Decoder with Nilay Patel

Nilay Patel

decoder@theverge.com

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Booking Overview

This interview show explores major business, technology, policy, and organizational systems through conversations with senior executives, policymakers, technical leaders, and prominent authors or academics. Credible pitches include technology company CEOs and CTOs, AI and autonomous-vehicle experts, regulators, policy thinkers, and authors with original research on technology and governance; booking is difficult because the show features highly prominent, decision-making guests.

Metrics

Episodes: 959

Frequency: Multiple_weekly

Rating: 4.2/5.0

Estimated listeners: 10k-100k

Gender skew: Unknown

Location: USA

YouTube: 3.5M subscribers

Instagram: 18.0k followers

Contact Information

decoder@theverge.com

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Host

Nilay Patel - Nilay Patel is editor-in-chief of The Verge and a technology journalist covering the business, policy, and societal impact of technology.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

high
Typical Credentials:  
Senior technology executives, founders, policymakers, technical leaders, and established authors or academics with direct expertise in consequential business, technology, or governance issues.
Required Achievements:  
Executive leadership at a major technology company, Development or oversight of significant technology products or platforms, Original research or policy expertise, Publication of an influential book or major body of scholarship

Recent Guest Discussions

Jill Lepore - Artificial Intelligence, Institutional Systems, Quantification, Governance, History, And The Societal Consequences Of Technology.

Bart Butler - Privacy-focused Product Architecture, Corporate Ownership, User Protection, Cybersecurity, And Regulatory Pressure.

Xinzhou Wu - AI Compute, Electric Vehicles, Autonomous Driving, Automotive Partnerships, And The Technological Limits Of Driver-assistance Systems.

Recent Topics

Technology, Business, Public Policy, Artificial Intelligence, Privacy

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
Decoder with Nilay Patel
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Bose CEO Lila Snyder on the fight for high-quality audio

August 10, 2026

My guest today is Lila Snyder, the CEO of Bose. Lila was last on the show about four years ago, and since then she’s dramatically rearchitected the company — she sold off Bose Professional, acquired the high end audio brands McIntosh Labs and Sonus faber, and, perhaps most importantly, started licensing all that core Bose technology to other companies. That big change in the business comes with a big change in structure. Becoming a software company in addition to a product company comes with...

The left and right agree on one thing: no data centers

August 06, 2026

Our guest today is Gaby Del Valle, a policy reporter here at The Verge, and we’re discussing the growing backlash against AI data centers. Gaby recently reported a fantastic piece about Hernando County, Florida, where last month the county commission unanimously approved a year-long moratorium on data center construction. So I wanted Gaby to talk me through what these protests look like on the ground, from voters whose party affiliations have typically aligned them with big business. Read t...

Bluesky’s new CEO wants a big tent, not a bubble

August 03, 2026

Today, I’m talking with Toni Schneider, the new head of social platform Bluesky who formally took over after a short stint as interim CEO. This is one of my favorite kinds of interviews, because a couple years ago we had Bluesky’s prior CEO, Jay Graber, on the show — she’s now the company’s chief innovation officer. All of that kind of shuffle is pure Decoder bait: a new CEO often brings with them new priorities, which is perhaps the most Decoder subject of all. Read the ⁠full interview tran...

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