Apr 20
Canva's CEO on its big pivot to AI enterprise software
The last time Canva CEO Melanie Perkins was on Decoder, the company was starting a big push into enterprise. Now, she's leading it through a total reinvention, going, in Canva's words, "from a design platform with AI tools to an AI platform with design tools." But there's a lot o ... Show More
1h 6m
Apr 16
Ronan Farrow on Sam Altman's "unconstrained" relationship with the truth
Today I’m talking with Ronan Farrow, one of the biggest stars of investigative reporting working today. He broke the Harvey Weinstein story, among many, many others. Just last week, he and co-author Andrew Marantz published an incredible deep-dive feature in The New Yorker about ... Show More
1h 2m
Aug 2023
Job description: professional workplace bestie
<p>Stack Overflow’s Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) focus on aspects of employees’ personhood, “who you are outside of your role, who you bring to every single room that you enter,” Joey explains. Among our ERGs are Black and Brown, LGBTQ+, MIND (mental illness and neurodiversity ... Show More
28m 51s
Aug 2023
The fine line between product and engineering
<p><a href="https://www.twilio.com/en-us" target="_blank">Twilio</a> is a customer engagement platform whose communication APIs for voice, text, chat, email, and video are used by millions of developers. See what’s happening on their <a href="https://www.twilio.com/blog" target=" ... Show More
22m 39s
Oct 2022
Building Substack | Sachin Monga (Substack, Facebook)
<p>Sachin Monga is the Head of Product at Substack, a platform that I personally use every day, and love. Before Substack, Sachin co-founded an app called Cocoon, which he ended up selling to Substack. Before that, he spent over seven years at Facebook as a PM working on video an ... Show More
1h 1m
Today I'm talking to Prashanth Chandrasekar the CEO of Stack Overflow – a highly specialized kind of social network, with a really unique business model. If you don't know Stack Overflow is a major part of the modern software development landscape: it’s where developers come together, ask questions, and get answers about how to build software, including actu ... Show More
<p>If you missed the first part of this conversation, listen to it <a href="https://stackoverflow.blog/2023/09/14/multiplayer-programming-on-mobile-a-chat-with-replit-ceo-amjad-masad/" target="_blank">here</a>.</p><p><a href="https://replit.com/" target="_blank">Replit</a> is a b ... Show More
<p>AI will change your work... But it's time for us to find the path forward.</p><h2>🙏 Today's Episode is Brought To you by: <a href="https://developertea.com/square">Square</a></h2><p>Square has APIs for almost every aspect of running a business from employee management, to ord ... Show More