York Times, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher in front of a live audience at a Columbia University event in New York City. In this episode: (03:05) 10 month...

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Recode Decode: Albert Wenger, Union Square Ventures Partner from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Union Square Ventures partner Albert Wenger talks with Peter Kafka about being an investor at a time of bubble anxiety and political debate about the trade-off between privacy and security. He argu...

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Best of Recode Decode: Anand Giridharadas from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Journalist and Winners Take All author Anand Giridharadas talks with Recode's Kara Swisher in these excerpts from two of our favorite episodes, originally published in October 2018 and May 2019. Th...

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Brian Chesky: These 9 weeks were the most stressful in Airbnb’s history from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

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'Big Game' author Mark Leibovich from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

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White House Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett, TV streaming and Twitter from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Valerie Jarrett is one of President Obama's most trusted confidants, and by extension one of the most powerful people in Washington. She talks with Kara Swisher about the tech industry, gun control...

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Recode Decode: Elon Musk from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about Tesla's turbulent 2018, when SpaceX will send its first rocket to Mars, why he fights with journalists on Twitter and much more...

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Recode Decode: Happy Re/New Year 2016; CES Preview from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

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Best of Recode Decode: Hillary Clinton from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

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Gene Sperling: Now is the perfect time to fix economic dignity in America from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Former Clinton and Obama economic advisor Gene Sperling talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his latest book, Economic Dignity, and how the COVID-19 pandemic is changing attitudes toward essentia...

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Slack chief product officer April Underwood from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

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Lenny newsletter co-founders Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

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Recode Decode: 'Good and Mad' author Rebecca Traister from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

New York Magazine writer Rebecca Traister talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about her new book, "Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger." In this episode: (01:37) Traister's backgrou...

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Recode Decode: Rufus Griscom, Heleo CEO from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

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Best of Recode Decode: John Carreyrou from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Here is one of our favorite episodes of Recode Decode, originally published in May 2018. In it, Recode's Kara Swisher talks to Wall Street Journal investigative reporter John Carreyrou about his bo...

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Casey Newton and Louie Swisher: How quarantine is changing consumer tech and education from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Recode's Kara Swisher talks with the Verge's Casey Newton and her older son, Louie Swisher, about how the COVID-19 pandemic and quarantine has affected their tech habits. They also discuss Louie's ...

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Sleeping Giants founder Matt Rivitz from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

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Microsoft EVP Peggy Johnson, digital media and car tech from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Kara Swisher discusses the shiny, new startup-friendly Microsoft with its partnerships chief, Peggy Johnson. Plus, Lauren Goode on Internet publishing and Mark Bergen on advanced car tech. Learn mo...

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Recode Decode: 'The Fixer' author Bradley Tusk from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Tusk Ventures CEO Bradley Tusk returns to Recode Decode to talk with Recode's Kara Swisher about his new book, "The Fixer: My Adventures Saving Startups from Death by Politics." In this episode: (0...

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Recode Decode: Niccolo de Masi, Glu CEO from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

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Best of Recode Decode: Stacey Abrams from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

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Jon Meacham: America's history can teach us how to hope for our future from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

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U.S. Justice Department antitrust lawyer Makan Delrahim from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

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Buzzfeed founder Jonah Peretti, Apple announcements and e-payments from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

BuzzFeed is one of the most important and successful new media companies, tying together deeply reported impact journalism with content optimized for the digital age. Peter Kafka talks with founder...

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Recode Decode: Hillary Clinton from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

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Recode Decode: Ev Williams, Medium CEO from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Medium CEO Ev Williams talks with Peter Kafka about founding his third company that makes it easier to "write on the Interwebs," and what makes Medium different from Blogger and Twitter. He also di...

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Best of Recode Decode: Elon Musk from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Here's one of our favorite episodes of Recode Decode, originally published in November 2018. In it, Recode's Kara Swisher talks to Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk about Tesla's turbulent 2018, when ...

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Maye Musk: The adventure of raising Elon, Kimbal, and Tosca — and the joys of life and work *after* they grew up from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

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'Temp' author Louis Hyman from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Louis Hyman, an economic historian and professor at Cornell University, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher and Rani Molla about his new book, "Temp: How American Work, American Business, and the Amer...

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LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner, productivity apps and wearables from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Like rivals Facebook and Twitter, LinkedIn is no longer just a social network, it's a content platform, a recruiting tool, a resume builder and much, much more. In the Red Chair this week, CEO Jeff...

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Recode Decode: 'Positive Populism' author Steve Hilton from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Former Crowdpac CEO Steve Hilton talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his latest book, "Positive Populism," and his Fox News show, "The Next Revolution." In this episode: (01:57) Hilton's backgro...

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Recode Decode: Jeremy Stoppelman, Yelp CEO from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

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Recode Decode series finale: Vox CEO Jim Bankoff and fan-favorite guests from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

After five years, Kara Swisher signs off as the host of Recode Decode. She and her producer Eric Johnson discuss five of the best moments in the show's 539-episode history; then, she talks with Vox...

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Joe Walsh: Joe Biden doesn’t need to campaign — 2020 is all about Trump from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Former Republican Congressman Joe Walsh talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about why he tried to primary Donald Trump earlier this year, how the Republican Party became a "cult," and his recent book,...

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Maker Faire founder Dale Dougherty and Make Magazine editor Mike Senese from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Two of the godfathers of the maker movement — Maker Faire founder Dale Dougherty and Make Magazine editor in chief Mike Senese — talk with Recode's Kara Swisher about how the movement has gone main...

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Marc Andreessen, investor and entrepreneur from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

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Recode Decode: 'Will & Grace' co-star Sean Hayes from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Actor and producer Sean Hayes talks with Recode's Kara Swisher in this live interview recorded at the Boomtown Brewery in Los Angeles. In this episode: (02:38) Hayes' background in music and dinner...

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Recode Decode: Katie Nolan, Fox Sports TV Host from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Katie Nolan talks with Peter Kafka about how she went from Tumblr to YouTube to television, specifically Fox Sports 1, where she hosts "Garbage Time with Katie Nolan." They also discuss online hara...

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Recode Decode: Sridhar Ramaswamy from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

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Scott Galloway: Tenure for college professors is bullshit, how COVID-19 will revolutionize healthcare, and what the first trillionaire will do from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

NYU Professor and Pivot co-host Scott Galloway returns to Recode Decode to talk about his new show on Vice TV, No Mercy, No Malice with Professor Scott Galloway. He and Recode's Kara Swisher also t...

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Haystack founder Semil Shah from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Haystack founder and Lightspeed Ventures venture partner Semil Shah talks with Recode's Teddy Schleifer about breaking into the VC world and how the industry is changing. In this episode:03:45 - Ho...

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Ex-Googler Erica Baker, drone do's and don'ts and car tech from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Google salary spreadsheet creator Erica Baker talks diversity in tech with Kara Swisher, Lauren Goode debriefs drones and Ina Fried discusses car tech. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megap...

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Recode Decode: 23andMe CEO Anne Wojcicki from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

23andMe CEO Anne Wojcicki talks with Recode's Kara Swisher in this live interview recorded at the Rock Health Summit in San Francisco. In this episode: (01:30) Elizabeth Warren's heritage and dispu...

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Recode Decode: Marc Lore, Jet.com CEO from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Jet.com CEO Marc Lore talks with Re/code's Senior Commerce Editor Jason Del Rey about trying to build a new e-commerce giant when rival Amazon has a 20-year lead. Also: Why is Jet.com raising so mu...

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Recode Decode: Rose Marcario from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Former Patagonia CEO Rose Marcario talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about the company's history of activism, the Facebook ad boycott that Patagonia helped start, and what she hopes it will accompli...

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Alexis Coe: What they don't tell you about George Washington from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Political historian Alexis Coe talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about her latest book, You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington, which seeks to break the staid formula by which...

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Senator Ron Wyden from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Ron Wyden, the senior U.S. Senator from Oregon, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about regulating the internet and protecting America's elections from both hackers and disinformation peddlers. In t...

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Twitter legal boss Vijaya Gadde, Apple's fall lineup and tech industry aging from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Twitter general counsel Vijaya Gadde talks about social media and the law, Walt Mossberg and Kara go back and forth on Apple's fall lineup and Kara gives the ABCs of aging in Silicon Valley. Learn ...

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Recode Decode: Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Eric Garcetti, the twice-elected mayor of Los Angeles, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about politics in the city and California — and why he's thinking about running for President in 2020. In thi...

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Recode Decode: Brian Rolapp, NFL Media Czar from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

The NFL's media czar Brian Rolapp talks with Peter Kafka about why Internet companies might (or might not) get the rights to a soon-to-be-auctioned set of games. They also discuss what makes live s...

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Recode Decode: Aminatou Sow from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Call Your Girlfriend co-host Aminatou Sow talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about upcoming book with Ann Friedman, Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close. Sow discusses "how [she] got bamboozl...

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Alex Kantrowitz: The pandemic will make tech giants even more powerful from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

BuzzFeed News reporter Alex Kantrowitz talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his new book, Always Day One: How The Tech Titans Plan To Stay On Top Forever. He discusses how coronavirus may change ...

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'High Growth Handbook' author Elad Gil from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Startup advisor and Color Genomics co-founder Elad Gil talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his new book, "High Growth Handbook: Scaling Startups from 10 to 10,000 People." In this episode:00:03:...

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Investor Chris Sacca, smartphone prices and "buy" buttons from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Investor Chris Sacca shares his thoughts on who might get the Twitter CEO job, Walt Mossberg dives into the weird world of wireless carriers and Jason Del Rey explains the rise of "buy" buttons. Le...

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Recode Decode: AnchorFree CEO David Gorodyansky from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

AnchorFree CEO David Gorodyansky talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about how the company's VPN app Hotspot Shield has led it to enter several other internet security concerns. In this episode: (01:5...

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Recode Decode: Dick Costolo, Former Twitter CEO from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Former Twitter CEO Dick Costolo sits down with Kara Swisher to talk about what he's doing next, what he thinks of Twitter's future under Jack Dorsey and why men often fail to "do diversity." Later,...

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Recode Decode: Samantha Power from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Harvard professor Samantha Power, the former US ambassador the United Nations, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about her 2019 memoir The Education of an Idealist, what idealism looks like now in A...

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Ryan Murphy: What if Hollywood had welcomed diversity from the beginning? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

TV producer Ryan Murphy — who created or produced shows like Glee, 911, and American Horror Story — talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his new Netflix miniseries, Hollywood, which blends real h...

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Andrew Moore, dean of Carnegie Mellon's School of Computer Science from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Andrew Moore, the dean of the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about the future of tech education as fields like artificial intelligence an...

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"Million Dollar Listing" star Roh Habibi, Snapchat and race in tech from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Kara talks with Roh Habibi, star of reality show "Million Dollar Listing San Francisco," and guest Amina Sow speaks about her experience as a black woman in tech. Learn more about your ad choices. ...

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Recode Decode: 2U CEO Chip Paucek from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

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Recode Decode: Ricky Van Veen, CollegeHumor Co-Founder from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

In this first episode of Peter Kafka's new weekly "Re/code Decode" interviews, CollegeHumor co-founder Ricky Van Veen sits down with Peter to talk about monetizing content on the Internet and why i...

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Recode Decode: Barry Lyga and Morgan Baden from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

The Hive authors Barry Lyga and Morgan Baden talk with Recode's Kara Swisher about how they came to write a young adult book about a social media dystopia, based on a cinematic idea from actor Jenn...

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Dave Asprey: How to be a biohacker from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Bulletproof founder and former CEO Dave Asprey talks about the invention and current state of “biohacking," how his blog for “bulletproof executives” grew into a global lifestyle, and the most impo...

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Glassdoor CEO Robert Hohman from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Robert Hohman, the co-founder and CEO of company-reviewing site Glassdoor, talks about how the company has evolved since its early days, when Hohman wanted to merge employer transparency with the g...

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Andreessen Horowitz GP Chris Dixon, Windows 10 and hacking cars from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Kara Swisher talks with Andreessen Horowitz general partner and entrepreneur and investor Chris Dixon about the landscape of venture capital and virtual reality. Walt Mossberg shares his perspectiv...

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Recode Decode: Former Cisco CEO John Chambers from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

John Chambers, the former chairman and CEO of Cisco, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about the future of startups and his book, "Connecting the Dots: Leadership Lessons in a Startup World." In thi...

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Recode Decode: Brian Chesky, Airbnb CEO from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky talks with Kara Swisher about being in Paris during the city's recent terror attacks, and what the hospitality company is doing after a major political win in San Francisco....

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Recode Decode: Symone Sanders from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Symone Sanders, a senior advisor to Joe Biden and former national press secretary for Bernie Sanders, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about the 2020 campaign and her new memoir, No, You Shut Up: S...

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Nikole Hannah-Jones: We're finally recognizing the workers who have always been "essential" from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

New York Times Magazine reporter Nikole Hannah-Jones talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about how the coronavirus pandemic is magnifying inequality in the US, and our historical failure to treat esse...

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Dr. Jen Gunter, OB/GYN and the internet's favorite Goop critic from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Jen Gunter, an OB/GYN and pain medicine physician, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about how celebrity wellness brands have been overtaken by "medical conspiracy theories" and dangerous recommenda...

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Y Combinator's Sam Altman, the Internet of Things and Google from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Kara Swisher talks with Y Combinator president and Reddit board member Sam Altman about the social news site and the challenges of entrepreneurship. Lauren Goode fields questions on the "Internet o...

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Recode Decode: 'Sorry to Bother You' director Boots Riley from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Boots Riley, the writer and director of the satirical dark comedy film "Sorry to Bother You," talks with Recode's Kara Swisher and Shirin Ghaffary. In this episode: (01:55) Riley's background as a ...

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Recode Decode: B.J. Novak and Dev Flaherty, The List App Co-Founders from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

The List App co-founders B.J. Novak and Dev Flaherty talk about their new mobile-social app for making lists and how tech is changing the entertainment world. Later, Lauren Goode joins Kara to talk...

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Recode Decode: Jason Fried from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Basecamp CEO Jason Fried talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about the company's new email product, Hey, which he describes as "the most ambitious and stupidest thing we’ve ever done." Fried also disc...

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Sarah Kendzior: We're still in denial about Donald Trump from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Bestselling author and Gaslit Nation co-host Sarah Kendzior talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about her new book, Hiding in Plain Sight: The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America; wha...

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BONUS: Uber Eats boss Jason Droege from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

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Elon Musk biographer Ashlee Vance, photo apps and Reddit from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Kara Swisher talks with journalist Ashlee Vance about his new book on Elon Musk. They discuss Musk's "Tony Stark" image, the future of Tesla and whether Musk is mellowing out. Also on the show: pho...

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Recode Decode: 'Winners Take All' author Anand Giridharadas from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Author and journalist Anand Giridharadas talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his latest book, "Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World." In this episode: (02:07) Giridharadas' ...

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Recode Decode: Brent Bushnell and Eric Gradman, Two Bit Circus Co-Founders from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Two Bit Circus CEO Brent Bushnell and CTO Eric Gradman talk with Kara Swisher about their high-tech circus, STEAM Carnival; fixing education; and why playing games will break down kids' aversion to...

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Recode Decode: Katie Couric from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Katie Couric, the former host of the Today Show and anchor of the CBS Evening News, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about why the current moment of political protest feels unlike anything that cam...

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Tim Ferriss: You’re not Isaac Newton! Give yourself a break for being unproductive right now. from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Bestselling author, investor, and podcaster Tim Ferriss talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his advice for people coping with the coronavirus quarantine, which includes giving yourself slack for...

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Sidecar co-founder Sunil Paul from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Sidecar co-founder Sunil Paul talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his popular guest column for Recode, “The scooter wars will be a bloodbath, and Uber will win.” He elaborates on why that is and...

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Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield, Apple Music from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

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Recode Decode: 'Full Frontal' host Samantha Bee from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Samantha Bee, the host of "Full Frontal" on TBS, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about doing TV comedy in 2018 and her new political trivia app, This is Not a Game: The Game. In this episode: (02:...

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Recode Decode: Aaron Levie, Box CEO from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

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Recode Decode: Jill Lepore from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

American historian and New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about her new podcast, The Last Archive, which investigates "who killed truth?" in the style of a true-cr...

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Mark Cuban: Capitalism must get kinder, Trump has done okay, and “universities are fucked" from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

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 ...

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Grab co-founder Hooi Ling Tan from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Hooi Ling Tan, the co-founder of southeast Asian ride-hailing company Grab, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher at the 2018 Rise conference in Hong Kong. Tan says Grab is opening up a platform for mor...

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Recode Decode: Square CFO Sarah Friar and Instacart CEO Apoorva Mehta from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

In these highlights from our September 2018 Code Commerce event, Recode's Jason Del Rey talks with two great guests: (00:57) First, he speaks to Square CFO Sarah Friar; (35:02) then, Jason intervie...

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Recode Decode: Sequoia Capital Chairman Sir Michael Moritz from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

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Recode Decode: Bart Gellman from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Journalist and author Bart Gellman talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his newest book, Dark Mirror: Edward Snowden and the American Surveillance State. Gellman discusses how he got connected wi...

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Mayor London Breed: How San Francisco is flattening the curve from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

San Francisco Mayor London Breed talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about why she was one of the first local leaders in the US to act on the spread of covid-19, how she thinks about the slow and dish...

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'General Magic' directors Sarah Kerruish and Matt Maude from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Sarah Kerruish and Matt Maude talk with Recode's Kara Swisher about their new documentary, "General Magic," which tells the story of a pioneering tech startup that tried and failed to invent a smar...

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Recode Decode: Jawbone Health CEO Hosain Rahman from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Jawbone co-founder Hosain Rahman talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about the company's next act: A medical subscripton service called Jawbone Health that hopes to catch health problems early. In thi...

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Recode Decode: Huffington Post Editor in Chief Arianna Huffington from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Huffington Post editor-in-chief Arianna Huffington talks with Kara Swisher about why journalism is going mobile, but she won?t take her phone to bed. Later on: is 4K TV the future, or just hype? Le...

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Recode Decode: Andy Puddicombe, Robin Arzon, and Marianne Williamson from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Recode's Kara Swisher talks with three guests about how to take care of your mind, body, and spirit while in quarantine. Headspace co-founder Andy Puddicombe discusses the challenges of getting peo...

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Jeffrey Katzenberg: It's not TV (or HBO, or Netflix). It's Quibi. from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Quibi founder Jeffrey Katzenberg talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about the first week of the short-form video app — which was intended for on-the-go consumers, but still racked up 1.7 million down...

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'The Billionaire Raj' author James Crabtree from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Journalist James Crabtree talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his new book, "The Billionaire Raj: A Journey Through India's New Gilded Age." Crabtree says India's development of a super-rich bil...

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Recode Decode: Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom in 2017 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Instagram co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger are resigning from the company, six years after Facebook bought it for $1 billion. Recode reports that they had grown "increasingly frustrated a...

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Recode Decode: Betaworks CEO and co-founder John Borthwick from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

John Borthwick, CEO of the "startup studio" Betaworks, tells Peter Kafka why mobile apps still rule, why he's still bullish on Twitter user growth and more. Later, Lauren Goode and Kara Swisher tal...

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Recode Decode: Frances Frei from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Harvard Business School professor Frances Frei talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about the new book she wrote with her wife Anne Morriss, Unleashed: The Unapologetic Leader's Guide to Empowering Eve...

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Sarah Frier: The inside story of Instagram and how it has changed since the founders left from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Bloomberg technology reporter Sarah Frier talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about her new book, No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram. Frier discusses how co-founders Mike Systrom and Danny Krieg...

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WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Matt Mullenweg, the co-founder of WordPress, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about how the blogging platform has evolved in the 13 years since it launched, powering a huge number of websites that ...

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Recode Decode: World Bank Group president Jim Yong Kim from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Jim Yong Kim, the president of the World Bank Group, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about how big data can prevent famines around the world and how to engage tech leaders in solving huge problems...

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Recode Decode: Ericsson CEO Hans Vestberg from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Ericsson is maybe the largest communications technology company on the planet. This week, CEO Hans Vestberg tells Kara Swisher about the view from the top, and why he's excited about connectivity i...

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Recode Decode: Daniel Schreiber from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Lemonade CEO and co-founder Daniel Schreiber talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about what happens to an insurance in a crisis like COVID-19, how some of the money from Lemonade customers' premiums w...

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Adam Grant: How quarantine will transform the way we work from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Organizational psychologist Adam Grant, the author of "Originals" and host of the podcast "WorkLife," talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about the benefits of working from home, and how work will cha...

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'Valley of Genius' author Adam Fisher from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Writer Adam Fisher talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his new oral history, 'Valley of Genius: The Uncensored History of Silicon Valley.' Fisher interviewed some of tech's biggest names for the...

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Recode Decode: The NYT's Maggie Haberman, HuffPost's Lydia Polgreen and actor Jane Lynch from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

In this bonus episode of Recode Decode, you get two interviews for the price of one, both conducted by Recode's Kara Swisher at the Lesbians Who Tech Summit in New York City. First, New York Times ...

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Recode Decode: White House Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Valerie Jarrett is one of President Obama's most trusted confidants, and by extension one of the most powerful people in Washington. She talks with Kara Swisher about the tech industry, gun control...

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Recode Decode: Jon Mooallem from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

New York Times Magazine writer-at-large Jon Mooallem talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his newest book, This Is Chance!: The Shaking of an All-American City, A Voice That Held It Together. It ...

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Niall Ferguson: How viruses (and fake news stories) spread, and how America screwed up its coronavirus response from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Historian Niall Ferguson, the author of bestselling books such as The Ascent of Money and The Square and the Tower, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his new PBS series, Networld, which explor...

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Alibaba exec Joe Tsai (Live at Code 2018) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Joe Tsai, the executive vice chairman of Chinese commerce giant Alibaba, talks with Recode’s Jason Del Rey at the 2018 Code Conference. He says that Alibaba has not tried to do a big acquisition de...

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Recode Decode: 'Swiped' director Nancy Jo Sales from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Journalist and author Nancy Jo Sales talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about her new HBO documentary, "Swiped: Hooking Up in the Digital Age." In this episode:03:41 - How Sales started writing about...

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Recode Decode: Lenny newsletter co-founders Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

In a special hour-long interview with Kara Swisher, Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner talk about their new newsletter publication, Lenny. The duo behind HBO's "Girls" offer their thoughts on feminism, o...

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Recode Decode: Phil Howard and Emily Bell from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Phil Howard, the Oxford Internet Institute director and author of Lie Machines, and Emily Bell, the director of Columbia University's Tow Center for Digital Journalism, talk with Recode's Kara Swis...

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Kevin Systrom: What we can learn about coronavirus by looking at the data from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Instagram co-founder and former CEO Kevin Systrom talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about the data analysis he has conducted and publicized about the global spread of coronavirus, and what it tells ...

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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg: The Kara Swisher interview from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about a litany of issues, including the Cambridge Analytica scandal and why Infowars and other conspiracy theorists, like Holocaust den...

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Recode Decode: 'AI Superpowers' author Kai-Fu Lee from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Kai-Fu Lee, the CEO of Sinovation Ventures and former president of Google China, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his new book, "AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order...

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Recode Decode: Microsoft EVP Peggy Johnson from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Kara Swisher discusses the shiny, new startup-friendly Microsoft with its partnerships chief, Peggy Johnson. Plus, Lauren Goode on Internet publishing and Mark Bergen on advanced car tech. Learn mo...

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Recode Decode: Dara Khosrowshahi from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about Uber's evolving response to the COVID-19 pandemic, how it's preparing for the world to re-open, and the one segment of the company ...

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David Plouffe: How to beat Donald Trump, and how coronavirus will change the election from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Former Obama advisor David Plouffe — who since leaving the White House has worked with Uber, the Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative, and Acronym — talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his new book, A Cit...

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How social media bots could tank your stock price from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Zignal Labs CEO Josh Ginsberg talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher about the “massive amounts of bot activity” that his media intelligence company has started detecting on social media. In everything f...

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Recode Decode: Nicole Wong, former deputy CTO of the United States from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Former deputy CTO of the United States Nicole Wong talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher about the future of tech policy and why content moderation is more complicated than many people think. In this ep...

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Recode Decode: Buzzfeed founder Jonah Peretti from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

BuzzFeed is one of the most important and successful new media companies, tying together deeply reported impact journalism with content optimized for the digital age. Peter Kafka talks with founder...

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Episode 500: Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield on coronavirus, working from home, and Slack's redesign from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about how coronavirus changed everything for Slack and its customers, the sudden transition to "work from home" across the country, an...

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Tinder parent company Match Group prepares for battle with Facebook from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Mandy Ginsberg, the CEO of Match Group, talks with Recode's Kurt Wagner about how her company became dominant in online dating — it owns sites and apps like Match.com, Tinder and OKCupid — and how ...

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Recode Decode: 'Big Game' author Mark Leibovich from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Mark Leibovich, the chief national correspondent for The New York Times Magazine, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his new book, "Big Game: The NFL in Dangerous Times." In this episode:02:07 ...

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Recode Decode: LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Like rivals Facebook and Twitter, LinkedIn is no longer just a social network, it's a content platform, a recruiting tool, a resume builder and much, much more. In the Red Chair this week, CEO Jeff...

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Recode Decode: Gene Sperling from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Former Clinton and Obama economic advisor Gene Sperling talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his latest book, Economic Dignity, and how the COVID-19 pandemic is changing attitudes toward essentia...

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Gary Vaynerchuk: The coronavirus crisis will force businesses to be better from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

VaynerMedia CEO Gary Vaynerchuk talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about the impact of covid-19 on entrepreneurship, why he stopped investing in tech companies two years ago, and how the pandemic cou...

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Why do some in the tech community support universal basic income? They're 'terrified' about the future. from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Journalist Annie Lowrey talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about her new book, "Give People Money: How a Universal Basic Income Would End Poverty, Revolutionize Work, and Remake the World." Lowrey sa...

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Recode Decode: Slack chief product officer April Underwood from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

April Underwood, the chief product officer at workplace collaboration platform Slack, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about her career, diversity in Silicon Valley and the future of work. In this ...

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Recode Decode: Marc Andreessen, investor and entrepreneur from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Since founding Netscape more than 20 years ago, Marc Andreessen has been one of Silicon Valley's most influential figures. The entrepreneur-turned-venture capitalist talks with Kara Swisher about b...

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Recode Decode: Casey Newton and Louie Swisher from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Recode's Kara Swisher talks with her older son, Louie Swisher, and the Silicon Valley editor of the Verge, Casey Newton. Thank you to all of our listeners for 300 episodes. Here's to 300 more! In t...

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Deepak Chopra: "If this doesn't bring us together, then we deserve whatever happens" from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

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...

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Why Craigslist founder Craig Newmark is donating millions for journalism from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Craig Newmark, the founder of Craigslist and Craig Newmark Philanthropies, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his foundation's recent donation of $20 million to the CUNY Graduate School of Jour...

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Recode Decode: Sleeping Giants founder Matt Rivitz from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Matt Rivitz, the formerly anonymous founder of the popular Twitter account Sleeping Giants, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about how he accidentally started an international campaign against adve...

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Recode Decode: Ex-Googler Erica Baker from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Google salary spreadsheet creator Erica Baker talks diversity in tech with Kara Swisher, Lauren Goode debriefs drones and Ina Fried discusses car tech. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megap...

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Recode Decode: Jon Meacham from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Historian and bestselling author Jon Meacham talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his new podcast Hope Through History, which shows how Americans endured crises such as the Great Depression and t...

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Chamath Palihapitiya: "The investing landscape is done,” taxes will go up, and a two-week lockdown is inevitable from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Social Capital CEO Chamath Palihapitiya talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about how long it will take to recover from the coronavirus crisis, its impact on startups, and how the US government should...

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Box CEO Aaron Levie talks tech regulation and the future of jobs from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Aaron Levie, the CEO of enterprise security and file-sharing service Box, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about how businesses are simultaneously turning to multiple vendors — including Box and it...

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Recode Decode: U.S. Justice Department antitrust lawyer Makan Delrahim from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Makan Delrahim, the United States Assistant Attorney General for the Antitrust Division, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about the government's attempt to stop the merger of AT&T and Time Warner a...

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Recode Decode: Twitter legal boss Vijaya Gadde from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Twitter general counsel Vijaya Gadde talks about social media and the law, Walt Mossberg and Kara go back and forth on Apple's fall lineup and Kara gives the ABCs of aging in Silicon Valley. Learn ...

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Recode Decode: Maye Musk from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Model and dietitian Maye Musk (the mother of Tesla/SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, entrepreneur Kimbal Musk, and filmmaker Tosca Musk) talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about her recent memoir, A Woman Makes ...

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Ben Hubbard: How Saudi Arabia's Mohammed bin Salman became a feared leader and cyber criminal from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Ben Hubbard, the Beirut bureau chief for the New York Times, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his new book, MBS: The Rise to Power of Mohammed Bin Salman. Hubbard explains how he started writ...

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Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky (Live at Code 2018) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher and Dan Frommer at the 2018 Code Conference. Chesky talks about Airbnb’s expansion into “the experience economy," encouraging local hosts to...

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Recode Decode: 'Temp' author Louis Hyman from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Louis Hyman, an economic historian and professor at Cornell University, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher and Rani Molla about his new book, "Temp: How American Work, American Business, and the Amer...

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Recode Decode: Investor Chris Sacca from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Investor Chris Sacca shares his thoughts on who might get the Twitter CEO job, Walt Mossberg dives into the weird world of wireless carriers and Jason Del Rey explains the rise of "buy" buttons. Le...

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Recode Decode: Joe Walsh from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Former Republican Congressman Joe Walsh talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about why he tried to primary Donald Trump earlier this year, how the Republican Party became a "cult," and his recent book,...

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Andrew Yang: Sending everyone money makes even more sense in a crisis like coronavirus from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Former 2020 presidential candidate Andrew Yang talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about the growing popularity of government programs to send money directly to people affected by the coronavirus pand...

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Matt Cutts: Why more tech workers should come to D.C. from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Matt Cutts, the acting administrator of the U.S. Digital Service, talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher about how his team is trying to modernize government agencies and make services like Medicare and ...

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Recode Decode: Maker Faire founder Dale Dougherty and Make Magazine editor Mike Senese from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Two of the godfathers of the maker movement — Maker Faire founder Dale Dougherty and Make Magazine editor in chief Mike Senese — talk with Recode's Kara Swisher about how the movement has gone main...

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Recode Decode: "Million Dollar Listing" star Roh Habibi from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Kara talks with Roh Habibi, star of reality show "Million Dollar Listing San Francisco," and guest Amina Sow speaks about her experience as a black woman in tech. Learn more about your ad choices. ...

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Recode Decode: Scott Galloway from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

NYU professor and Pivot co-host Scott Galloway talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his new book, The Algebra of Happiness. In this episode: Galloway’s past books; why the new book is about happi...

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"After Truth": New HBO documentary explores the cost of "fake news" from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Recode's Kara Swisher talks with three of the brains behind the new HBO documentary After Truth: Disinformation and the Cost of Fake News: Director Andrew Rossi, who previously directed Page One: I...

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Psychologist Adam Grant: Your company’s culture isn’t unique from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Psychologist Adam Grant, the author of “Originals” and “Give and Take” and co-author with Sheryl Sandberg of “Option B,” talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher about how to work smarter and more successf...

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Recode Decode: Haystack founder Semil Shah from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Haystack founder and Lightspeed Ventures venture partner Semil Shah talks with Recode's Teddy Schleifer about breaking into the VC world and how the industry is changing. In this episode:03:45 - Ho...

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Recode Decode: Andreessen Horowitz GP Chris Dixon from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Kara Swisher talks with Andreessen Horowitz general partner and entrepreneur and investor Chris Dixon about the landscape of venture capital and virtual reality. Walt Mossberg shares his perspectiv...

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Recode Decode: Alexis Coe from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Political historian Alexis Coe talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about her latest book, You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington, which seeks to break the staid formula by which...

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Maggie Haberman: How coronavirus changes everything for President Trump from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Maggie Haberman, the White House correspondent for the New York Times, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about how the rest of the country has bypassed Trump's failure to lead on the coronavirus out...

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How Nat Geo uses Instagram to stay relevant from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

National Geographic executives Courteney Monroe, Rachel Webber and Susan Goldberg talk with Recode's Kara Swisher about how the 130-year-old media company is staying relevant in the digital age. Mo...

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Recode Decode: Senator Ron Wyden from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Ron Wyden, the senior U.S. Senator from Oregon, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about regulating the internet and protecting America's elections from both hackers and disinformation peddlers. In t...

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Recode Decode: Y Combinator's Sam Altman from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Kara Swisher talks with Y Combinator president and Reddit board member Sam Altman about the social news site and the challenges of entrepreneurship. Lauren Goode fields questions on the "Internet o...

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Recode Decode: Alex Kantrowitz from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

BuzzFeed News reporter Alex Kantrowitz talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his new book, Always Day One: How The Tech Titans Plan To Stay On Top Forever. He discusses how coronavirus may change ...

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Ron Klain: The coronavirus outbreak is just getting started in the US from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Epidemic co-host Ron Klain, who led the White House's ebola response under President Obama, talks to Recode's Kara Swisher about how the COVID-19 outbreak will strain America's healthcare system; h...

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How Silicon Valley is responding to the immigration crisis from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Charlotte and Dave Willner, creators of the hugely successful Facebook fundraising campaign called “Reunite an immigrant parent with their child,” talk with Recode’s Kara Swisher about how they rai...

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Recode Decode: 'High Growth Handbook' author Elad Gil from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Startup advisor and Color Genomics co-founder Elad Gil talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his new book, "High Growth Handbook: Scaling Startups from 10 to 10,000 People." In this episode:00:03:...

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Recode Decode: Elon Musk biographer Ashlee Vance from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Kara Swisher talks with journalist Ashlee Vance about his new book on Elon Musk. They discuss Musk's "Tony Stark" image, the future of Tesla and whether Musk is mellowing out. Also on the show: pho...

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Recode Decode: Ryan Murphy from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

TV producer Ryan Murphy — who created or produced shows like Glee, 911, and American Horror Story — talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his new Netflix miniseries, Hollywood, which blends real h...

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Dr. Lloyd Minor: Why we shouldn’t panic about coronavirus, and should start taking precision medicine seriously from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Dr. Lloyd Minor, the dean of Stanford University's School of Medicine, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about the novel coronavirus outbreak and his new book, "Discovering Precision Health: Predict...

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Microsoft President Brad Smith (Live at Code 2018) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Brad Smith, the president of Microsoft, talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher at the 2018 Code Conference. Smith reflects on what Microsoft learned from losing the U.S. Justice Department’s antitrust la...

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Recode Decode: Andrew Moore, dean of Carnegie Mellon's School of Computer Science from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Andrew Moore, the dean of the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about the future of tech education as fields like artificial intelligence an...

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Recode Decode: Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield, Apple Music from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Kara Swisher interviews Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield, Lauren Goode talks about Apple Music and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Recode Decode: Dave Asprey from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Bulletproof founder and former CEO Dave Asprey talks about the invention and current state of “biohacking," how his blog for “bulletproof executives” grew into a global lifestyle, and the most impo...

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Mark Lemley: Innovation in tech suffers when we focus on the "exit" from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Stanford Law School professor Mark Lemley talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about Silicon Valley's obsession with startups getting an "exit" — usually an acquisition by one of the tech giants — and ...

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Tom Peters, management expert and author of ‘The Excellence Dividend’ from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Author and management expert Tom Peters talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher about his new book, “The Excellence Dividend: Meeting the Tech Tide with Work That Wows and Jobs That Last.” Peters says art...

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Recode Decode: Glassdoor CEO Robert Hohman from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Robert Hohman, the co-founder and CEO of company-reviewing site Glassdoor, talks about how the company has evolved since its early days, when Hohman wanted to merge employer transparency with the g...

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Recode Decode: Nikole Hannah-Jones from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

New York Times Magazine reporter Nikole Hannah-Jones talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about how the coronavirus pandemic is magnifying inequality in the US, and our historical failure to treat esse...

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Aicha Evans and Jesse Levinson: Self-driving taxis will be here in 2021 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

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 p...

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Michael Barbaro, host of the New York Times podcast The Daily (Live) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Michael Barbaro, who hosts the hit podcast The Daily for the New York Times, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher in front of a live audience at the 92nd Street Y in New York City. Barbaro explains why...

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Recode Decode: Dr. Jen Gunter, OB/GYN from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Jen Gunter, an OB/GYN and pain medicine physician, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about how celebrity wellness brands have been overtaken by "medical conspiracy theories" and dangerous recommenda...

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Recode Decode: Sarah Kendzior from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Bestselling author and Gaslit Nation co-host Sarah Kendzior talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about her new book, Hiding in Plain Sight: The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America; wha...

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Dan Pfeiffer: The real problem isn't Trump — it's the other Republicans from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Pod Save America co-host and former Obama advisor Dan Pfeiffer talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his new book, Un-Trumping America: A Plan to Make America a Democracy Again, why Bernie Sanders...

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Stitch Fix CEO Katrina Lake (Live at Code 2018) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Katrina Lake, the CEO of apparel delivery company Stitch Fix, talks with Recode’s Jason Del Rey at the 2018 Code Conference. Lake explains why Stitch Fix went public in 2017 even though it was heal...

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Recode Decode: Uber Eats boss Jason Droege from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

If you enjoy Recode Decode, we think you'd also like the Eater Upsell. Here's a recent episode of the show: Jason Droege, the man in charge of Uber Eats, talks with Eater's Dan Geneen about how the...

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Recode Decode: Tim Ferriss from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Bestselling author, investor, and podcaster Tim Ferriss talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his advice for people coping with the coronavirus quarantine, which includes giving yourself slack for...

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Jason Calacanis: TikTok should be banned, Tim Cook doesn't have enough "chutzpah," and Uber will be fine from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

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' Achil...

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Linda McMahon, U.S. Small Business Administrator (Live at Code 2018) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Linda McMahon, the former pro wrestling executive who now leads the Trump administration’s Small Business Administration, talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher at the 2018 Code Conference. McMahon expla...

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Recode Decode: Sidecar co-founder Sunil Paul from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Sidecar co-founder Sunil Paul talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his popular guest column for Recode, “The scooter wars will be a bloodbath, and Uber will win.” He elaborates on why that is and...

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Recode Decode: Mark Cuban from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

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 ...

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Conor Dougherty: San Francisco’s housing crisis is coming for your city next from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

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 ...

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U.S. Senator Mark Warner (Live at Code 2018) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Mark Warner, the senior United States Senator from Virginia, talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher and Peter Kafka at the 2018 Code Conference. Warner talks about the competing Senate and House reports ...

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Recode Decode: Grab co-founder Hooi Ling Tan from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Hooi Ling Tan, the co-founder of southeast Asian ride-hailing company Grab, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher at the 2018 Rise conference in Hong Kong. Tan says Grab is opening up a platform for mor...

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Recode Decode: Mayor London Breed from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

San Francisco Mayor London Breed talks with Recode's Kara Swisher in this live interview recorded at Manny's in the Mission District. In this episode: How does Breed feel about being mayor?; her bi...

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Jorge Ramos: Bernie Sanders might have just lost Florida from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Univision anchor Jorge Ramos talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher about how much of the Latino vote President Trump might get in 2020, why Bernie Sanders’ comments about Fidel Castro might cost him dea...

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How tech can fix its diversity problem: The Code 2018 panel from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Recode’s Kara Swisher talks with three tech leaders about actual solutions for advancing diversity in the industry. Cowboy Ventures partner Aileen Lee, theBoardlist founder Sukhinder Singh Cassidy ...

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Recode Decode: 'General Magic' directors Sarah Kerruish and Matt Maude from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Sarah Kerruish and Matt Maude talk with Recode's Kara Swisher about their new documentary, "General Magic," which tells the story of a pioneering tech startup that tried and failed to invent a smar...

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Recode Decode: Jeffrey Katzenberg from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Quibi founder Jeffrey Katzenberg talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about the first week of the short-form video app — which was intended for on-the-go consumers, but still racked up 1.7 million down...

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Steven Levy: Mark Zuckerberg was blinded by his need to compete from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Technology journalist and Wired editor-at-large Steven Levy talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his latest book, Facebook: The Inside Story, for which he obtained years of direct access to CEO M...

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From Ben Franklin to Google: Jessica Weisberg traces the history of advice in ‘Asking for a Friend’ from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Writer and audio producer Jessica Weisberg talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher about her new book, “Asking for a Friend: Three Centuries of Advice on Life, Love, Money, and Other Burning Questions fro...

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Recode Decode: 'The Billionaire Raj' author James Crabtree from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Journalist James Crabtree talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his new book, "The Billionaire Raj: A Journey Through India's New Gilded Age." Crabtree says India's development of a super-rich bil...

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Recode Decode: Sarah Frier from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Bloomberg technology reporter Sarah Frier talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about her new book, No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram. Frier discusses how co-founders Mike Systrom and Danny Krieg...

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Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler: "The Future Is Faster Than You Think" from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Authors Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler talk with Recode's Kara Swisher about their latest book together, The Future Is Faster Than You Think: How Converging Technologies Are Disrupting Business,...

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Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi (Live at Code 2018) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Dara Khosrowshahi, the CEO of ride-hailing company Uber, talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher at the 2018 Code Conference. Khosrowshahi says he didn’t expect to be offered the CEO job and turned it dow...

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Recode Decode: WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Matt Mullenweg, the co-founder of WordPress, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about how the blogging platform has evolved in the 13 years since it launched, powering a huge number of websites that ...

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Recode Decode: Adam Grant from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Organizational psychologist Adam Grant, the author of "Originals" and host of the podcast "WorkLife," talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about the benefits of working from home, and how work will cha...

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Caleb Scharf: Living on Mars is complicated, actually from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Caleb Scharf, the director of Astrobiology at Columbia University, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about the under=discussed dangers humans would face in space and the rise of private space explor...

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Snap CEO Evan Spiegel (Live at Code 2018) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Evan Spiegel, the co-founder and CEO of Snapchat maker Snap, talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher at the 2018 Code Conference. Spiegel talks about why Snapchat underwent a controversial redesign, why i...

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Recode Decode: 'Valley of Genius' author Adam Fisher from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Writer Adam Fisher talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his new oral history, 'Valley of Genius: The Uncensored History of Silicon Valley.' Fisher interviewed some of tech's biggest names for the...

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Recode Decode: Niall Ferguson from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Historian Niall Ferguson, the author of bestselling books such as The Ascent of Money and The Square and the Tower, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his new PBS series, Networld, which explor...

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Corey Johnson: How to fix transportation in New York City from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Corey Johnson, the Speaker of the New York City Council and an candidate in the 2021 mayoral race, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his planned expansion of bike, bus, and pedestrian lanes ac...

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How to save American jobs in the age of disruption from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Former U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about "The Work Ahead," a new report, sponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations, on the 21st century American w...

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Recode Decode: Alibaba exec Joe Tsai (Live at Code 2018) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Joe Tsai, the executive vice chairman of Chinese commerce giant Alibaba, talks with Recode’s Jason Del Rey at the 2018 Code Conference. He says that Alibaba has not tried to do a big acquisition de...

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Recode Decode: Kevin Systrom from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Instagram co-founder and former CEO Kevin Systrom talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about the data analysis he has conducted and publicized about the global spread of coronavirus, and what it tells ...

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General Michael Hayden on Donald Trump’s ‘assault on intelligence’ from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Retired U.S. Air Force General Michael Hayden talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher about his new book, “The Assault on Intelligence: American National Security in the Age of Lies.” Hayden, who directed...

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Recode Decode: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about a litany of issues, including the Cambridge Analytica scandal and why Infowars and other conspiracy theorists, like Holocaust den...

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Recode Decode: David Plouffe from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Former Obama advisor David Plouffe — who since leaving the White House has worked with Uber, the Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative, and Acronym — talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his new book, A Cit...

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Larry Ingrassia: How Warby Parker, Dollar Shave Club and other disruptors became billion-dollar companies from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Journalist Larry Ingrassia talks with Recode’s Jason Del Rey about his new book, Billion Dollar Brand Club: How Dollar Shave Club, Warby Parker, and Other Disruptors Are Remaking What We Buy. Ingra...

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Congressman Ro Khanna: We need an 'internet bill of rights' from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

U.S. Representative Ro Khanna, D-Calif., talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his proposal for an "internet bill of rights" to protect consumers' privacy, security and ability to move or delete t...

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Recode Decode: How social media bots could tank your stock price from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Zignal Labs CEO Josh Ginsberg talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher about the “massive amounts of bot activity” that his media intelligence company has started detecting on social media. In everything f...

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Recode Decode: Stewart Butterfield from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about how coronavirus changed everything for Slack and its customers, the sudden transition to "work from home" across the country, an...

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Carol Leonnig and Phil Rucker: Trump doesn't care if he lies, and his supporters don't, either from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Washington Post reporters Carol Leonnig and Phil Rucker talk with Recode's Kara Swisher about their new book, A Very Stable Genius: Donald J. Trump's Testing of America. In it, they draw from more ...

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How to succeed in tech: Be lucky and ruthless from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Author Corey Pein talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher about his new book, “Live Work Work Work Die: A Journey Into the Savage Heart of Silicon Valley.” Pein moved to San Francisco to report the book, ...

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Recode Decode: Tinder parent company Match Group prepares for battle with Facebook from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Mandy Ginsberg, the CEO of Match Group, talks with Recode's Kurt Wagner about how her company became dominant in online dating — it owns sites and apps like Match.com, Tinder and OKCupid — and how ...

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Recode Decode: Gary Vaynerchuk from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

VaynerMedia CEO Gary Vaynerchuk talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about the impact of covid-19 on entrepreneurship, why he stopped investing in tech companies two years ago, and how the pandemic cou...

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Mark Surman: We have to fight for the future of the internet from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Mozilla Foundation executive director Mark Surman talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about why the internet needs a "public option," how Mozilla's browser Firefox is positioning itself for the future...

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John Carreyrou on lies and 'Bad Blood' at Theranos from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Wall Street Journal investigative reporter John Carreyrou talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his new book, "Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup." Carreyrou explains how Stan...

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Recode Decode: Why do some in the tech community support universal basic income? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Journalist Annie Lowrey talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about her new book, "Give People Money: How a Universal Basic Income Would End Poverty, Revolutionize Work, and Remake the World." Lowrey sa...

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Recode Decode: Deepak Chopra from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

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...

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Anna Wiener: The dark side of the tech industry's seductive culture from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Anna Wiener, a contributing writer for the New Yorker and the author of the new book Uncanny Valley: A Memoir, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about why she left an old industry — book publishing ...

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Recode Media: Robin Williams biographer Dave Itzkoff from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

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Recode Decode: Craigslist founder Craig Newmark from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Craig Newmark, the founder of Craigslist and Craig Newmark Philanthropies, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his foundation's recent donation of $20 million to the CUNY Graduate School of Jour...

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Recode Decode: Chamath Palihapitiya from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

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....

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Dave Eggers: What Democrats get wrong about Trump from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Writer and McSweeney's founder Dave Eggers talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his latest novel, The Captain and the Glory, why he chose to write a satirical novel about the Trump era, and what ...

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Michael Pollan: LSD and other psychedelics inspired some of Silicon Valley’s greatest inventions from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Journalist and author Michael Pollan talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher about his new book, “How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addic...

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Recode Decode: Box CEO Aaron Levie from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Aaron Levie, the CEO of enterprise security and file-sharing service Box, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about how businesses are simultaneously turning to multiple vendors — including Box and it...

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Recode Decode: Ben Hubbard from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Ben Hubbard, the Beirut bureau chief for the New York Times, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his new book, MBS: The Rise to Power of Mohammed Bin Salman. Hubbard explains how he started writ...

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Franklin Leonard: Greed can combat Hollywood’s bias from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

The Black List founder Franklin Leonard talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about how he accidentally created one of the most important lists in Hollywood and how he turned it into a real business for...

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John Doerr: How to run your company like Bill Gates or Bono from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

John Doerr, the chairman of the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher and Teddy Schleifer about his new book, "Measure What Matters: How Google, Bo...

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Recode Decode: Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky (Live at Code 2018) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher and Dan Frommer at the 2018 Code Conference. Chesky talks about Airbnb’s expansion into “the experience economy," encouraging local hosts to...

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Recode Decode: Andrew Yang from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Entrepreneur and Venture for America founder Andrew Yang talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his campaign to be the Democratic nominee in the 2020 presidential race. In this episode: Being "the ...

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Ezra Klein: Parties, not policy, are "Why We're Polarized" from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Vox.com co-founder Ezra Klein talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his new book, Why We're Polarized, the rise of systemic "zero sum" party politics, and how Klein himself has been polarizing in ...

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How 'Microtrends' affect everything, from marriage to Trump from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Former political strategist and pollster Mark Penn talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his new book, "Microtrends Squared: The New Small Forces Driving the Big Disruptions Today." He describes i...

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Recode Decode: Matt Cutts from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Matt Cutts, the acting administrator of the U.S. Digital Service, talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher about how his team is trying to modernize government agencies and make services like Medicare and ...

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Recode Decode: "After Truth" from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Recode's Kara Swisher talks with three of the brains behind the new HBO documentary After Truth: Disinformation and the Cost of Fake News: Director Andrew Rossi, who previously directed Page One: I...

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Annalee Newitz: Why real time travel would look a lot like Wikipedia from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Sci-fi novelist and science journalist Annalee Newitz talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about their new book, The Future of Another Timeline. Newitz, who was previously a founding editor of io9 and ...

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Tech execs are ‘weenies,’ Patagonia CEO Rose Marcario says from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Patagonia CEO Rose Marcario talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher about why her company is suing President Donald Trump, and why she is publicly insulting Silicon Valley executives, calling them “weenie...

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Recode Decode: Psychologist Adam Grant from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Psychologist Adam Grant, the author of “Originals” and “Give and Take” and co-author with Sheryl Sandberg of “Option B,” talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher about how to work smarter and more successf...

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Recode Decode: Maggie Haberman from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Maggie Haberman, the White House correspondent for the New York Times, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about how the rest of the country has bypassed Trump's failure to lead on the coronavirus out...

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Numa Perrier and Tiffany Tenille: In new Netflix film "Jezebel," the sex industry goes online from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Numa Perrier and Tiffany Tenille, the director and star of the new Netflix film Jezebel, talk with Recode's Kara Swisher about Perrier's real-life experience as an online sex worker in the 1990s an...

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Why 'Lean In: The Movie' didn't happen (Nell Scovell, author, 'Just the Funny Parts') from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Writer and comedian Nell Scovell talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about her new book, "Just the Funny Parts," in front of a live audience in San Francisco. Scovell, who has written on TV shows like...

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Recode Decode: How Nat Geo uses Instagram to stay relevant from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

National Geographic executives Courteney Monroe, Rachel Webber and Susan Goldberg talk with Recode's Kara Swisher about how the 130-year-old media company is staying relevant in the digital age. Mo...

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Recode Decode: Ron Klain from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Epidemic co-host Ron Klain, who led the White House's ebola response under President Obama, talks to Recode's Kara Swisher about how the COVID-19 outbreak will strain America's healthcare system; h...

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The L Word: Why the cast reunited for "Generation Q" from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

The L Word creator Ilene Chaiken and actors Jennifer Beals, Kate Moennig, and Leisha Hailey talk with Recode's Kara Swisher about their decision to reunite for a new series called The L Word: Gener...

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José Andrés on feeding Puerto Rico and the 'power of food' (Live) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Celebrity chef José Andrés talks with Recode's Kara Swisher in front of a live audience at South By Southwest in Austin, Texas. Andrés explains how his food NGO, World Central Kitchen, deployed its...

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Recode Decode: How Silicon Valley is responding to the immigration crisis from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Charlotte and Dave Willner, creators of the hugely successful Facebook fundraising campaign called “Reunite an immigrant parent with their child,” talk with Recode’s Kara Swisher about how they rai...

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Recode Decode: Dr. Lloyd Minor from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Dr. Lloyd Minor, the dean of Stanford University's School of Medicine, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about the novel coronavirus outbreak and his new book, "Discovering Precision Health: Predict...

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Kirsten Green: The four types of startups from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Forerunner Ventures founder and managing partner Kirsten Green talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about the thinking behind her investments in companies like Dollar Shave Club and Glossier; the messy...

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Ronan Farrow on ‘War on Peace,’ Harvey Weinstein and winning a Pulitzer from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Investigative journalist Ronan Farrow talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher about his new book, “War on Peace: The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence.” The book explores how the Trum...

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Best of: Shoshana Zuboff from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

In this best-of episode, originally published in February 2019, Kara Swisher talks with Harvard Business School professor emerita Shoshana Zuboff about her book The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: ...

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Recode Decode: Microsoft President Brad Smith (Live at Code 2018) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Brad Smith, the president of Microsoft, talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher at the 2018 Code Conference. Smith reflects on what Microsoft learned from losing the U.S. Justice Department’s antitrust la...

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Recode Decode: Mark Lemley from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Stanford Law School professor Mark Lemley talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about Silicon Valley's obsession with startups getting an "exit" — usually an acquisition by one of the tech giants — and ...

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Ben Silbermann: How Pinterest is trying to make its users feel better from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Pinterest CEO Ben Silbermann talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about deliberately engineering happiness into the site, expanding into commerce, and competing with larger social and commerce tech com...

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Sally Kohn on 'The Opposite of Hate,' Fox News and Joy Reid from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

CNN political commentator Sally Kohn talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about her new book, "The Opposite of Hate: A Field Guide to Repairing Our Humanity." Kohn's publicity tour for the book has bee...

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Best of: Esther Perel from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

In this best-of episode, originally published in March 2018, Kara Swisher talks to sex and relationship therapist Esther Perel, the host of the podcast Where Should We Begin? Perel discusses her th...

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Recode Decode: Tom Peters, management expert and author of ‘The Excellence Dividend’ from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Author and management expert Tom Peters talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher about his new book, “The Excellence Dividend: Meeting the Tech Tide with Work That Wows and Jobs That Last.” Peters says art...

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Recode Decode: Aicha Evans and Jesse Levinson from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

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 p...

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Jeanette Winterson remixes "Frankenstein" with AI, queer love, and cryogenics in "Frankissstein" from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Writer Jeanette Winterson talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher about her latest book, Frankissstein: A Love Story. Winterson discusses the intertwined histories of LGBT+ people, science fiction literat...

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New York Times tech columnist Farhad Manjoo explains the 'Frightful Five' from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Farhad Manjoo, a technology columnist for the New York Times, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher in front of a live audience at the University of California, Berkeley's journalism school. Manjoo expl...

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Recode Decode: Michael Barbaro, host of the New York Times podcast The Daily (Live) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Michael Barbaro, who hosts the hit podcast The Daily for the New York Times, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher in front of a live audience at the 92nd Street Y in New York City. Barbaro explains why...

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Recode Decode: Dan Pfeiffer from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Pod Save America co-host and former Obama advisor Dan Pfeiffer talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his new book, Un-Trumping America: A Plan to Make America a Democracy Again, why Bernie Sanders...

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Jason DeParle: How poverty and global migration intersect from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

New York Times reporter Jason DeParle talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his most recent book, A Good Provider Is One Who Leaves: One Family and Migration in the 21st Century. The book draws fr...

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Silicon Valley’s first disruptors (John Hennessy and Dave Patterson, winners, 2017 Turing Award) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Alphabet chairman John Hennessy and Google distinguished engineer Dave Patterson talk with Recode’s Kara Swisher about winning the 2017 Turing Award, a prestigious achievement in computer science. ...

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Recode Decode: Stitch Fix CEO Katrina Lake (Live at Code 2018) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Katrina Lake, the CEO of apparel delivery company Stitch Fix, talks with Recode’s Jason Del Rey at the 2018 Code Conference. Lake explains why Stitch Fix went public in 2017 even though it was heal...

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Recode Decode: Jason Calacanis from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

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' Achil...

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Megan Rapinoe: I'm not running for office because Democrats have standards from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Megan Rapinoe, the co-captain of the US Women's National Soccer Team, returns to Recode Decode to talk with Recode's Kara Swisher about pay equity, how things have changed since the team's boozy po...

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The dark side of dating apps (Joanna Coles, author, 'Love Rules') from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Joanna Coles, the chief content officer at Hearst, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about her new book, "Love Rules: How to Find a Real Relationship in a Digital World." Coles says dating apps can ...

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Recode Decode: Linda McMahon, U.S. Small Business Administrator (Live at Code 2018) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Linda McMahon, the former pro wrestling executive who now leads the Trump administration’s Small Business Administration, talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher at the 2018 Code Conference. McMahon expla...

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Recode Decode: Conor Dougherty from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

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 ...

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David Epstein: Why successful people don't do only one thing well from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Journalist and bestselling author David Epstein talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his most recent book, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World. In it, he argues that the world’s...

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The ‘invisible startups’ of LA Tech (Mark Suster, managing partner, Upfront Ventures) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Upfront Ventures Managing Partner Mark Suster talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher about leading the oldest and largest venture capital firm in Los Angeles. He explains why he rejects the term “Silicon...

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Recode Decode: U.S. Senator Mark Warner (Live at Code 2018) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Mark Warner, the senior United States Senator from Virginia, talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher and Peter Kafka at the 2018 Code Conference. Warner talks about the competing Senate and House reports ...

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Recode Decode: Jorge Ramos from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Univision anchor Jorge Ramos talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher about how much of the Latino vote President Trump might get in 2020, why Bernie Sanders’ comments about Fidel Castro might cost him dea...

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The Swisher family: What Kara’s relatives think about tech, privacy, and Fox News from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Kara Swisher convenes her brother, her sons, her mother and her fiancée to talk about their tech habits and how they get their news in a contentious election year. Topics include why her teenage so...

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BlackBerry CEO John Chen wants somebody to make a new BlackBerry from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

BlackBerry CEO John Chen talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher about how the once-pioneering mobile phone company has happily pivoted into a new business model, focusing on enterprise security and embed...

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Recode Decode: How tech can fix its diversity problem: The Code 2018 panel from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Recode’s Kara Swisher talks with three tech leaders about actual solutions for advancing diversity in the industry. Cowboy Ventures partner Aileen Lee, theBoardlist founder Sukhinder Singh Cassidy ...

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Recode Decode: Steven Levy from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Technology journalist and Wired editor-at-large Steven Levy talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his latest book, Facebook: The Inside Story, for which he obtained years of direct access to CEO M...

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Bruce Schneier: How insecure, unregulated tech is endangering the world from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Security researcher Bruce Schneier talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his recent book, Click Here to Kill Everybody. He also explains why the internet of things is a “dumpster fire," what regul...

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Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman: Silicon Valley has 'lost its purpose' from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about the phenomenon of techlash and why people are just now "waking up" to Silicon Valley's dark side. Stoppelman's company has feuded f...

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Recode Decode: Jessica Weisberg traces the history of advice in ‘Asking for a Friend’ from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Writer and audio producer Jessica Weisberg talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher about her new book, “Asking for a Friend: Three Centuries of Advice on Life, Love, Money, and Other Burning Questions fro...

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Recode Decode: Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Authors Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler talk with Recode's Kara Swisher about their latest book together, The Future Is Faster Than You Think: How Converging Technologies Are Disrupting Business,...

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Hillary Clinton advisor and "Dear Madam President" author Jennifer Palmieri from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Jennifer Palmieri, the communications director for Hillary Clinton's 2016 Presidential campaign, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about her new book, "Dear Madam President: An Open Letter to the Wo...

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Recode Decode: Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi (Live at Code 2018) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Dara Khosrowshahi, the CEO of ride-hailing company Uber, talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher at the 2018 Code Conference. Khosrowshahi says he didn’t expect to be offered the CEO job and turned it dow...

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Recode Decode: Caleb Scharf from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Caleb Scharf, the director of Astrobiology at Columbia University, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about the under=discussed dangers humans would face in space and the rise of private space explor...

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Best of 2019: Our favorite moments on Recode Decode this year from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Recode's Kara Swisher, her executive producer Erica Anderson, and her producer Eric Johnson discuss their favorite Recode Decode interviews from 2019 and look back at some of the year's big trends....

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Apple CEO Tim Cook: The uncut 'Revolution' interview from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Recode's Kara Swisher and MSNBC's Chris Hayes talk with Apple CEO Tim Cook on the second episode of "Revolution." The interview was held in front of a live audience the day after Apple's education-...

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Recode Decode: Snap CEO Evan Spiegel (Live at Code 2018) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Evan Spiegel, the co-founder and CEO of Snapchat maker Snap, talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher at the 2018 Code Conference. Spiegel talks about why Snapchat underwent a controversial redesign, why i...

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Recode Decode: Corey Johnson from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Corey Johnson, the Speaker of the New York City Council and an candidate in the 2021 mayoral race, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his planned expansion of bike, bus, and pedestrian lanes ac...

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Liz Plank: "A new vision for mindful masculinity" from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Journalist Liz Plank talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about her recent book, For the Love of Men: A New Vision for Mindful Masculinity. Featuring: Liz Plank (@feministabulous), author, For the Love...

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Google CEO Sundar Pichai and YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki (Live) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Recode's Kara Swisher and MSNBC's Ari Melber interview Google CEO Sundar Pichai and YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki in this episode of 'Revolution,' which first aired on MSNBC in January. Make sure to t...

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Recode Decode: How to save American jobs in the age of disruption from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Former U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about "The Work Ahead," a new report, sponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations, on the 21st century American w...

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Former White House advisor Valerie Jarrett: Trump won. What now? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Valerie Jarrett, a former senior advisor to President Obama, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher at South by Southwest 2018. Jarrett is now on the boards of two tech companies, but when she first got ...

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Recode Decode: General Michael Hayden on Donald Trump’s ‘assault on intelligence’ from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Retired U.S. Air Force General Michael Hayden talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher about his new book, “The Assault on Intelligence: American National Security in the Age of Lies.” Hayden, who directed...

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Recode Decode: Larry Ingrassia from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Journalist Larry Ingrassia talks with Recode’s Jason Del Rey about his new book, Billion Dollar Brand Club: How Dollar Shave Club, Warby Parker, and Other Disruptors Are Remaking What We Buy. Ingra...

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Maria Shriver and Christina Schwarzenegger discuss 'Take Your Pills' from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Maria Shriver, the former first lady of California, and her daughter Christina Schwarzenegger talk with Recode's Kara Swisher about "Take Your Pills," a new Netflix documentary they executive produ...

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Recode Decode: Congressman Ro Khanna from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

U.S. Representative Ro Khanna, D-Calif., talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his proposal for an "internet bill of rights" to protect consumers' privacy, security and ability to move or delete t...

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Recode Decode: Carol Leonnig and Phil Rucker from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Washington Post reporters Carol Leonnig and Phil Rucker talk with Recode's Kara Swisher about their new book, A Very Stable Genius: Donald J. Trump's Testing of America. In it, they draw from more ...

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Ben Mezrich: The Winklevoss twins’ second act as "Bitcoin Billionaires" from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Writer Ben Mezrich talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher about his latest book Bitcoin Billionaires and his previous books, including The Accidental Billionaires, which was adapted into the movie The So...

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Flying cars are the future of military transportation from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Christopher Kirchhoff, a former partner at DIUx, the Pentagon’s Silicon Valley office, talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher about how the Defense Department is trying to be smarter about technology. Ki...

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Recode Decode: How to succeed in tech: Be lucky and ruthless from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Author Corey Pein talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher about his new book, “Live Work Work Work Die: A Journey Into the Savage Heart of Silicon Valley.” Pein moved to San Francisco to report the book, ...

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Recode Decode: Mark Surman from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Mozilla Foundation executive director Mark Surman talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about why the internet needs a "public option," how Mozilla's browser Firefox is positioning itself for the future...

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Margaret O'Mara: Silicon Valley doesn't understand its own history from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Historian Margaret O'Mara talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about her latest book, The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America. She explains how the government catalyzed the digital revolut...

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What men and women need to know about working together from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Journalist and writer Joanne Lipman talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about her new book, "That's What She Said: What Men Need to Know (and Women Need to Tell Them) About Working Together." Lipman, ...

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Recode Decode: John Carreyrou from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Wall Street Journal investigative reporter John Carreyrou talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his new book, "Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup." Carreyrou explains how Stan...

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Recode Decode: Anna Wiener from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Anna Wiener, a contributing writer for the New Yorker and the author of the new book Uncanny Valley: A Memoir, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about why she left an old industry — book publishing ...

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Neal Katyal: Why Donald Trump will be removed from office from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Neal Katyal, a partner at the law firm Hogan Lovells, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his new book Impeach: The Case against Donald Trump. Katyal explains why he believes the “evidence will ...

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Therapist Esther Perel: Tinder and Instagram are 'crippling' our relationships from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Sex and relationship therapist Esther Perel, the host of the podcast "Where Should We Begin?", talks with Recode's Kara Swisher at South by Southwest 2018 in Austin, Texas. Perel's new book "The St...

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Recode Decode: Michael Pollan from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Journalist and author Michael Pollan talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher about his new book, “How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addic...

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Recode Decode: Dave Eggers from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Writer and McSweeney's founder Dave Eggers talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his latest novel, The Captain and the Glory, why he chose to write a satirical novel about the Trump era, and what ...

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Nadav Goshen: What 3-D printing needs before it's ready for mainstream consumers from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

MakerBot CEO Nadav Goshen talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about the company's Method X industrial printer, which Goshen says will foster innovation by making it easier to manufacture real products...

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Anthony 'The Mooch' Scaramucci: Trump has secret admirers in Silicon Valley from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his infamous 11-day stint in the Trump administration, his recently announced book deal and why ...

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Recode Decode: John Doerr from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

John Doerr, the chairman of the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher and Teddy Schleifer about his new book, "Measure What Matters: How Google, Bo...

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Recode Decode: Franklin Leonard from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

The Black List founder Franklin Leonard talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about how he accidentally created one of the most important lists in Hollywood and how he turned it into a real business for...

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Andrea Matwyshyn: We already have the internet of things. The "internet of bodies" is next. from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Andrea Matwyshyn, the associate dean of innovation at Penn State Law, talks with Kara Swisher's executive producer, Erica Anderson, about the integration of technology with biology, a trend Matwysh...

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CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on sex, #MeToo and North Korea (Live from SXSW) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

CNN Chief International Correspondent Christiane Amanpour talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about her new series, "Sex and Love Around the World." Speaking in front of a live audience at South By So...

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Recode Decode: How 'Microtrends' affect everything, from marriage to Trump from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Former political strategist and pollster Mark Penn talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his new book, "Microtrends Squared: The New Small Forces Driving the Big Disruptions Today." He describes i...

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Recode Decode: Ezra Klein from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Vox.com co-founder Ezra Klein talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his new book, Why We're Polarized, the rise of systemic "zero sum" party politics, and how Klein himself has been polarizing in ...

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Deborah Rutter: How tech has changed performing arts — for the better from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Deborah Rutter, the president of Washington, DC's John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about the Center's new free immersive learning spaces, REACH, whic...

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Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes: Why guaranteed income makes sense from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Chris Hughes, the co-founder of Facebook and former owner of The New Republic, talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher about his new book, “Fair Shot: Rethinking Inequality and How We Earn.” In it, Hughes...

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Recode Decode: Patagonia CEO Rose Marcario from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Patagonia CEO Rose Marcario talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher about why her company is suing President Donald Trump, and why she is publicly insulting Silicon Valley executives, calling them “weenie...

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Recode Decode: Annalee Newitz from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Sci-fi novelist and science journalist Annalee Newitz talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about their new book, The Future of Another Timeline. Newitz, who was previously a founding editor of io9 and ...

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Rick Smith: The ethics of designing body cameras and other police tech from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Axon CEO Rick Smith talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his company's best known product (the Taser), how it's thinking about the ethical implications of new products aimed at police, and the co...

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Sen. Chuck Schumer on Amazon, net neutrality and the 2018 midterms from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Chuck Schumer, the senior U.S. Senator from New York, talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher and Democratic strategist Hilary Rosen about a range of tech-related issues, including immigration, net neutra...

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Recode Decode: Nell Scovell, author, 'Just the Funny Parts' from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Writer and comedian Nell Scovell talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about her new book, "Just the Funny Parts," in front of a live audience in San Francisco. Scovell, who has written on TV shows like...

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Recode Decode: Numa Perrier and Tiffany Tenille from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Numa Perrier and Tiffany Tenille, the director and star of the new Netflix film Jezebel, talk with Recode's Kara Swisher about Perrier's real-life experience as an online sex worker in the 1990s an...

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Barry Friedman: Is technology making police better — or worse? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Barry Friedman, the director of The Policing Project at New York University's School of Law, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about making police more accountable, the ethics of emerging technologi...

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Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg on techlash and #MeToo (Live) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher at the 2018 Lesbians Who Tech Summit in San Francisco, Calif. Sandberg talks about how Facebook is responding to reports of Russian ele...

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Recode Decode: José Andrés on feeding Puerto Rico and the 'power of food' (Live) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Celebrity chef José Andrés talks with Recode's Kara Swisher in front of a live audience at South By Southwest in Austin, Texas. Andrés explains how his food NGO, World Central Kitchen, deployed its...

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Recode Decode: The L Word from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

The L Word creator Ilene Chaiken and actors Jennifer Beals, Kate Moennig, and Leisha Hailey talk with Recode's Kara Swisher about their decision to reunite for a new series called The L Word: Gener...

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Innovation in the midwest: Entrepreneurship outside of Silicon Valley from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Recode's Kara Swisher and her executive producer Erica Anderson talk with a panel of entrepreneurs in Valparaiso, Indiana: Sarah Hallberg, the Medical Director of Virta Health; Eric Christopher, th...

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Is 'Uber meets Harvard' the future of learning? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

GLG President and CEO Alexander Saint-Amand talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about running a learning platform for investors and business professionals. Saint-Amand describes the company as "Uber m...

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Recode Decode: Sally Kohn from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

CNN political commentator Sally Kohn talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about her new book, "The Opposite of Hate: A Field Guide to Repairing Our Humanity." Kohn's publicity tour for the book has bee...

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Recode Decode: Kirsten Green from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Forerunner Ventures founder and managing partner Kirsten Green talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about the thinking behind her investments in companies like Dollar Shave Club and Glossier; the messy...

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Why Katie Couric left Yahoo from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Journalist Katie Couric and Recode’s Kara Swisher talk about their careers in journalism, as well as social media, job automation, tech addiction and the mass shooting in Parkland, Fla. Couric, who...

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Recode Decode: New York Times tech columnist Farhad Manjoo explains the 'Frightful Five' from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Farhad Manjoo, a technology columnist for the New York Times, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher in front of a live audience at the University of California, Berkeley's journalism school. Manjoo expl...

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Recode Decode: Ben Silbermann from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Pinterest CEO Ben Silbermann talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about deliberately engineering happiness into the site, expanding into commerce, and competing with larger social and commerce tech com...

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Can an alt-weekly newspaper survive in 2018? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Entrepreneur and investor Mark Ein talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher about his recent purchase of the Washington City Paper, an alternative weekly newspaper in Washington, D.C. Ein says he’s been in...

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Recode Decode: John Hennessy and Dave Patterson, winners, 2017 Turing Award from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Alphabet chairman John Hennessy and Google distinguished engineer Dave Patterson talk with Recode’s Kara Swisher about winning the 2017 Turing Award, a prestigious achievement in computer science. ...

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Recode Decode: Jeanette Winterson from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Writer Jeanette Winterson talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher about her latest book, Frankissstein: A Love Story. Winterson discusses the intertwined histories of LGBT+ people, science fiction literat...

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SEC Commissioner Robert Jackson: CEOs are not royalty, and dual class stock should not last forever from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Robert Jackson, one of the five commissioners on the Securities and Exchange Commission, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about how the SEC works and the problem with perpetual dual-class stock at ...

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What’s missing from the startup ecosystem? (Jennifer Fonstad, co-founder, Aspect Ventures) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Aspect Ventures co-founder Jennifer Fonstad talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher about how venture capital works in 2018, when Silicon Valley entrepreneurs have access to more money from more sources t...

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Recode Decode: Joanna Coles, author, 'Love Rules' from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Joanna Coles, the chief content officer at Hearst, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about her new book, "Love Rules: How to Find a Real Relationship in a Digital World." Coles says dating apps can ...

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Recode Decode: Jason DeParle from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

New York Times reporter Jason DeParle talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his most recent book, A Good Provider Is One Who Leaves: One Family and Migration in the 21st Century. The book draws fr...

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Alexis Ohanian: All parents, including dads, should have six months of paid family leave from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Reddit co-founder and Initialized Capital managing partner Alexis Ohanian talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about how he became a "dadvocate" for paid paternity leave. Ohanian explains how the medic...

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Why cryptocurrencies matter (Sarah Tavel, partner, Benchmark) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Benchmark partner Sarah Tavel talks with Recode's Kara Swisher and Teddy Schleifer about her career in tech companies and venture capital. Her resume includes stints at Pinterest, Bessemer Venture ...

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Recode Decode: Mark Suster, managing partner, Upfront Ventures from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Upfront Ventures Managing Partner Mark Suster talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher about leading the oldest and largest venture capital firm in Los Angeles. He explains why he rejects the term “Silicon...

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Recode Decode: Megan Rapinoe from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

On the 400th episode of Recode Decode, Megan Rapinoe, the co-captain of the US Women's National Soccer Team, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher. This live conversation was recorded at the Mobile Mark...

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Ted Baxter: A massive stroke changed my life "for the better" from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Writer and health advocate Ted Baxter talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his book, Relentless: How a Massive Stroke Changed My Life for the Better. Baxter, a former managing director at the hed...

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HuffPost editor in chief Lydia Polgreen (Live at Code Media 2018) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Lydia Polgreen, the editor in chief of HuffPost — the website formerly known as The Huffington Post — talks with Recode's Kara Swisher and Peter Kafka at the 2018 Code Media conference in Huntingto...

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Recode Decode: BlackBerry CEO John Chen from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

BlackBerry CEO John Chen talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher about how the once-pioneering mobile phone company has happily pivoted into a new business model, focusing on enterprise security and embed...

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Recode Decode: David Epstein from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Journalist and bestselling author David Epstein talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his most recent book, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World. In it, he argues that the world’s...

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YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki (Live at Code Media 2018) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki talks with Recode's Kara Swisher at the 2018 Code Media conference in Huntington Beach, Calif. She explains why YouTube opted not to ban one of its stars, Logan Paul, des...

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Recode Decode: Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman: Silicon Valley has 'lost its purpose' from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about the phenomenon of techlash and why people are just now "waking up" to Silicon Valley's dark side. Stoppelman's company has feuded f...

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Recode Decode: The Swisher family from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Kara Swisher convenes her brother, her sons, her mother and her fiancée to talk about their tech habits and how they get their news in a contentious election year. Topics include why her teenage so...

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Stephanie Ruhle: Don't blame Mark Zuckerberg for inequality from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

MSNBC anchor Stephanie Ruhle talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about her new podcast Modern Ruhles, the Trump voters who get overlooked by the media, and why Wall Streeters afraid of Elizabeth Warre...

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How VR can change your brain (Jeremy Bailenson, author, 'Experience on Demand') from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Jeremy Bailenson, the director of Stanford University's Virtual Human Interaction Lab, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his new book, "Experience on Demand: What Virtual Reality Is, How It Wo...

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Recode Decode: Hillary Clinton advisor and "Dear Madam President" author Jennifer Palmieri from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Jennifer Palmieri, the communications director for Hillary Clinton's 2016 Presidential campaign, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about her new book, "Dear Madam President: An Open Letter to the Wo...

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Recode Decode: Bruce Schneier from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Security researcher Bruce Schneier talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his recent book, Click Here to Kill Everybody. He also explains why the internet of things is a “dumpster fire," what regul...

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The Google walkout organizers, one year later from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

In this special episode of Recode Decode, Kara Swisher checks in with some of the organizers of the Google walkout, who came on her show in November 2018 after leading a 20,000-worker protest. Late...

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What Abraham Lincoln and Rachel Carson can teach us about leadership from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Harvard Business School historian Nancy Koehn talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher about her new book, “Forged In Crisis: The Power of Courageous Leadership in Turbulent Times.” In it, Koehn chronicles...

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Recode Decode: Apple CEO Tim Cook from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Recode's Kara Swisher and MSNBC's Chris Hayes talk with Apple CEO Tim Cook on the second episode of "Revolution." The interview was held in front of a live audience the day after Apple's education-...

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Edward Snowden: I don't want you to trust me from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about why he leaked highly classified information in 2013, why that doesn't make him a "traitor," and his new book, Permanent Recor...

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How to fix Silicon Valley's 'Brotopia' from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Bloomberg Technology executive producer Emily Chang talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher about her new book, “Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys’ Club of Silicon Valley.” Chang says the idea for the book o...

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Recode Decode: Google CEO Sundar Pichai and YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki (Live) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Recode's Kara Swisher and MSNBC's Ari Melber interview Google CEO Sundar Pichai and YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki in this episode of 'Revolution,' which first aired on MSNBC in January. Make sure to t...

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Best of Recode Decode: 2019 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Recode's Kara Swisher, her executive producer Erica Anderson, and her producer Eric Johnson discuss their favorite Recode Decode interviews from 2019 and look back at some of the year's big trends....

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Ben Horowitz: Startups can learn a lot from samurai from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Andreessen Horowitz co-founder Ben Horowitz talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about the state of venture capital, diversity in tech, and his new book, What You Do Is Who You Are: How to Create Your ...

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Tech is now a weapon for propaganda (Dipayan Ghosh and Ben Scott, co-authors, ‘Digital Deceit’) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

New America fellow Dipayan Ghosh and senior advisor Ben Scott talk with Recode’s Kara Swisher about their new policy paper, “Digital Deceit: The Technologies Behind Precision Propaganda on the Inte...

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Recode Decode: Former White House advisor Valerie Jarrett from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Valerie Jarrett, a former senior advisor to President Obama, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher at South by Southwest 2018. Jarrett is now on the boards of two tech companies, but when she first got ...

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Recode Decode: Liz Plank from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Journalist Liz Plank talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about her recent book, For the Love of Men: A New Vision for Mindful Masculinity. Featuring: Liz Plank (@feministabulous), author, For the Love...

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Bill Kristol: This is the "nightmare scenario" for 2024 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Conservative analyst Bill Kristol talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about the impeachment effort against President Trump, how politics has entered a "crisis of truth" in the era of Fox News and soci...

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Social media can't surprise us anymore (Chuck Todd, moderator, 'Meet the Press') from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

NBC News Political Director Chuck Todd talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about how he's evolving what it means to be the host of the longest-running series in TV history, "Meet the Press." Todd disc...

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Recode Decode: Maria Shriver and Christina Schwarzenegger discuss 'Take Your Pills' from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Maria Shriver, the former first lady of California, and her daughter Christina Schwarzenegger talk with Recode's Kara Swisher about "Take Your Pills," a new Netflix documentary they executive produ...

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Gary Cohn: Tech giants should be regulated as "data companies" from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Gary Cohn, the former Director of the National Economic Council and former chief economic adviser to President Trump, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about what he's done since leaving the Trump a...

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What's funny about Trump? (Alexandra Petri, columnist, the Washington Post) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Alexandra Petri, who writes the Compost blog for The Washington Post, talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher and Chorus CEO Dick Costolo about making fun of politics. Petri says some politicans have a se...

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Recode Decode: Flying cars are the future of military transportation from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Christopher Kirchhoff, a former partner at DIUx, the Pentagon’s Silicon Valley office, talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher about how the Defense Department is trying to be smarter about technology. Ki...

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Politics and tech onstage with "What the Constitution Means to Me" and "Right to Be Forgotten" from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Recode's Kara Swisher talks to the creators of two new plays that intersect with tech issues: Heidi Schreck, the former star and playwright of What the Constitution Means to Me, and the writer and ...

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How to fix the problems caused by tech (Andrew Keen, author, 'How to Fix the Future') from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

"How to Fix the Future" author Andrew Keen talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his new book, which examines reasonable solutions to the social and political disruptions created by the digital re...

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Recode Decode: What men and women need to know about working together from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Journalist and writer Joanne Lipman talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about her new book, "That's What She Said: What Men Need to Know (and Women Need to Tell Them) About Working Together." Lipman, ...

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Recode Decode: Ben Mezrich from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Writer Ben Mezrich talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher about his latest book Bitcoin Billionaires and his previous books, including The Accidental Billionaires, which was adapted into the movie The So...

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Ronan Farrow: Here's how predators like Harvey Weinstein covered their tracks from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ronan Farrow talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher about his new book, Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators, which details the extreme len...

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Where’s the money in online comedy? (Gregg Spiridellis, CEO, JibJab) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

JibJab CEO Gregg Spiridellis talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher and Chorus CEO Dick Costolo about how the company has adapted to the ever-changing internet over the past two decades. JibJab was on th...

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Recode Decode: Therapist Esther Perel from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Sex and relationship therapist Esther Perel, the host of the podcast "Where Should We Begin?", talks with Recode's Kara Swisher at South by Southwest 2018 in Austin, Texas. Perel's new book "The St...

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Recode Decode: Margaret O'Mara from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Historian Margaret O'Mara talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about her latest book, The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America. She explains how the government catalyzed the digital revolut...

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Can A.I. teach you to write better? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

If you like Recode Decode, we think you'll also like our newest podcast, Reset. Here's today's episode. Students across the country are graded by artificial intelligence. But does an algorithm real...

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Sex, the internet and the 1990s (David Friend, author, ‘The Naughty Nineties’) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

David Friend, Vanity Fair’s editor of creative development, talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher about his new book, “The Naughty Nineties: The Triumph of the American Libido.” Much of today’s social a...

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Recode Decode: Anthony 'The Mooch' Scaramucci from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his infamous 11-day stint in the Trump administration, his recently announced book deal and why ...

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Recode Decode: Neal Katyal from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Neal Katyal, a partner at the law firm Hogan Lovells, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his new book Impeach: The Case against Donald Trump. Katyal explains why he believes the “evidence will ...

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Ken Burns on "Country Music," digital documentaries, and why "there's no them, there's only us" from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Filmmaker Ken Burns talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his latest documentary series "Country Music," in which he explores the history of the genre, its place in the larger American musical lan...

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I quit Google to be a comedian (Sarah Cooper, author, "100 Tricks To Appear Smart in Meetings”) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Comedian Sarah Cooper talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher and Chorus CEO Dick Costolo about why she left a career in the tech industry to become a stand-up comic. Cooper has made tech a central part o...

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Recode Decode: CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on sex, #MeToo and North Korea (Live from SXSW) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

CNN Chief International Correspondent Christiane Amanpour talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about her new series, "Sex and Love Around the World." Speaking in front of a live audience at South By So...

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Recode Decode: Nadav Goshen from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

MakerBot CEO Nadav Goshen talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about the company's Method X industrial printer, which Goshen says will foster innovation by making it easier to manufacture real products...

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The inside story of the Cambridge Analytica scandal from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Cambridge Analytica’s former business development director Brittany Kaiser talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher about her new book TARGETED: The Cambridge Analytica Whistleblower's Inside Story of How ...

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How to fix your company's culture (Patty McCord, author, "Powerful") from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Patty McCord, the former chief talent officer at Netflix and author of that company's famous "culture deck," talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about her new book, "Powerful: Building a Culture of Fr...

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Recode Decode: Sen. Chuck Schumer from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Chuck Schumer, the senior U.S. Senator from New York, talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher and Democratic strategist Hilary Rosen about a range of tech-related issues, including immigration, net neutra...

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Recode Decode: Andrea Matwyshyn from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Andrea Matwyshyn, the associate dean of innovation at Penn State Law, talks with Kara Swisher's executive producer, Erica Anderson, about the integration of technology with biology, a trend Matwysh...

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Rosetta Stone President Matt Hulett on how to learn new languages and not forget them from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Matt Hulett, the president of education company Rosetta Stone, talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher about the company’s pivot away from language-learning CDs and into a more advanced and “approachable”...

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Silicon Valley can't take a joke (Dick Costolo, CEO, Chorus) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Chorus CEO Dick Costolo, the former CEO of Twitter, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about why he loves comedy and why his peers in the tech community are so infrequently "in on the joke." Before h...

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Recode Decode: Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg on techlash and #MeToo (Live) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher at the 2018 Lesbians Who Tech Summit in San Francisco, Calif. Sandberg talks about how Facebook is responding to reports of Russian ele...

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Recode Decode: Deborah Rutter from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Deborah Rutter, the president of Washington, DC's John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about the Center's new free immersive learning spaces, REACH, whic...

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Disrupting real estate with OpenDoor CEO Eric Wu / Evite CEO Victor Cho on turning around a Web 1.0 company from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Recode's Kara Swisher interviews two CEOs in this double-feature episode of Recode Decode: First, she speaks with OpenDoor CEO Eric Wu about how technology is encroaching on the real estate industr...

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Kara Swisher visits the Longform Podcast (Live) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

The host of the Longform Podcast, Evan Ratliff, interviews Recode’s Kara Swisher in front of a live audience in San Francisco about how she got started in journalism and how she does her job today....

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Recode Decode: Is 'Uber meets Harvard' the future of learning? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

GLG President and CEO Alexander Saint-Amand talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about running a learning platform for investors and business professionals. Saint-Amand describes the company as "Uber m...

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Recode Decode: Rick Smith from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Axon CEO Rick Smith talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his company's best known product (the Taser), how it's thinking about the ethical implications of new products aimed at police, and the co...

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"Antisocial" author Andrew Marantz on how the far right hijacked the internet from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Andrew Marantz, a staff writer at the New Yorker, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his new book, Antisocial: Online Extremists, Techno‑Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation...

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Why Grindr started a magazine (Zach Stafford and Trish Bendix, editors, Into) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Recode's Kara Swisher and The Verge's Casey Newton talk with Zach Stafford and Trish Bendix, the editor in chief and managing editor of Into — a queer lifestyle magazine published by the dating app...

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Recode Decode: Why Katie Couric left Yahoo from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Journalist Katie Couric and Recode’s Kara Swisher talk about their careers in journalism, as well as social media, job automation, tech addiction and the mass shooting in Parkland, Fla. Couric, who...

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Recode Decode: Barry Friedman from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Barry Friedman, the director of The Policing Project at New York University's School of Law, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about making police more accountable, the ethics of emerging technologi...

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Former HP CEO Carly Fiorina: Trump is doing lasting damage to the Republican Party from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Carly Fiorina, the former CEO of HP who ran for the Republican nomination for president in 2016, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about campaigning against Donald Trump, her friendship with Apple c...

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Uber's Tony West and Eric Holder on exposing wrongdoing (Live) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Recode's Kara Swisher talks with former attorney general Eric Holder, who led an investigation into Uber's management earlier this year, and the company's new Chief Legal Officer, Tony West. They d...

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Recode Decode: Can an alt-weekly newspaper survive in 2018? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Entrepreneur and investor Mark Ein talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher about his recent purchase of the Washington City Paper, an alternative weekly newspaper in Washington, D.C. Ein says he’s been in...

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Recode Decode: Innovation in the midwest from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Recode's Kara Swisher and her executive producer Erica Anderson talk with a panel of entrepreneurs in Valparaiso, Indiana: Sarah Hallberg, the Medical Director of Virta Health; Eric Christopher, th...

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FEC Chair Ellen Weintraub on political paralysis, election security, and Trump's "voter fraud" fantasies from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Federal Election Commission Chair Ellen Weintraub talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about how the FEC works, how it tries to defend elections from foreign influence, and why the Commission is curren...

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Sports columnist Christine Brennan previews her 18th consecutive Olympics from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Christine Brennan, the sports columnist for USA Today, talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher about the February 2018 Winter Olympic Games in PyeongChang, South Korea, which will be Brenann’s 18th consec...

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Recode Decode: Jennifer Fonstad, co-founder, Aspect Ventures from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Aspect Ventures co-founder Jennifer Fonstad talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher about how venture capital works in 2018, when Silicon Valley entrepreneurs have access to more money from more sources t...

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Obama's cybersecurity chief Michael Daniel: Facebook is an “intelligence officer’s wet dream” from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Barack Obama's former cybersecurity coordinator Michael Daniel, now the CEO of the nonprofit Cyber Threat Alliance, talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher about the state of US cybersecurity heading into...

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Bitcoin is just getting started (Megan Quinn, general partner, Spark Capital) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Spark Capital General Partner Megan Quinn talks with Recode's Kara Swisher and The Verge's Casey Newton about the evolving balance between venture capitalists and entrepreneurs. Quinn, an investor ...

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Recode Decode: Sarah Tavel, partner, Benchmark from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Benchmark partner Sarah Tavel talks with Recode's Kara Swisher and Teddy Schleifer about her career in tech companies and venture capital. Her resume includes stints at Pinterest, Bessemer Venture ...

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FTC Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter on Facebook's $5 billion fine, YouTube's COPPA violations, and the dangers of under-enforcement from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Rebecca Kelly Slaughter, one of the FTC's two Democratic commissioners, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about the state of antitrust problems in the tech industry, the history of pushback against ...

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Silicon Valley is threatening democracy (Noam Cohen, author, 'The Know-It-Alls') from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Author and former New York Times columnist Noam Cohen talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his new book, "The Know-It-Alls: The Rise of Silicon Valley as a Political Powerhouse and Social Wreckin...

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Recode Decode: HuffPost editor in chief Lydia Polgreen (Live at Code Media 2018) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Lydia Polgreen, the editor in chief of HuffPost — the website formerly known as The Huffington Post — talks with Recode's Kara Swisher and Peter Kafka at the 2018 Code Media conference in Huntingto...

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Recode Decode: SEC Commissioner Robert Jackson from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Robert Jackson, one of the five commissioners on the Securities and Exchange Commission, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about how the SEC works and the problem with perpetual dual-class stock at ...

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Senator Mark Warner on the Ukraine whistleblower, the end of anonymity, and the ongoing Russia investigation from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Mark Warner, the senior US Senator from Virginia, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about several interconnected policy issues affecting the 2020 elections, including the security of voter registrie...

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The future of the audio industry (Andrew Mason, CEO, Descript) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Andrew Mason, the founder and former CEO of Groupon, talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher and The Verge’s Casey Newton about his latest startup, Descript. The company bills itself as a “word processor ...

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Recode Decode: YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki (Live at Code Media 2018) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki talks with Recode's Kara Swisher at the 2018 Code Media conference in Huntington Beach, Calif. She explains why YouTube opted not to ban one of its stars, Logan Paul, des...

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Recode Decode: Alexis Ohanian from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Reddit co-founder and Initialized Capital managing partner Alexis Ohanian talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about how he became a "dadvocate" for paid paternity leave. Ohanian explains how the medic...

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Whistleblowers have never been more important — or more at risk, says Whistleblower Aid CEO John Tye from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

John Napier Tye, the founder and CEO of Whistleblower Aid, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about how his non-profit law firm helps people seeking to legally expose corruption in the government and...

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Kara Swisher visits Pod Save America (Live) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Recode's Kara Swisher talks with Crooked Media's Jon Lovett, Jon Favreau, Tommy Vietor and Dan Pfeiffer, appearing as a guest on a live taping of their podcast, Pod Save America, in Oakland, Califo...

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Recode Decode: Jeremy Bailenson, author, 'Experience on Demand' from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Jeremy Bailenson, the director of Stanford University's Virtual Human Interaction Lab, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his new book, "Experience on Demand: What Virtual Reality Is, How It Wo...

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Recode Decode: Ted Baxter from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Writer and health advocate Ted Baxter talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his book, Relentless: How a Massive Stroke Changed My Life for the Better. Baxter, a former managing director at the hed...

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Hermitage Capital CEO Bill Browder on Putin's crimes and DoNotPay CEO Josh Browder on robot lawyers for consumers from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Recode's Kara Swisher talks with Hermitage Capital CEO Bill Browder, a hedge fund manager turned human rights activist and his son, Josh Browder, whose company DoNotPay helps consumers fight everyt...

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Elon Musk was once like you (Daniel Gross, partner, Y Combinator) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Y Combinator Partner Daniel Gross talks with Recode's Kara Swisher and The Verge's Casey Newton about why he returned to the startup incubator that gave him his start in Silicon Valley. Gross co-fo...

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Recode Decode: What Abraham Lincoln and Rachel Carson can teach us about leadership from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Harvard Business School historian Nancy Koehn talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher about her new book, “Forged In Crisis: The Power of Courageous Leadership in Turbulent Times.” In it, Koehn chronicles...

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Recode Decode: Stephanie Ruhle from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

MSNBC anchor Stephanie Ruhle talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about her new podcast Modern Ruhles, the Trump voters who get overlooked by the media, and why Wall Streeters afraid of Elizabeth Warre...

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"She Said" authors Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey on Harvey Weinstein's downfall and the unanswered questions of the #MeToo movement from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

New York Times reporters Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey talk with Recode's Kara Swisher about their new book, She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement. They talk a...

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The amazing stories of Silicon Valley's 'Troublemakers' (Leslie Berlin, historian, Stanford University) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Leslie Berlin, the historian who oversees Stanford University's Silicon Valley Archives, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about her new book, "Troublemakers: How a Generation of Silicon Valley Upst...

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Recode Decode: How to fix Silicon Valley's 'Brotopia' from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Bloomberg Technology executive producer Emily Chang talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher about her new book, “Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys’ Club of Silicon Valley.” Chang says the idea for the book o...

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Recode Decode: The Google walkout organizers, one year later from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

In this special episode of Recode Decode, Kara Swisher checks in with some of the organizers of the Google walkout, who came on her show in November 2018 after leading a 20,000-worker protest. Late...

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Blackstone CEO Steve Schwarzman on H-1B immigration, the China trade war, and why teachers should be tax-exempt from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Steve Schwarzman, the CEO of the private equity firm The Blackstone Group, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his new book, What It Takes: Lessons in the Pursuit of Excellence. Schwarzman — a l...

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Margrethe Vestager: 'This is the biggest wake-up call we've ever had' from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Margrethe Vestager, Europe's commissioner for competition, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher in front of a live audience at Web Summit 2017 in Lisbon, Portugal. Vestager explains how the E.U. is try...

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Recode Decode: Dipayan Ghosh and Ben Scott, co-authors, ‘Digital Deceit’ from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

New America fellow Dipayan Ghosh and senior advisor Ben Scott talk with Recode’s Kara Swisher about their new policy paper, “Digital Deceit: The Technologies Behind Precision Propaganda on the Inte...

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Recode Decode: Edward Snowden from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about why he leaked highly classified information in 2013, why that doesn't make him a "traitor," and his new book, Permanent Recor...

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NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio on why tech can't solve all our problems, and how New York lost Amazon HQ2 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Bill de Blasio, the mayor of New York City, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about why he's still running for the Democratic nomination in 2020, the threat of job automation and his proposed "robot...

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How Reid Hoffman would fix social media (Live) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Reid Hoffman, the co-founder of LinkedIn and a general partner at Greylock Partners, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher in front of a live audience at the Anti-Defamation League conference "Never Is ...

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Recode Decode: Chuck Todd, moderator, 'Meet the Press' from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

NBC News Political Director Chuck Todd talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about how he's evolving what it means to be the host of the longest-running series in TV history, "Meet the Press." Todd disc...

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Recode Decode: Ben Horowitz from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Andreessen Horowitz co-founder Ben Horowitz talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about the state of venture capital, diversity in tech, and his new book, What You Do Is Who You Are: How to Create Your ...

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Greta Van Susteren is not giving up on social media from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Former cable news anchor Greta Van Susteren talks with Recode's Kara Swisher and SKDK's Hilary Rosen about her new book, "Everything You Need to Know about Social Media (Without Having to Call a Ki...

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Recode Decode: Alexandra Petri, columnist, the Washington Post from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Alexandra Petri, who writes the Compost blog for The Washington Post, talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher and Chorus CEO Dick Costolo about making fun of politics. Petri says some politicans have a se...

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Recode Decode: Bill Kristol from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Conservative analyst Bill Kristol talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about the impeachment effort against President Trump, how politics has entered a "crisis of truth" in the era of Fox News and soci...

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The Wing CEO Audrey Gelman on women hiring women and why her company is different from WeWork from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Audrey Gelman, the co-founder and CEO of women's coworking space The Wing, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about the company's new hiring network for its members, and how it can combat bias in hir...

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Why magazine mogul Tina Brown is 'angry and upset' at Google and Facebook from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Tina Brown — the former editor of Vanity Fair, the New Yorker, the Daily Beast and more — talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about her new book, "The Vanity Fair Diaries: 1983 - 1992." In the book, s...

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Recode Decode: Andrew Keen, author, 'How to Fix the Future' from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

"How to Fix the Future" author Andrew Keen talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his new book, which examines reasonable solutions to the social and political disruptions created by the digital re...

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Recode Decode: Gary Cohn from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Gary Cohn, the former Director of the National Economic Council and former chief economic adviser to President Trump, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about what he's done since leaving the Trump a...

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Microsoft President Brad Smith: Fixing what Silicon Valley broke is every tech company's responsibility from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Microsoft President Brad Smith talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher about his new book, co-authored with Carol Ann Browne, Tools and Weapons: The Promise and the Peril of the Digital Age. They discuss ...

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How tech is changing state politics (Stacey Abrams, candidate for governor, Georgia) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Stacey Abrams, a candidate running for governor of Georgia and former minority leader of its general assembly, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher and SKDK's Hilary Rosen about the early stages of the...

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Recode Decode: Gregg Spiridellis, CEO, JibJab from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

JibJab CEO Gregg Spiridellis talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher and Chorus CEO Dick Costolo about how the company has adapted to the ever-changing internet over the past two decades. JibJab was on th...

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Recode Decode: Politics and tech onstage from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Recode's Kara Swisher talks to the creators of two new plays that intersect with tech issues: Heidi Schreck, the former star and playwright of What the Constitution Means to Me, and the writer and ...

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Why workers need to be part of the conversation about UBI and artificial intelligence from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Former New York Times labor reporter Steve Greenhouse talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his most recent book, Beaten Down, Worked Up: The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor. Greenhous...

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How to fight extremism online (Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO, Anti-Defamation League) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Jonathan Greenblatt, the CEO of the Anti-Defamation League, talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher about how the century-old nonprofit is evolving to fight antisemitism and other forms of extremism in th...

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Recode Decode: David Friend, author, ‘The Naughty Nineties’ from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

David Friend, Vanity Fair’s editor of creative development, talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher about his new book, “The Naughty Nineties: The Triumph of the American Libido.” Much of today’s social a...

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Recode Decode: Ronan Farrow from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

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Some CEOs try to be ethical. Most of them can't or won't, says "The Enlightened Capitalists" author James O'Toole. from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

James O'Toole, a professor emeritus at the University of Southern California, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his book, The Enlightened Capitalists: Cautionary Tales of Business Pioneers Who...

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Journalists covering Trump need to ‘tone it down’ (Katy Tur, author, ‘Unbelievable.’) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

MSNBC anchor Katy Tur talks with Recode's Kara Swisher and SKDK's Hilary Rosen about her new book, "Unbelievable: My Front-Row Seat to the Craziest Campaign in American History." While she was at N...

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Recode Decode: Sarah Cooper, author, "100 Tricks To Appear Smart in Meetings” from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Comedian Sarah Cooper talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher and Chorus CEO Dick Costolo about why she left a career in the tech industry to become a stand-up comic. Cooper has made tech a central part o...

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Recode Decode: Ken Burns from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Filmmaker Ken Burns talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his latest documentary series "Country Music," in which he explores the history of the genre, its place in the larger American musical lan...

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Psychologist Jennifer Eberhardt on how hidden biases shape our lives from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

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A 'magical formula' for better decision-making (Ray Dalio, author, 'Principles: Life and Work') from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Ray Dalio, the founder of the world's largest hedge fund Bridgewater Associates, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his new book, "Principles: Life and Work." In it, he lays out how he makes sm...

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Recode Decode: Patty McCord author of "Powerful" from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Patty McCord, the former chief talent officer at Netflix and author of that company's famous "culture deck," talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about her new book, "Powerful: Building a Culture of Fr...

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Recode Decode: The inside story of the Cambridge Analytica scandal from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Cambridge Analytica’s former business development director Brittany Kaiser talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher about her new book TARGETED: The Cambridge Analytica Whistleblower's Inside Story of How ...

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Lime still wants to go public, says president Joe Kraus from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

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Silicon Valley's D.C. showdown, explained (Luther Lowe, Yelp; Beth Wilkinson, Wilkinson Walsh Eskovitz) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Recode's Kara Swisher and SKDK's Hilary Rosen talk about tech, regulation and politics with two special guests: Luther Lowe, the vice president of public policy at Yelp, and Beth Wilkinson, the co-...

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Recode Decode: Dick Costolo, CEO, Chorus from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Chorus CEO Dick Costolo, the former CEO of Twitter, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about why he loves comedy and why his peers in the tech community are so infrequently "in on the joke." Before h...

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Recode Decode: Rosetta Stone President Matt Hulett from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Matt Hulett, the president of education company Rosetta Stone, talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher about the company’s pivot away from language-learning CDs and into a more advanced and “approachable”...

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Gro Intelligence CEO Sara Menker on ag-tech and the future of farming from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Gro Intelligence founder and CEO Sara Menker talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about the growing field of agriculture technology and how farmers around the world are using data. She also talks about...

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Why I'm not afraid of Amazon (David Rosenblatt, CEO, 1stdibs) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

1stdibs CEO David Rosenblatt explains how his company, a marketplace for rare luxury products, made the transition from an advertising to e-commerce. Unlike other executives in the commerce space, ...

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Recode Decode: Kara Swisher visits the Longform Podcast (Live) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

The host of the Longform Podcast, Evan Ratliff, interviews Recode’s Kara Swisher in front of a live audience in San Francisco about how she got started in journalism and how she does her job today....

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Recode Decode: OpenDoor CEO Eric Wu / Evite CEO Victor Cho from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Recode's Kara Swisher interviews two CEOs in this double-feature episode of Recode Decode: First, she speaks with OpenDoor CEO Eric Wu about how technology is encroaching on the real estate industr...

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Huawei's chief security officer in the US, Andy Purdy from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Andy Purdy, the chief security officer for Huawei Technologies USA, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher. They discuss the trade and security disputes between the US and Chinese governments, the increa...

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Can Silicon Valley get its mojo back? (Live) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Kara Swisher joins venture capitalist Shervin Pishevar, theBoardlist founder Sukhinder Singh Cassidy and Uptake CEO Brad Keywell in this live discussion about tech culture from the 2017 Vanity Fair...

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Recode Decode: Zach Stafford and Trish Bendix, editors, Into from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Recode's Kara Swisher and The Verge's Casey Newton talk with Zach Stafford and Trish Bendix, the editor in chief and managing editor of Into — a queer lifestyle magazine published by the dating app...

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Recode Decode: "Antisocial" author Andrew Marantz from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Andrew Marantz, a staff writer at the New Yorker, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his new book, Antisocial: Online Extremists, Techno?Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation...

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CDA 230: The US law that shaped the internet, explained (and debated) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Recode's Kara Swisher convenes a panel of experts to talk about section 230 of the Communications Decency Act: cybersecurity law professor Jeff Kosseff, author of "The Twenty Six Words That Created...

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What Leonardo da Vinci can teach us about tech (Walter Isaacson, author, 'Leonardo da Vinci') from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Author Walter Isaacson talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his new biography of Renaissance artist and inventor Leonardo da Vinci, which he describes has a "culmination" of themes he explored in...

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Recode Decode: Uber's Tony West and Eric Holder on exposing wrongdoing (Live) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Recode's Kara Swisher talks with former attorney general Eric Holder, who led an investigation into Uber's management earlier this year, and the company's new Chief Legal Officer, Tony West. They d...

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Recode Decode: Former HP CEO Carly Fiorina from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Carly Fiorina, the former CEO of HP who ran for the Republican nomination for president in 2016, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about campaigning against Donald Trump, her friendship with Apple c...

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"Cult of the Dead Cow" author Joe Menn on "good guy" hackers, cybercrime, and Beto O'Rourke from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Writer Joe Menn talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his most recent book, "Cult of the Dead Cow: How the Original Hacking Supergroup Might Just Save the World." In this episode: How Menn started...

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Tech elites are heading for a 'big backlash' (Tim O'Reilly, author, 'WTF?') from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

O’Reilly Media founder Tim O’Reilly talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher about his new book, “WTF? What’s the Future and Why It’s Up to Us.” O'Reilly argues that society could be headed for either the ...

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Recode Decode: Sports columnist Christine Brennan previews her 18th consecutive Olympics from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Christine Brennan, the sports columnist for USA Today, talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher about the February 2018 Winter Olympic Games in PyeongChang, South Korea, which will be Brenann’s 18th consec...

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Recode Decode: FEC Chair Ellen Weintraub from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Federal Election Commission Chair Ellen Weintraub talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about how the FEC works, how it tries to defend elections from foreign influence, and why the Commission is curren...

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Welcome to Decoder from 2020-10-27T09:00

It may seem like a strange time to launch a podcast about business when the pandemic has frozen so many things in place, but the future is still coming — people are building technology and making p...

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Recode Decode: David Kaye from 2020-02-14T05:01

David Kaye, the special rapporteur for freedom of opinion and expression at the United Nations, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about the hacking of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos' phone by the Saudi Arabi...

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Recode Decode: David Kaye from 2020-02-14T05:01

David Kaye, the special rapporteur for freedom of opinion and expression at the United Nations, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about the hacking of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos' phone by the Saudi Arabi...

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Recode Decode: (Bonus) How To Save the 2020 Election from 2020-01-01T05:00

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Recode Decode: (Bonus) How To Save the 2020 Election from 2020-01-01T05:00

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Recode Decode: Dylan Collins from 2019-12-18T05:01

SuperAwesome CEO Dylan Collins talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about how he got interested in children's digital privacy at a time when Silicon Valley didn't care, how his company works with tech ...

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Recode Decode: Dylan Collins from 2019-12-18T05:01

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Recode Decode: Tom Steyer from 2019-12-16T07:24

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Recode Decode: Tom Steyer from 2019-12-16T07:24

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Recode Decode: Jana Messerschmidt from 2019-11-20T05:01

Venture capitalist Jana Messerschmidt, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about how she became a partner at Lightspeed and the co-founder of an all-female group of angel investors called #ANGELS. Mes...

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Recode Decode: Jana Messerschmidt from 2019-11-20T05:01

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Recode Decode: Susan Rice from 2019-11-18T05:01

Susan Rice, the former US ambassador to the United Nations and National Security Advisor under President Obama, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about the "ass backwards" way President Trump has ap...

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Recode Decode: Susan Rice from 2019-11-18T05:01

Susan Rice, the former US ambassador to the United Nations and National Security Advisor under President Obama, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about the "ass backwards" way President Trump has ap...

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Recode Decode: Brian Chesky from 2019-11-08T05:01

Airbnb CEO and co-founder Brian Chesky talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about the recent mass shooting at an Airbnb in Orinda, Calif., how the company is changing its policies to keep guests safer,...

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Recode Decode: Brian Chesky from 2019-11-08T05:01

Airbnb CEO and co-founder Brian Chesky talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about the recent mass shooting at an Airbnb in Orinda, Calif., how the company is changing its policies to keep guests safer,...

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Recode Decode: Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield, Apple Music from 2015-07-08T13:00

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Recode Decode: Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield, Apple Music from 2015-07-08T13:00

Kara Swisher interviews Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield, Lauren Goode talks about Apple Music and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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