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January 31, 2020

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How do we become a better society?
Why is it so unpopular to be successful today?
Is anger a great motivator?
Why are good ideas no longer getting funded in Silicon Valley?
Who are the people winning and losing in the Silicon Valley Ponzi scheme?
When is the next crash going to happen?
How do you find ideas that make a lot of money?
Jason Calacanis: TikTok should be banned, Tim Cook doesn't have enough "chutzpah," and Uber will be fine
Is Uber deemed to fail?
Is bike sharing the future of mobility?
What's the next breakthrough for SpaceX?
Does Jeff Bezos have a blind spot?
What is the solution to growing wealth inequality?
What's wrong with journalism in 2020?
Is Michael Bloomberg the right choice for a Democratic President?
How do you make private school affordable?
Did Kara Swisher declare a war on homework?
How do we make the American Dream more real?
Today, Explained host Sean Rameswaram explains the future of podcasts
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Kevin Systrom: What we can learn about coronavirus by looking at the data
David Plouffe: How to beat Donald Trump, and how coronavirus will change the election
Episode 500: Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield on coronavirus, working from home, and Slack's redesign
Gary Vaynerchuk: The coronavirus crisis will force businesses to be better
Deepak Chopra: "If this doesn't bring us together, then we deserve whatever happens"
Chamath Palihapitiya: "The investing landscape is done,” taxes will go up, and a two-week lockdown is inevitable
Ben Hubbard: How Saudi Arabia's Mohammed bin Salman became a feared leader and cyber criminal
Andrew Yang: Sending everyone money makes even more sense in a crisis like coronavirus
"After Truth": New HBO documentary explores the cost of "fake news"
Maggie Haberman: How coronavirus changes everything for President Trump
Ron Klain: The coronavirus outbreak is just getting started in the US
Dr. Lloyd Minor: Why we shouldn’t panic about coronavirus, and should start taking precision medicine seriously
Mark Lemley: Innovation in tech suffers when we focus on the "exit"
Aicha Evans and Jesse Levinson: Self-driving taxis will be here in 2021
Dan Pfeiffer: The real problem isn't Trump — it's the other Republicans
Conor Dougherty: San Francisco’s housing crisis is coming for your city next
Jorge Ramos: Bernie Sanders might have just lost Florida
Steven Levy: Mark Zuckerberg was blinded by his need to compete
Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler: "The Future Is Faster Than You Think"
Caleb Scharf: Living on Mars is complicated, actually
Corey Johnson: How to fix transportation in New York City
David Kaye: How the Saudis hacked Jeff Bezos' phone
Larry Ingrassia: How Warby Parker, Dollar Shave Club and other disruptors became billion-dollar companies
Carol Leonnig and Phil Rucker: Trump doesn't care if he lies, and his supporters don't, either
Mark Surman: We have to fight for the future of the internet

Anna Wiener: The dark side of the tech industry's seductive culture
Dave Eggers: What Democrats get wrong about Trump
Franklin Leonard: Greed can combat Hollywood’s bias
Ezra Klein: Parties, not policy, are "Why We're Polarized"
Annalee Newitz: Why real time travel would look a lot like Wikipedia
Numa Perrier and Tiffany Tenille: In new Netflix film "Jezebel," the sex industry goes online
The L Word: Why the cast reunited for "Generation Q"
Kirsten Green: The four types of startups
Ben Silbermann: How Pinterest is trying to make its users feel better
Jeanette Winterson remixes "Frankenstein" with AI, queer love, and cryogenics in "Frankissstein"
Jason DeParle: How poverty and global migration intersect
Megan Rapinoe: I'm not running for office because Democrats have standards
David Epstein: Why successful people don't do only one thing well
The Swisher family: What Kara’s relatives think about tech, privacy, and Fox News
Bruce Schneier: How insecure, unregulated tech is endangering the world
(Bonus) How To Save the 2020 Election: Stopping Fake News
Best of 2019: Our favorite moments on Recode Decode this year
Liz Plank: "A new vision for mindful masculinity"
Dylan Collins: An "existential crisis" for the internet — it wasn't designed for kids
Tom Steyer: Big business bought and broke the US government
Ben Mezrich: The Winklevoss twins’ second act as "Bitcoin Billionaires"
Margaret O'Mara: Silicon Valley doesn't understand its own history
Neal Katyal: Why Donald Trump will be removed from office
Nadav Goshen: What 3-D printing needs before it's ready for mainstream consumers
Andrea Matwyshyn: We already have the internet of things. The "internet of bodies" is next.
Deborah Rutter: How tech has changed performing arts — for the better
Rick Smith: The ethics of designing body cameras and other police tech
Barry Friedman: Is technology making police better — or worse?
Innovation in the midwest: Entrepreneurship outside of Silicon Valley
Jana Messerschmidt: How do we get more women on the cap table?
Susan Rice: Trump's foreign policy is not "America first," it's "me first"
SEC Commissioner Robert Jackson: CEOs are not royalty, and dual class stock should not last forever
Recode Decode trailer
Alexis Ohanian: All parents, including dads, should have six months of paid family leave
Stroke survivor Ted Baxter on recovery and how the stroke changed his life "for the better"
After a deadly shooting, how is Airbnb going to keep its guests safer?
Don't blame Mark Zuckerberg for inequality — blame the government for not setting the rules, MSNBC's Stephanie Ruhle says.
The fallout of the Google walkout, one year later
Edward Snowden on surveillance capitalism, the threats facing democracy, and why he doesn't want you to trust him
Andreessen Horowitz founder Ben Horowitz on what startups can learn from samurai
Bill Kristol on how conservatives lied to themselves about Trump, how to secure the 2020 election, and the "nightmare scenario" for 2024
Former Trump adviser Gary Cohn on mobile cybersecurity, why tech giants should be regulated as "data companies," and overvalued private companies
"What the Constitution Means to Me" creator Heidi Schreck / "Right to Be Forgotten" creators Sharyn Rothstein and Seema Sueko
"Catch and Kill" author Ronan Farrow on how predators like Harvey Weinstein covered their tracks
BONUS: Can A.I. teach you to write better?
Ken Burns on "Country Music," digital documentaries, and why "there's no them, there's only us"
The inside story of the Cambridge Analytica scandal
Rosetta Stone President Matt Hulett on how to learn new languages and not forget them
Disrupting real estate with OpenDoor CEO Eric Wu / Evite CEO Victor Cho on turning around a Web 1.0 company

"Antisocial" author Andrew Marantz on how the far right hijacked the internet
Former HP CEO Carly Fiorina: Trump is doing lasting damage to the Republican Party
FEC Chair Ellen Weintraub on political paralysis, election security, and Trump's "voter fraud" fantasies
Obama's cybersecurity chief Michael Daniel: Facebook is an “intelligence officer’s wet dream”
FTC Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter on Facebook's $5 billion fine, YouTube's COPPA violations, and the dangers of under-enforcement
Senator Mark Warner on the Ukraine whistleblower, the end of anonymity, and the ongoing Russia investigation
Whistleblowers have never been more important — or more at risk, says Whistleblower Aid CEO John Tye
Hermitage Capital CEO Bill Browder on Putin's crimes and DoNotPay CEO Josh Browder on robot lawyers for consumers
"She Said" authors Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey on Harvey Weinstein's downfall and the unanswered questions of the #MeToo movement
Blackstone CEO Steve Schwarzman on H-1B immigration, the China trade war, and why teachers should be tax-exempt
NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio on why tech can't solve all our problems, and how New York lost Amazon HQ2
2020 presidential candidate Marianne Williamson on the problems with American capitalism, why she's not a "long shot," and being a religious Democrat
The Wing CEO Audrey Gelman on women hiring women and why her company is different from WeWork
Microsoft President Brad Smith: Fixing what Silicon Valley broke is every tech company's responsibility
Why workers need to be part of the conversation about UBI and artificial intelligence
Some CEOs try to be ethical. Most of them can't or won't, says "The Enlightened Capitalists" author James O'Toole.
Psychologist Jennifer Eberhardt on how hidden biases shape our lives
Lime still wants to go public, says president Joe Kraus
Gro Intelligence CEO Sara Menker on ag-tech and the future of farming
Huawei's chief security officer in the US, Andy Purdy
CDA 230: The US law that shaped the internet, explained (and debated)
"Cult of the Dead Cow" author Joe Menn on "good guy" hackers, cybercrime, and Beto O'Rourke

Index Ventures' Mike Volpi and Danny Rimer on global innovation and founder power
Rep. Ro Khanna on Bernie Sanders, 2020 election interference, and pragmatic tech regulation
Andreessen Horowitz's Scott Kupor on the "secrets" of venture capital
Why Silicon Valley loves "biohacking" and intermittent fasting
Stanford University's Larry Diamond on Russia, China, and the "new Cold War"
Rep. Lauren Underwood on the impeachment debate, representing a swing district, and "toxic" 2020 candidates
“The $300 textbook is dead” says Pearson CEO John Fallon
Democracy is for sale, says “The Great Hack” director Karim Amer
Megan Rapinoe still isn’t going to the White House, even if Trump invites her
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman: “Would I love to see the government F our largest competitors? Yeah!”
How Stitch Fix uses data to sell more clothes, and why CEO Katrina Lake hopes retail has a future
Rep. Adam Schiff on the Mueller investigation, deepfakes, and the dangers posed by Russia and China
Why 2020 presidential candidate Andrew Yang doesn't want to break up Google
Why Senator Michael Bennet believes he can win the presidency in 2020
Mayor Pete Buttigieg on systemic racism, regulating tech, and the divided Democratic Party

Harley-Davidson CEO Matthew Levatich (Live at Code 2019)
Writer Taffy Brodesser-Akner on Gwyneth Paltrow, "Fleishman Is in Trouble," and divorce in the age of Tinder
Journalist Carole Cadwalladr on Facebook, Brexit, and "techno-fascism"
Long-Term Stock Exchange founder Eric Ries (Live at Code 2019)
"Russian Doll" star Natasha Lyonne and Netflix content VP Cindy Holland (Live at Code 2019)
Rockfeller Foundation president Raj Shah and Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon (Live at Code 2019)
Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian (Live at Code 2019)
MIT Media Lab director Joi Ito on the problem with tech people who want to solve problems
Instagram's Adam Mosseri, Facebook's Andrew Bosworth, and former tech insiders on the outside (Live at Code 2019)
Fair Fight Action founder Stacey Abrams and CEO Lauren Groh-Wargo (Live at Code 2019)
RAICES immigration activists Jonathan Ryan and Erika Andiola (Live at Code 2019)
Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy (Live at Code 2019)
Twitter's Vijaya Gadde and Kayvon Beykpour (Live at Code 2019)
The Intercept's Mehdi Hasan on cowardly journalists, liberal racism, and impeaching Trump
CNN's Jim Sciutto: "We're already in a war" with Russia and China
Michele Madansky's new research into sexual harassment in the tech industry
Girls Who Code CEO Reshma Saujani on the real solutions to tech's diversity problems
Susan Hockfield: The real answer to sustainable energy might be a virus-built battery
Investors Mark Cuban and Steve Case and talent agent Scooter Braun (Live)
DuckDuckGo CEO Gabe Weinberg on how Congress (and you) can fix online privacy
Facebook’s former security boss Alex Stamos and Twitter co-founder Ev Williams (Live)
Anand Giridharadas on the phony philanthropy of tech billionaires
Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse on why big banks should get into cryptocurrencies
How “Good to Great” author Jim Collins helped Amazon rescue itself
Preet Bharara on the Mueller report, Constitutional crises and Twitter fatigue
Former Secretary of Defense Ash Carter on surveillance, AI ethics, and how to regulate tech

BONUS: Why Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes wants the government to break it up
Esther Wojcicki on how she raised the CEOs of YouTube and 23andMe
Sam Harris on religion, politics, and making "enemies" online.
Tristan Harris says tech is "downgrading" humanity — but we can fix it
Scott Galloway on love, Chipotle, and the other forms of happiness
How Mayor London Breed wants Big Tech to help fix San Francisco
Trash in space, diversity in STEM and artificial meat at TED 2019
Journalist Julia Angwin on being fired from The Markup, investigating Facebook and data-based news
Why thinking about your death five times a day is good for you
Why tech is "flunking" the diversity test
Ford CTO Ken Washington on self-driving cars, "creepy" AI and hovercrafts
PBS CEO Paula Kerger on how to save public television from budget cuts
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi says tech immunity "could be in jeopardy."
"The Uninhabitable Earth" author David Wallace-Wells says tech is failing on climate change
Meredith Whittaker and Kate Crawford: How AI could change your life
Valerie Jarrett has some advice for Democrats running in 2020
Ashton Applewhite has a manifesto against ageism: "This Chair Rocks"
Backstage Capital founder Arlan Hamilton and Deeds Not Words founder Wendy Davis (live at SXSW)
dtx CEO Tim Armstrong and Poshmark CEO Manish Chandra (live at An Evening With Code Commerce)
Richard Walker: The dark side of prosperity in San Francisco
Margrethe Vestager, European Commissioner for Competition (Live at SXSW 2019)
Senator Amy Klobuchar, 2020 U.S. presidential candidate
Kathy Griffin on the notorious photo that changed her life
YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki on child safety, toxic comments and the Google walkout
Hudson's Bay Company CEO Helena Foulkes on the future of retail stores
Laurene Powell Jobs: Trump's rhetoric is "out of a dictator's playbook"
News Media Alliance CEO David Chavern on the challenges facing the news business
Lora Haddock: Innovative sex toys aren't a joke
The history and future of "net art" with Rhizome artistic director Michael Connor
Shoshana Zuboff: Surveillance capitalism is eroding democracy
IAC chairman Barry Diller: "Hollywood is now irrelevant"
Center for Democracy and Technology CEO Nuala O'Connor on reforming Big Tech
Why "Zucked" author Roger McNamee turned against Facebook
“The Mastermind” author Evan Ratliff on how tech enabled a drug kingpin
Spencer Stuart executive recruiter James Citrin on how to find great CEOs
Early AOL exec Jean Case explains how to "Be Fearless"
"The Job" author Ellen Shell on the increasingly automated future of work
Attorney Laura Wasser on making a "TurboTax for divorce"
Basecamp CEO Jason Fried on overfunded startups and stressful workplaces
Land O'Lakes CEO Beth Ford on farmer-entrepreneurs, "agritech" and Rep. Steve King
EFF boss Cindy Cohn and McSweeney's editor Claire Boyle on digital privacy and "the end of trust"
Glossier CEO Emily Weiss on the "art and science" of the beauty business
CNN.com editor in chief Meredith Artley on digital media and earning the public's trust
99designs CEO Patrick Llewellyn on digitizing creativity
DoorDash CEO Tony Xu and COO Christopher Payne on the future of delivery
Serial Box CEO Molly Barton wants to change how you read
Keith Rabois on innovation, Trump and Saudi Arabia
Why Weight Watchers is now WW
The ups and downs of Reddit's history
How Imgur avoids the ugliness of social media
What's next for Amazon's Alexa? Maybe buying stuff for you automatically.
Four magic words for entrepreneurs: ‘Do your fucking job.’
Why salad chain Sweetgreen thinks like a tech company
How Peter Jackson’s team made WWI footage look new
Ezra Klein and Kara Swisher on the future of journalism
Why it's OK to be analog in a digital world
Should Mark Zuckerberg fire himself?
NBC's Chuck Todd, Andrea Mitchell and Hallie Jackson (Live)
Facebook and Google are “the enemies of independent thought”
Casey Newton and Louie Swisher on social media, video games and 300 Recode Decodes
Silicon Valley loves to break the rules. Is that a good thing?
How disinformation poisoned a ‘Facebook nation’
Undocumented immigrants are people, not political props
After 20,000 workers walked out, Google said it got the message. The workers disagree.
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff on Facebook, homelessness in SF and buying Time
Should the First Amendment apply to Facebook?
Start to Sale: Milk Bar CEO Christina Tosi
Why nonprofits should think more like tech companies
Sally Yates: Donald Trump is trying to corrupt the Justice Department
Data and the future of money in politics with RevUp CEO Steve Spinner
The ‘bad ideas’ that broke American capitalism
Why the New York Times won’t sell itself to a billionaire
Elon Musk on Tesla’s crazy year, dying on Mars and taking Saudi money
'Good and Mad' author Rebecca Traister
'The Fixer' author Bradley Tusk
Hillary Clinton
'Positive Populism' author Steve Hilton
'Will & Grace' co-star Sean Hayes
23andMe CEO Anne Wojcicki
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti
AnchorFree CEO David Gorodyansky
2U CEO Chip Paucek
Pivot: Google's data breach, Facebook Portal and Taylor Swift
Former Cisco CEO John Chambers
'Sorry to Bother You' director Boots Riley
Rep. Ro Khanna explains his internet bill of rights
'Winners Take All' author Anand Giridharadas
'Full Frontal' host Samantha Bee
Square CFO Sarah Friar and Instacart CEO Apoorva Mehta
Jawbone Health CEO Hosain Rahman
BONUS: Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom in 2017
World Bank Group president Jim Yong Kim
The NYT's Maggie Haberman, HuffPost's Lydia Polgreen and actor Jane Lynch
'Swiped' director Nancy Jo Sales
'AI Superpowers' author Kai-Fu Lee
Nicole Wong, former deputy CTO of the United States
'Big Game' author Mark Leibovich
Slack chief product officer April Underwood
Sleeping Giants founder Matt Rivitz
U.S. Justice Department antitrust lawyer Makan Delrahim
'Temp' author Louis Hyman
Maker Faire founder Dale Dougherty and Make Magazine editor Mike Senese
Haystack founder Semil Shah
Senator Ron Wyden
'High Growth Handbook' author Elad Gil
Andrew Moore, dean of Carnegie Mellon's School of Computer Science
Glassdoor CEO Robert Hohman
Dr. Jen Gunter, OB/GYN and the internet's favorite Goop critic
BONUS: Uber Eats boss Jason Droege
Sidecar co-founder Sunil Paul
Grab co-founder Hooi Ling Tan
'General Magic' directors Sarah Kerruish and Matt Maude
'The Billionaire Raj' author James Crabtree
WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg
'Valley of Genius' author Adam Fisher
Alibaba exec Joe Tsai (Live at Code 2018)
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg: The Kara Swisher interview
How social media bots could tank your stock price
Tinder parent company Match Group prepares for battle with Facebook
Why do some in the tech community support universal basic income? They're 'terrified' about the future.
Why Craigslist founder Craig Newmark is donating millions for journalism
Box CEO Aaron Levie talks tech regulation and the future of jobs
Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky (Live at Code 2018)
Matt Cutts: Why more tech workers should come to D.C.
Psychologist Adam Grant: Your company’s culture isn’t unique
How Nat Geo uses Instagram to stay relevant
How Silicon Valley is responding to the immigration crisis
Microsoft President Brad Smith (Live at Code 2018)
Tom Peters, management expert and author of ‘The Excellence Dividend’
Michael Barbaro, host of the New York Times podcast The Daily (Live)
Stitch Fix CEO Katrina Lake (Live at Code 2018)
Linda McMahon, U.S. Small Business Administrator (Live at Code 2018)
U.S. Senator Mark Warner (Live at Code 2018)
How tech can fix its diversity problem: The Code 2018 panel
From Ben Franklin to Google: Jessica Weisberg traces the history of advice in ‘Asking for a Friend’
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi (Live at Code 2018)
Snap CEO Evan Spiegel (Live at Code 2018)
How to save American jobs in the age of disruption
General Michael Hayden on Donald Trump’s ‘assault on intelligence’
Congressman Ro Khanna: We need an 'internet bill of rights'
How to succeed in tech: Be lucky and ruthless
John Carreyrou on lies and 'Bad Blood' at Theranos
Recode Media: Robin Williams biographer Dave Itzkoff
Michael Pollan: LSD and other psychedelics inspired some of Silicon Valley’s greatest inventions
John Doerr: How to run your company like Bill Gates or Bono
How 'Microtrends' affect everything, from marriage to Trump
Tech execs are ‘weenies,’ Patagonia CEO Rose Marcario says
Why 'Lean In: The Movie' didn't happen (Nell Scovell, author, 'Just the Funny Parts')
José Andrés on feeding Puerto Rico and the 'power of food' (Live)
Ronan Farrow on ‘War on Peace,’ Harvey Weinstein and winning a Pulitzer
Sally Kohn on 'The Opposite of Hate,' Fox News and Joy Reid
New York Times tech columnist Farhad Manjoo explains the 'Frightful Five'
Silicon Valley’s first disruptors (John Hennessy and Dave Patterson, winners, 2017 Turing Award)
The dark side of dating apps (Joanna Coles, author, 'Love Rules')
The ‘invisible startups’ of LA Tech (Mark Suster, managing partner, Upfront Ventures)
BlackBerry CEO John Chen wants somebody to make a new BlackBerry
Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman: Silicon Valley has 'lost its purpose'
Hillary Clinton advisor and "Dear Madam President" author Jennifer Palmieri

Apple CEO Tim Cook: The uncut 'Revolution' interview
Google CEO Sundar Pichai and YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki (Live)
Former White House advisor Valerie Jarrett: Trump won. What now?
Maria Shriver and Christina Schwarzenegger discuss 'Take Your Pills'
Flying cars are the future of military transportation
What men and women need to know about working together
Therapist Esther Perel: Tinder and Instagram are 'crippling' our relationships
Anthony 'The Mooch' Scaramucci: Trump has secret admirers in Silicon Valley
CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on sex, #MeToo and North Korea (Live from SXSW)
Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes: Why guaranteed income makes sense
Sen. Chuck Schumer on Amazon, net neutrality and the 2018 midterms
Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg on techlash and #MeToo (Live)
Is 'Uber meets Harvard' the future of learning?
Why Katie Couric left Yahoo
Can an alt-weekly newspaper survive in 2018?
What’s missing from the startup ecosystem? (Jennifer Fonstad, co-founder, Aspect Ventures)
Why cryptocurrencies matter (Sarah Tavel, partner, Benchmark)
HuffPost editor in chief Lydia Polgreen (Live at Code Media 2018)
YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki (Live at Code Media 2018)
How VR can change your brain (Jeremy Bailenson, author, 'Experience on Demand')
What Abraham Lincoln and Rachel Carson can teach us about leadership
How to fix Silicon Valley's 'Brotopia'
Tech is now a weapon for propaganda (Dipayan Ghosh and Ben Scott, co-authors, ‘Digital Deceit’)
Social media can't surprise us anymore (Chuck Todd, moderator, 'Meet the Press')
What's funny about Trump? (Alexandra Petri, columnist, the Washington Post)
How to fix the problems caused by tech (Andrew Keen, author, 'How to Fix the Future')
Where’s the money in online comedy? (Gregg Spiridellis, CEO, JibJab)
Sex, the internet and the 1990s (David Friend, author, ‘The Naughty Nineties’)
I quit Google to be a comedian (Sarah Cooper, author, "100 Tricks To Appear Smart in Meetings”)
How to fix your company's culture (Patty McCord, author, "Powerful")
Silicon Valley can't take a joke (Dick Costolo, CEO, Chorus)
Kara Swisher visits the Longform Podcast (Live)
Why Grindr started a magazine (Zach Stafford and Trish Bendix, editors, Into)
Uber's Tony West and Eric Holder on exposing wrongdoing (Live)
Sports columnist Christine Brennan previews her 18th consecutive Olympics
Bitcoin is just getting started (Megan Quinn, general partner, Spark Capital)
Silicon Valley is threatening democracy (Noam Cohen, author, 'The Know-It-Alls')
The future of the audio industry (Andrew Mason, CEO, Descript)
Kara Swisher visits Pod Save America (Live)
Elon Musk was once like you (Daniel Gross, partner, Y Combinator)
The amazing stories of Silicon Valley's 'Troublemakers' (Leslie Berlin, historian, Stanford University)
Margrethe Vestager: 'This is the biggest wake-up call we've ever had'
How Reid Hoffman would fix social media (Live)
Greta Van Susteren is not giving up on social media
Why magazine mogul Tina Brown is 'angry and upset' at Google and Facebook
How tech is changing state politics (Stacey Abrams, candidate for governor, Georgia)
How to fight extremism online (Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO, Anti-Defamation League)
Journalists covering Trump need to ‘tone it down’ (Katy Tur, author, ‘Unbelievable.’)
A 'magical formula' for better decision-making (Ray Dalio, author, 'Principles: Life and Work')
Silicon Valley's D.C. showdown, explained (Luther Lowe, Yelp; Beth Wilkinson, Wilkinson Walsh Eskovitz)
Why I'm not afraid of Amazon (David Rosenblatt, CEO, 1stdibs)
Can Silicon Valley get its mojo back? (Live)
What Leonardo da Vinci can teach us about tech (Walter Isaacson, author, 'Leonardo da Vinci')
Tech elites are heading for a 'big backlash' (Tim O'Reilly, author, 'WTF?')
Why the 'Google memo' author had to be fired (Susan Wojcicki, CEO, YouTube)
Broadcast TV is not dead (Ilene Chaiken, showrunner, ‘Empire’)
Why Shonda Rhimes left ABC for Netflix (Live)
Jared Leto on playing a tech trillionaire in 'Blade Runner 2049'
“Free speech” is cheap (Ellen Pao, author, “Reset”)
God, the Washington Post and the meaning of life (Sally Quinn, author, "Finding Magic")
Donald Trump, explained (Maggie Haberman, New York Times, and David Fahrenthold, Washington Post)
Why one investor is 'cringing' at tech IPOs (Maha Ibrahim, general partner, Canaan)
What Amazon should buy next (Scott Galloway, author, “The Four”)
The race for self-driving cars is on (Chris Urmson, CEO, Aurora)
Venture capital is headed for a ‘huge, rude awakening' (Chamath Palihapitiya, CEO, Social Capital)
The future of tech jobs in coal country
Lyft will always have human drivers (Taggart Matthiesen, director of product, Lyft)
You don't have to lead like Steve Jobs (Chris Kuenne and John Danner, authors, 'Built for Growth')
What tech gets wrong about harassment (Erica Baker, director of engineering, Kickstarter; Sarah Kunst, CEO, ProDay)
How Uber is trying to fix itself (Frances Frei, SVP of leadership and strategy, Uber)
Government should fight tech’s ‘corporate villainy’ (Cory Booker, U.S. Senator)
How humans and AI can work together (Tolga Kurtoglu, CEO, PARC)
What Russians really think of America (Lisa Dickey, author, 'Bears in the Streets')
Silicon Valley should think like Spider-Man (Reid Hoffman, partner, Greylock)
Uber can change (Adam Lashinsky, author, 'Wild Ride')
Cecile Richards, president, Planned Parenthood Federation of America (Code Conference 2017)
How to shift a big tech company to the cloud (Mark Hurd, co-CEO, Oracle)
Jill Soloway, creator, 'Transparent' (Code Conference 2017)
Google is God, Facebook is love and Amazon will be worth $1 trillion (Scott Galloway, founder, L2)
Hillary Clinton, former U.S. Secretary of State (Code Conference 2017)
Did Instagram copy Snapchat? (Kevin Systrom, CEO, Instagram)
Why cute robots are important for the entire tech industry (Boris Sofman, CEO, Anki)
Can Facebook help you talk to businesses? (David Marcus, VP of Messaging, Facebook)
America's immigration policies are hurting startups (Patrick Collison, CEO, Stripe)
Behind the scenes of 'The Handmaid's Tale'
Sheryl Sandberg on setbacks, grief and 'Option B'
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai: We need a 'lighter touch' to internet regulation
How 'Dear Evan Hansen' brought social media to Broadway
How 'Silicon Valley' stays current (Mike Judge, Thomas Middleditch, Kumail Nanijani and more)
'Silicon Valley’ is more than ‘d*ck jokes’ (Matt Ross, actor/director)
How tech can reshape American politics (Steve Hilton, CEO, Crowdpac)
Rep. Ro Khanna: Silicon Valley should give back to all Americans
Diversity isn't an 'add-on' (Laura Weidman Powers, CEO, Code2040)
Why CEOs need to stand up to Trump (Bijan Sabet, general partner, Spark Capital)
Nextdoor CEO Nirav Tolia talks about adversity and Uber CEO Travis Kalanick
Don’t have anything nice to say? Say it! (Kim Malone Scott, author, ‘Radical Candor’)
What tech can do about homelessness (Daniel Lurie, CEO, Tipping Point Community)

How HBO's 'Veep' is reacting to Trump (Live at SXSW)
Crooked Media founders: We're podcasting the Trump resistance (Live at SXSW)
Who's buying whom in media and tech (Quincy Smith, partner, Code Advisors)
How to beat Amazon (Ron Johnson, CEO, Enjoy)
The internet must be preserved (Brewster Kahle, chairman, The Internet Archive)
How to make social media sane again (Sue Decker, Raftr founder, and Michael Dearing, investor)
Silicon Valley is 'an isolated bubble' (Jeremy Liew, partner, Lightspeed Venture Partners)
Uber's looming 'existential crisis' (Brad Stone, author, 'The Upstarts’)
Countries that fear immigrants are killing innovation (Rolf Schrömgens, co-founder, Trivago)
Facebook's News Feed is like junk food (Mike McCue, CEO, Flipboard)
BONUS: 'Fun Home' author Alison Bechdel thought a fan was her Uber
We need robots to take our jobs (John Markoff, ex-reporter, The New York Times)
How you get addicted to apps (Tristan Harris, founder, Time Well Spent)
Social media makes us miserable (Tim Ferriss, author, "Tools of Titans")
Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx: The exit interview
You don't need to own all your clothes (Jennifer Hyman, CEO, Rent the Runway)
Doctors should think like mechanics (Othman Laraki, CEO, Color)
Can social media bring us together again after ripping us apart? (Orkut Büyükkökten, Founder, Hello)
Tom Friedman: The internet is an 'open sewer’
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman: A 'toxic minority' ruins social media for everyone
Wearables can save your life (Vic Gundotra, CEO, AliveCor)
What Trump means for tech (Hilary Rosen and Juleanna Glover, political consultants)
Satirizing Silicon Valley: 'I wanted to hit a nerve,' says Sunil Rajaraman
How Kayak co-founder Paul English got hit by a ‘truck full of money’
U.S. Chief Data Scientist DJ Patil: Data can help everyone
How does tech fix its diversity problem?
Foursquare wants to make 'Her' a reality (Dennis Crowley and Jeff Glueck, co-founder and CEO, Foursquare)
How Time Warner ruined AOL (Ted Leonsis, Founder, Revolution Growth)
'Mr. Robot' creator Sam Esmail: Hackers are more interesting than hacking
Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker: How to stop AI from stealing jobs
Why Ashton Kutcher didn't invest in Snapchat
'Iron Man' director Jon Favreau on pushing virtual reality to the limit
'The Late Late Show' host James Corden hates 'the cloud'

Stop saying "good guy" in the boardroom (Aileen Lee, managing partner, Cowboy Ventures)
How Uber fought city hall — and won (Bradley Tusk, CEO, Tusk Holdings)
Google and Apple need limits (Margrethe Vestager, Commissioner for Competition, European Commission)
Behind the scenes of Pokémon Go (John Hanke, CEO, Niantic)
Benchmark partner Bill Gurley: Too much money is my biggest problem
Why everyone should talk about diversity (Stacy Brown-Philpot, CEO, TaskRabbit)
Quip CEO Bret Taylor: Companies die when they're afraid to fail
Disrupting health and beauty (Tristan Walker, CEO, Walker & Company)
Tech in Australia: Building "pathways to Silicon Valley" (Mike Cannon-Brookes, co-CEO, Atlassian)
Wall Street is ignoring women (Sallie Krawcheck, CEO, Ellevest)
Why did Yahoo sell to Verizon? (Eric Jackson, activist investor, Yahoo)
"Chaos Monkeys" author Antonio García-Martinez: Silicon Valley isn’t a nice place
The future of home exercise (Peloton CTO Yony Feng)
"Hamilton" producer Jeffrey Seller: Tech can't beat live theater
Behind the scenes of the Rio 2016 Olympics (Gary Zenkel, President, NBC Olympics)
Let's reverse-engineer the brain (Donna Dubinsky and Jeff Hawkins, co-founders, Numenta)
The college lecture may go extinct (Daphne Koller, president, Coursera)
Chelsea Handler is done with old-school TV
Kim Kardashian: If my naked selfies offend you, don't look at them
LeBron James's business manager, Maverick Carter, on sports stardom
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon: I get why people hate banks, but ...

Rep. Nancy Pelosi: "I guarantee it," Trump will fail
Walt Mossberg says tech is still too hard to use
"When women fail, we all fail," says Deeds Not Words' Wendy Davis
Keith Rabois says winter is coming for wasteful startups
Steve Case’s “Third Wave”: Startups In Every State and the Internet In Everything
"The Eyewear Industry Is Kind of Messed Up" (Dave Gilboa and Neil Blumenthal, co-CEOs, Warby Parker)
You're in Charge of Your Own DNA (Anne Wojcicki, CEO, 23andMe)
Wall Street Doesn't 'Get' Online Lending ... Yet. (Renaud Laplanche, CEO, Lending Club)
"Rich Douchebags" Shouldn't Get Tech's Wealth (Chamath Palihapitiya, Investor, Social Capital)
You Can Be Hacked From Anywhere (Orion Hindawi, CEO, Tanium)
Ash Carter, United States Secretary of Defense
Sam Shank, CEO, HotelTonight
Gavin Newsom, Lieutenant Governor, California
Hadi Partovi, CEO, Code.org
Andrew Jarecki, "The Jinx" Director
Mike Cagney, CEO, SoFi
Chet Kanojia, Starry CEO
Eric Weiner, Author of "The Geography of Genius"
Nick Denton, Gawker Media Founder, and Jason Epstein, Investor
John Zimmer, Lyft President
Shani Hilton, BuzzFeed Executive Editor of News
Max Levchin, Affirm CEO
Chris Altchek, Mic CEO
Trae Vassallo and Michele Madansky, Co-Authors, "The Elephant in the Valley"
Albert Wenger, Union Square Ventures Partner
Happy Re/New Year 2016; CES Preview
Rufus Griscom, Heleo CEO
Niccolo de Masi, Glu CEO; Top Gadgets of 2015
Ev Williams, Medium CEO
Jeremy Stoppelman, Yelp CEO; Virtual Reality Shenanigans
Katie Nolan, Fox Sports TV Host
Marc Lore, Jet.com CEO; Apple's Ugly Battery Case
Brian Rolapp, NFL Media Czar
Dick Costolo, Former Twitter CEO; Hoverboards
Ricky Van Veen, CollegeHumor Co-Founder
Brian Chesky, Airbnb CEO; Holiday Gift Guide
B.J. Novak and Dev Flaherty, The List App Co-Founders; iPad Pro
Brent Bushnell and Eric Gradman, Two Bit Circus Co-Founders; New BlackBerries
Aaron Levie, Box CEO; Android vs. iOS
Sequoia Capital Chairman Sir Michael Moritz, Food Delivery Services
Huffington Post Editor in Chief Arianna Huffington, 4K TVs
Betaworks CEO and co-founder John Borthwick, TV streaming boxes and daily fantasy
Ericsson CEO Hans Vestberg, Code/Mobile and Google search
White House Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett, TV streaming and Twitter
Lenny newsletter co-founders Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner
Microsoft EVP Peggy Johnson, digital media and car tech
Buzzfeed founder Jonah Peretti, Apple announcements and e-payments
LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner, productivity apps and wearables
Marc Andreessen, investor and entrepreneur
Ex-Googler Erica Baker, drone do's and don'ts and car tech
Twitter legal boss Vijaya Gadde, Apple's fall lineup and tech industry aging
Investor Chris Sacca, smartphone prices and "buy" buttons
"Million Dollar Listing" star Roh Habibi, Snapchat and race in tech
Andreessen Horowitz GP Chris Dixon, Windows 10 and hacking cars
Y Combinator's Sam Altman, the Internet of Things and Google
Elon Musk biographer Ashlee Vance, photo apps and Reddit
Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield, Apple Music

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