Discord CEO Jason Citron talks with Recode's Kurt Wagner about how the chat app for PC gamers has grown to 150 million registered users, nearly 20 million of whom use the app every day. Citron says Discord has been "pre-revenue" for the past three years, but now it's starting to think about how it will make money; first up, a games store aimed at recommendin ... Show More
May 6
The Internet’s Let-It-Rip Era, With The Atlantic's Charlie Warzel
The internet is in its let-it-rip era: more AI slop, more video, more clips — and very little in the way of guardrails or rules. Charlie Warzel, who writes and hosts Galaxy Brain for The Atlantic, joins me to talk about what happens when the platforms stop trying very hard to sep ... Show More
1h 4m
Apr 29
AI Can Make Software Now. That Changes Everything, with Paul Ford
Learn to code, they told us. Then the computers went and learned to code. Now anyone can do it, in theory, courtesy of Claude Code and other vibe coding apps. Tech people I talk to are very, very excited about this. But they often have a hard time explaining to me, a non-coder, w ... Show More
53m 20s
Apr 22
Jason Blum Built a Hit-Making Movie Machine. Does It Still Work?
Jason Blum built one of Hollywood’s smartest businesses: make low-budget horror movies, give filmmakers room, pay talent on the back end, and let the hits carry the misses. It worked so well that it became a Harvard Business Review case study.But the movie business that made that ... Show More
27m 12s
Nov 2024
20VC: Discord's Jason Citron on Why Everything We are Taught About Hiring & Management is BS | Do Richer Founders & Gamer Founders Make Better Founders? | Never Before Told Moments Behind Scaling to 200M Users
<p dir="ltr">Jason Citron is the Co-Founder and CEO of Discord, a voice, video and text platform for friends playing games. Jason has raised $1BN for the company and was able to scale to 200M users. Prior to co-founding Discord, Jason founded OpenFeint, the biggest social mobile ... Show More
50m 33s
Jul 2024
Founders Playbook: Lessons from Riot, Discord, & More
<p>Gaming is not just entertainment—it's a revolution reshaping our culture, technology, and economy. </p><p>a16z’s Jonathan Lai and Andrew Chen dive into the current gaming renaissance and its future impact. Joining them are Michael Chow, CEO and Steven Snow, CPO of The Believer ... Show More
25m 56s
May 2025
Is This Really the Chrome Killer?
This week, Marques, Andrew, and David discuss some of the big news of the week including One UI betas, a new Dyson vacuum that Andrew is hyped about, and a Pixel 10 leak (shocker). After that, they chat with Josh Miller from The Browser Company about what is going on with the the ... Show More
1h 24m
Mar 2025
Switch 2, Steam Deck, and the next-gen console wars
Handheld gaming looks like the future — so why isn't it more popular? The Verge's Sean Hollister joins the show to talk about some new data about the handheld console market, what it says about the Steam Deck's dominance, whether the Switch 2 might change everything all over agai ... Show More
1h 24m
May 2024
The rise of the audio-only video game
In episode two of our Five Senses of Gaming miniseries, David Pierce dives into the world of hearing with audio-only video games with Paul Bennun, who has been in this space longer than most. Years ago, Bennun and his team at Somethin’ Else made a series of games called Papa Sang ... Show More
27m 9s
Jun 2025
YouTube Needs to Fix This!
This week Marques, Andrew, and David talk about everything from a potential new Xbox to the rumored Instagram app for iPad. Then they talk about YouTube using AI to autodub videos based on viewer location and the pros and cons of the new feature. After that, Adam and David gush o ... Show More
1h 17m
Dec 2024
Gemini, GTA, and the search for the next big thing
The Verge's Victoria Song and Kylie Robison join the show to talk about all of Google's recent AI and XR announcements, and the company's big and Gemini-powered vision for the future of computing. Then Chris Grant, the group publisher for Polygon and The Verge, explains why GTA V ... Show More
1h 35m
May 2020
E1064: News Roundtable! Sam Parr & Zach Coelius on Barstool Sports vs. Call Her Daddy, SoftBank’s $17B loss, TikTok poaches former Disney exec as CEO, Facebook launches Shops & more!
0:51 Jason intros Zach Coelius & Sam Parr<br />
2:28 Barstool Sports vs. Call Her Daddy<br />
6:49 Penn National Gaming stock soaring, Dave Portnoy winning this controversy<br />
13:17 SoftBank reports $17.7B annual loss, worst figures in 39-year history<br />
17:19 Does Soft ... Show More
1h 2m