Best Matt Mullenweg Podcasts (2023)

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Distributed, with Matt Mullenweg

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Episode 30: The Magic of Meetups 58:08

13h ago58:08

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Subscribe to Distributed at Pocket Casts, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, RSS, or wherever you like to listen. On this episode of Distributed, we dig into the good, the bad, and the karaoke-filled history of Automattic meetups. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, our annual Grand Meetup brought the entire company together for a week. The time spent together — a…

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Decoder with Nilay Patel

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Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott on AI copilots, disagreeing with OpenAI, and Sydney making a comeback 1:07:10

3m ago1:07:10

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Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott, who as of this week also has the new title executive vice president of AI, oversees Microsoft's AI efforts, including the big partnership with OpenAI and ChatGPT. Kevin and I spoke ahead of his keynote talk at Microsoft Build, the company’s annual developer conference, where he showed off the company’s new AI assistant to…

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Design Better Podcast

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John Maeda: AI + Design 35:21

10h ago35:21

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Today we welcome back John Maeda, who is currently Vice President of Design and Artificial Intelligence at Microsoft. You’re probably familiar with John’s work, but if not, take a listen to Episode 42 of this show, where he talks about the arc of his remarkable career. In today’s episode, we talk with John about his role at Microsoft, what’s most m…

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Decoder with Nilay Patel

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Recode Media: Inside the AI Gold Rush 50:25

6d ago50:25

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Today – we’ve got a treat for you. We’re going to run a special episode from our friends over at Vox. Peter Kafka and his team just wrapped up a special 3-part series on AI. AI has captured the imagination of Silicon Valley. In fact, in the last few months, I’ve talked to both Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella about AI after …

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Decoder with Nilay Patel

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Exclusive: Google’s Sundar Pichai talks Search, AI, and dancing with Microsoft 42:21

7m ago42:21

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Hello and welcome to Decoder. I’m Nilay Patel, editor in chief of The Verge, and Decoder is my show about big ideas, and other problems. We have a special episode today – I’m talking to Sundar Pichai, the CEO of Google and Alphabet. We hung out the day after Google IO, the company’s big developer conference, where Sundar introduced new generative A…

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Design Better Podcast

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Sheena Iyengar: Choose to think bigger 40:02

14d ago40:02

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We may not think about it all that often, but the choices that we make often end up defining who we become. Dr. Sheena Iyengar, the S.T. Lee Professor of Business at the Columbia Business School, makes the psychology of choice and decision-making the focus of much of her research. She wrote a best-selling book called The Art of Choosing, and just p…

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Decoder with Nilay Patel

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I can't make products just for 41 year old tech founders," Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky on taking it back to the basics 1:04:24

2d ago1:04:24

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Brian Chesky, the co-founder and CEO of Airbnb, was previously on the show in 2021. Back then, Airbnb was betting big on long-term stays for remote work amid the pandemic, and Chesky had just restructured the company to a more functional organization, getting rid of the divisions it had before. Now, the pandemic is ending, Airbnb has itself adopted…

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Decoder with Nilay Patel

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The social media age for news is over. Former BuzzFeed News editor Ben Smith on what’s next 1:11:14

8d ago1:11:14

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Ben Smith is the former and founding editor-in-chief of Buzzfeed News, the founder and editor-in-chief of Semafor, and the author of a new book called Traffic: Genius, Rivalry, and Delusion in the Billion-Dollar Race to Go Viral, which is about the rise and fall of the social platform age in media, through the lens of Gawker Media and Buzzfeed and,…

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Design Better Podcast

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Matt Mullenweg: WordPress, AI, and jazz 1:04:10

29d ago1:04:10

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Matt Mullenweg started out as a jazz saxophonist, and went on to create WordPress, which is the platform behind an astonishing 42% of the websites in the world. We chat with Matt about his journey from musician to developer to entrepreneur, his perspective on distributed work, and his thoughts on the transformative capabilities of the latest genera…

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Decoder with Nilay Patel

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Bitcoin is still the future of payments, says Lightspark CEO David Marcus 50:45

1M ago50:45

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We’ve got a special episode with Alex Heath, deputy editor at The Verge and a familiar host for Decoder listeners, and David Marcus, the CEO of Lightspark. That’s a company that just launched a service to make fast transactions using Bitcoin on something called the Lightning Network. David was previously at PayPal, and then he led Meta’s big paymen…

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Decoder with Nilay Patel

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Brightdrop isn’t just selling electric vans — it's redesigning delivery 1:11:10

28d ago1:11:10

1:11:10

Travis Katz is the CEO of BrightDrop, a subsidiary of GM that makes electrified delivery vans with an eye toward rebooting all of how delivery works. BrightDrop has pretty big partnerships already, with names like FedEx, Verizon, and Walmart committed to its Zevo 600 van, and it’s got big ideas for making the steps from the van to your door more ef…

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Is Substack Notes a ‘Twitter clone’? We asked CEO Chris Best. 1:08:01

27d ago1:08:01

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It is fair to say that Substack has had a dramatic week and a half or so, and I talked to their CEO Chris Best about it. The company announced a new feature called Substack Notes, which looks quite a bit like Twitter — Substack authors can post short bits of text to share links and kick off discussions, and people can reply to them, like the posts,…

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Design Better Podcast

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Kevin Bethune: Reimagining design 48:43

29d ago48:43

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Not many people can say they’ve gone from being a nuclear engineer to helping design Air Jordans at Nike. But that’s part of Kevin Bethune’s story, and today we chat with him about his journey from engineering to design. Kevin also published a best-selling book last year called Reimagining Design: Unlocking Strategic Innovation. We talk about what …

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Decoder with Nilay Patel

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Watching Silicon Valley Bank melt down from the front row with Brex CEO Henrique Dubugras 1:04:51

1M ago1:04:51

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Brex CEO Henrique Dubugras found himself playing an important role during the Silicon Valley Bank collapse. Brex is what you might call a neobank — not a traditional bank but rather a financial services provider that helps companies manage how they spend money, corporate cards, travel expenses and the rest. In the middle of the SVB collapse, Brex w…

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The surprisingly complex business of toys, with Hasbro CEO Chris Cocks 1:10:34

1M ago1:10:34

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Chris Cocks is the CEO of Hasbro, a company that just turned 100 this year. Hasbro is a huge company, making everything from Transformers to Lincoln Logs to My Little Pony and Monopoly. It also makes Magic: The Gathering and Dungeons & Dragons, which are massive and growing businesses. Chris was the head of that division, called Wizards of the Coas…

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Design Better Podcast

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Tony Fadell: How to build the future 53:36

1M ago53:36

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For many of us, being the co-creator of two of the most transformative products of the early 21st century—the iPod and iPhone—would be enough for one career. But Tony Fadell was just getting started. After his time at Apple, Tony went on to start Nest Labs, known for its smart home products like thermostats and fire alarms, which sold to Google for…

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Can Mastodon seize the moment from Twitter? 1:18:37

2M ago1:18:37

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Today I’m talking to Mastodon CEO Eugen Rochko. Mastodon is the open-source, decentralized competitor to Twitter, and it’s where a lot of Twitter users have gone in this, our post-Elon era. The idea is that you don’t join a single platform that one company controls, you join a server, and that server can show you content from users across the entir…

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How to play the long game, with New York Times CEO Meredith Kopit Levien 1:01:55

2M ago1:01:55

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Meredith Kopit Levien is the CEO of The New York Times, which is perhaps the most famous journalism organization in the world, and certainly one of America’s most complicated companies. The Times is 172 years old, and has only recently become a force on the internet. It’s hard to remember, but back in 2014 and ‘15, people thought the Times was doom…

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Taylor Swift vs. Ronald Reagan: The Ticketmaster story 33:26

2M ago33:26

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This special episode dives deep on Taylor Swift, Ticketmaster, and how a handful of policy changes in the 1980s led to one firm so thoroughly dominating the live events business in the United States that Congress held a hearing in 2023, because Taylor Swift fans were so upset about antitrust law. That sentence is wild. We’re going to unpack all of …

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‘The Goliath is Amazon’: after 100 years, Barnes & Noble wants to go back to its indie roots 1:03:08

2M ago1:03:08

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In this installment of our Centennial Series on companies that are over 100 years old, we are talking to Barnes & Noble CEO James Daunt. The last few decades have thrown some hurdles in Barnes & Noble’s way, however. Far from being the monster that inspired the plot of the movie You’ve Got Mail, it’s had to face down a new Goliath called Amazon and…

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Design Better Podcast

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Judy and Daniel Wert: Challenging times in tech 48:57

2M ago48:57

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It’s a challenging time in tech right now. Chances are, if you haven’t been directly affected by the layoffs, you know someone—or many people—who have. In today’s episode, we’re welcoming back Judy Wert, along with her son and colleague Daniel. At their executive search firm Wert & Co, they’ve guided many leaders through navigating career changes. …

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Decoder with Nilay Patel

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Why Spotify wants to look like TikTok, with co-president Gustav Söderström 1:00:49

2M ago1:00:49

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Gustav Söderström has worked at Spotify for a long time; his first big project was leading the launch of its mobile app back in 2009. That makes him the perfect company leader to talk to about Spotify’s recent redesign, which introduces a visual, TikTok-like feed for discovering new content on the app’s homepage. As his boss CEO Daniel Ek put it la…

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Decoder with Nilay Patel

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Can Xerox reinvent itself for another 100 years? 1:03:33

2M ago1:03:33

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Intro: Steve Bandrowczak, the CEO of Xerox, an iconic company that got started all the way back in 1906 as a manufacturer of photo paper and is, of course, best known for pioneering the copy machine. Here in 2023, Xerox has moved well beyond paper. It now works with companies large and small to provide IT services: it optimizes workflows, manages d…

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How Reddit is getting simpler — and dealing with TikTok, with chief product officer Pali Bhat 1:01:41

2M ago1:01:41

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Pali Bhat joined Reddit from Google about a year ago — he’s actually Reddit’s first-ever chief product officer, which is pretty surprising considering that Reddit is a series of product experiences: the reading experience, the writing experience, and importantly, the moderation experience. One thing we always say on Decoder is that the real product…

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Decoder with Nilay Patel

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Podcasting? Radio? It’s all one big opportunity for iHeartMedia digital CEO Conal Byrne 1:08:59

2M ago1:08:59

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We taped this episode live at Hot Pod Summit. That’s our conference for the podcast industry. We have a whole newsletter for podcasters. It’s called Hot Pod, written by our very own Ariel Shapiro. Hot Pod Summit is where we bring that community of creators, trendsetters and decision-makers together to explore the latest developments in podcasting, …

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Decoder with Nilay Patel

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Erase browser history: can AI reset the browser battle? 1:09:41

3M ago1:09:41

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Hello and welcome to Decoder. I’m Nilay Patel, editor in chief of The Verge, and Decoder is my show about big ideas, and other problems. Today, I'm talking to Mitchell Baker, the chairwoman and CEO of Mozilla, the organization behind the Firefox browser, the Thunderbird email client, the Pocket newsreader, and a bunch of other interesting internet …

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