Decoder with Nilay Patel
The Verge
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.
Categories: Business
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Hey everyone it’s Nilay – I’m on vacation this week, so the Decoder team is taking a short break. We’ll be back next week with both the interview and the new explainer episodes. To tide you over until Monday, we have a bonus episode from our friends at Vox Media and Eater’s Gastropod about an incredible patent battle in the world of pizza. I’m serious: One of the biggest fights in the pizza industry took place in US court in the ‘90s — an intellectual property dispute about stuffed crust pizza between Pizza Hut and patent holder Anthony “The Big Cheese” Mongiello. So much of what we talk about on Decoder comes down to IP lawsuits like copyright or patent disputes, and how judges decide those cases and where the law ends up can steer the course of history. And that’s true whether we’re talking about a line of code, the distribution method of an MP3, or, yes, even stuffed crust pizza. Links: Can You Patent a Pizza? — Gastropod Ivana and Donald Trump Pizza Hut Commercial — YouTube The Next Big Thing in Pizza? Try 'Stuffed Crust' — NYT Who Created the Stuffed Crust Pizza? It's Complicated. — Eater Method of making a pizza — Google Patents Credits: Decoder is a production of The Verge, and part of the Vox Media Podcast Network. Today’s episode was produced by Kate Cox and Nick Statt and was edited by Callie Wright. Our supervising producer is Liam James. The Decoder music is by Breakmaster Cylinder. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Previous episodes
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763 - Can you patent a pizza? Thu, 28 Mar 2024
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762 - Federation is the future of social media, says Bluesky CEO Jay Graber Mon, 25 Mar 2024
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761 - How Europe’s Digital Markets Act is reshaping Big Tech Thu, 21 Mar 2024
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760 - Figma CEO Dylan Field is optimistic about the future and AI Mon, 18 Mar 2024
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759 - Why Google Search feels like it’s gotten worse Thu, 14 Mar 2024
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758 - How to save culture from the algorithms, with Filterworld author Kyle Chayka Mon, 11 Mar 2024
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757 - Why people are falling in love with AI chatbots Thu, 07 Mar 2024
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756 - Guest host Hank Green makes Nilay Patel explain why websites have a future Mon, 04 Mar 2024
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755 - AI deepfakes are cheap, easy, and coming for the 2024 election Thu, 29 Feb 2024
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754 - Crunchyroll President Rahul Purini on how anime took over the world Mon, 26 Feb 2024
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753 - Is the Apple Vision Pro All That? Thu, 22 Feb 2024
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752 - How AI copyright lawsuits could make the whole industry go extinct Thu, 15 Feb 2024
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751 - DOJ’s Jonathan Kanter says the antitrust fight against Big Tech is just beginning Mon, 12 Feb 2024
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750 - Why EV adoption in the US has hit a roadblock Thu, 08 Feb 2024
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749 - Platformer’s Casey Newton on surviving the great media collapse and what comes next Mon, 05 Feb 2024
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748 - Why Sen. Brian Schatz thinks child safety bills can trump the First Amendment Tue, 30 Jan 2024
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747 - Rep. Ro Khanna on what it will take for Congress to regulate AI, privacy, and social media Tue, 23 Jan 2024
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746 - How Adobe is managing the AI copyright dilemma, with general counsel Dana Rao Tue, 09 Jan 2024
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745 - How Donald Trump and Elon Musk killed Twitter, with Marty Baron and Zoe Schiffer Thu, 21 Dec 2023
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744 - Why Flexport CEO Ryan Petersen took his company back Tue, 19 Dec 2023
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743 - USDS head Mina Hsiang wants Big Tech’s best minds to help fix the government Tue, 12 Dec 2023
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742 - IBM's Jerry Chow explains the next phase of quantum computing Tue, 05 Dec 2023
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741 - Wix CEO Avishai Abrahami isn’t worried AI will kill the web Tue, 28 Nov 2023
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740 - Chaos at OpenAI: What happened to Sam Altman, and what's next Mon, 20 Nov 2023
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739 - Volvo CEO Jim Rowan thinks dropping CarPlay is a mistake Tue, 14 Nov 2023
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738 - Barack Obama on AI, free speech, and the future of the internet Tue, 07 Nov 2023
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737 - AI is on a collision course with the music industry. Reservoir's Golnar Khosrowshahi thinks there’s a way through it Tue, 31 Oct 2023
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736 - Harvard professor Lawrence Lessig on why AI and social media are causing a free speech crisis for the internet Tue, 24 Oct 2023
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735 - Clearview AI and the end of privacy, with author Kashmir Hill Tue, 17 Oct 2023
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734 - CEO David Baszucki's mission to make Roblox a billion-player platform Thu, 12 Oct 2023
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733 - Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe on ramping up R1T production and competing with the Cybertruck Tue, 10 Oct 2023
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732 - Getty Images CEO Craig Peters has a plan to defend photography from AI Thu, 05 Oct 2023
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731 - Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott on how AI and art will coexist in the future Tue, 03 Oct 2023
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730 - 'The Android of agriculture': Monarch Tractor CEO Praveen Penmetsa on the future of farming Sat, 30 Sep 2023
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729 - AMD CEO Lisa Su on the AI revolution Fri, 29 Sep 2023
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728 - X CEO Linda Yaccarino defends Elon Musk, and herself, at Code 2023 Fri, 29 Sep 2023
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727 - Mark Zuckerberg on Threads, the future of AI, and Quest 3 Wed, 27 Sep 2023
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726 - After 10 years covering startups, former TechCrunch EIC Matthew Panzarino tells us what's next Tue, 19 Sep 2023
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725 - More than Sally Ride: Loren Grush explains how NASA’s first women astronauts changed space Tue, 12 Sep 2023
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724 - Biometrics? Bring it on: Why Okta’s Jameeka Green Aaron wants passwords to go away Tue, 29 Aug 2023
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723 - Fandom runs some of the biggest communities on the web. Can CEO Perkins Miller keep them happy? Tue, 22 Aug 2023
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722 - Land of the Giants: Tesla vs. The Competition Tue, 15 Aug 2023
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721 - There's no AI without the cloud, says AWS CEO Adam Selipsky Tue, 08 Aug 2023
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720 - Rewind: Can Mastodon seize the moment from Twitter? Tue, 25 Jul 2023
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719 - Why would anyone make a website in 2023? Squarespace CEO Anthony Casalena has some ideas Tue, 18 Jul 2023
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718 - Inside Google’s big AI shuffle — and how it plans to stay competitive, with Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis Mon, 10 Jul 2023
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717 - Why CEO David Baszucki is ready for Roblox to grow up Tue, 27 Jun 2023
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716 - Gary Vaynerchuk is ‘petrified’ of Slack Wed, 21 Jun 2023
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715 - Private equity bought out your doctor and bankrupted Toys”R”Us. Here’s why that matters. Tue, 13 Jun 2023
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714 - SiriusXM’s 360 strategy with CEO Jennifer Witz Tue, 06 Jun 2023