Tag: Decoder with Nilay Patel

• Decoder with Nilay Patel: Are prediction markets gambling? Robinhood’s Vlad Tenev is betting not

  April 14, 2025

  Listen: https://ift.tt/8rNEsOM Today, I’m talking with Vlad Tenev, the co-founder and CEO of Robinhood, which started as a way to open up stock trading. But the company’s ambitions have grown… more ›

• Decoder with Nilay Patel: Splice CEO Kakul Srivastava on why push-button AI is “insulting” to musicians

  March 24, 2025

  Listen: https://ift.tt/wfAyBQ7 Today, I’m talking with Kakul Srivastava, CEO of music creation platform Splice, which is one of the biggest marketplaces around for loops and samples. You can just go… more ›

• Decoder with Nilay Patel: The FCC is a now a weapon in Trump’s war on free speech

  February 13, 2025

  Listen: https://ift.tt/hZLfsM5 The First Amendment, protecting free speech and free media, is a pillar of US law. It is, famously, the first one. We don’t usually tolerate government interference with… more ›

• Decoder with Nilay Patel: How Meta’s MAGA heel turn is a play for global power

  January 24, 2025

  Listen: https://ift.tt/G7saBog It’s been a messy couple of weeks for big tech companies as the second Trump administration kicks off an unprecedented era of how we think about who controls… more ›

• Decoder with Nilay Patel: Why CEO Matt Garman is willing to bet AWS on AI

  January 13, 2025

  https://ift.tt/P2Nu7Yi Today, I’m talking with Matt Garman, the CEO of Amazon Web Services. Matt took over as CEO last June — you might recall that we had his predecessor Adam… more ›