In this revelatory talk, technologist Kayvon Tehranian explores why NFTs -- digital assets that represent a certificate of ownership on the internet -- are a technological breakthrough. Learn how NFTs are putting power and economic control back into the hands of digital creators -- and pushing forward the internet's next evolution.

Robert Legato, ASC, an award-winning cinematographer, and visual effects supervisor.

The HUGE lesson I learned working in Silicon Valley

Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about how coronavirus changed everything for Slack and its customers, the sudden transition to "work from home" across the country, and how the company is handling a surge in usage at the same time that other plans and resources are being constrained.

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Co-CEO Reed Hastings discusses his new book, No Rules Rules (co-written by culture expert Erin Meyer), which pulls back the curtain on Netflix’s work culture including his thoughts on the first days of Netflix, how candor leads to excellence, streaming competition, and reflections on the infamous Qwikster decision.

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“Dolemite Is My Name” Editor Billy Fox, ACE

October 29, 2019

096 FCPRadio 096 - FCPX 10.5, the Summit, Hollywood & more with Michael Cioni

The surprising habits of original thinkers | Adam Grant

Casascius Coin Creator Mike Caldwell on making Bitcoin meaningful for the masses

The Art of the Cut Podcast Eps. 1 (w/Detective Pikachu Editor Mark Sanger)

485: WWDC and Interview with the Mac Pro Product Manager

252: ‘The Dustin Egress Problem’, With Cabel Sasser, Steven Frank, and Greg Maletic From Panic

May 30, 2019

IAC chairman Barry Diller: “Hollywood is now irrelevant”

How does Hollywood choose what stories get told on-screen? Too often, it’s groupthink informed by a narrow set of ideas about what sells at the box office. As a producer, Franklin Leonard saw too many great screenplays never get made because they didn’t fit the mold. So he started the Black List, an anonymous email that shared his favorite screenplays and asked: Why aren’t we making these movies? Learn the origin story of some of your favorite films with this fascinating insider view of the movie business.

Quincy Larson interviews Lyle Troxell, who’s a senior software engineer at Netflix. Lyle has hosted his own technology radio show for the past 18 years, and now he hosts the official Netflix podcast, too. He also built Steve Wozniak’s personal website.

Niels van Hoorn of Framer joins John to talk about prototyping, experimentation and learning new technologies. When and how to use prototypes, trying out new frameworks and techniques, the value of building your own tools and much more. This episode of Swift by Sundell was made possible thanks to AppSpector - a brand new developer tool that lets you inspect and debug your app completely remotely. Check it out and get started for free at appspector.com/sundell.

Netflix changed the world of entertainment — first with DVD-by-mail, then with streaming media and then again with sensational original shows like “Orange Is the New Black” and “Stranger Things” — but not without taking its fair share of risks. In conversation with TED curator Chris Anderson, Netflix co-founder and CEO Reed Hastings discusses the company’s bold internal culture, the powerful algorithm that fuels their recommendations, the $8 billion worth of content they’re investing in this year and his philanthropic pursuits supporting innovative education, among much more.

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March 5, 2018 

Nishant Shukla is the author of Machine Learning in TensorFlow, and is also the VP of Engineering at a startup focussing on Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies for education. In this episode, he discusses the basics of machine learning. Learn more about his book at http://tensorflowbook.com/

February 15, 2018 

John August (writer, screenwriter) talks to Chris about his movie Go, how they met back in the day and how he develops characters. He also talks about the process of writing a movie and getting it made, he gives advice to aspiring writers and talks about is new novel “Arlo Finch in the Valley of Fire” and his new podcast Launch on Wondery! 

November 13, 2017 

Andreas M. Antonopoulos is the author of Mastering Bitcoin (O’Reilly). We discuss the separation of state and money, how bitcoin is the worlds first trust protocol, how mining works, looking at bitcoin from a global perspective, what happens to bitcoin once we have quantum computing, and much more.

October 11, 2017 

Jason Blum (Blumhouse Productions) talks to Chris and Jonah about growing up in LA, how they were bullied as kids and reconnecting with their bullies as adults. Jason also talks about the politics of making horror films, how he got into it and his new…

April 26, 2017 

The creators and most of the cast of HBO’s ‘Silicon Valley’ talk with Recode’s Kara Swisher in this live interview, recorded in San Francisco after the premiere of the first two episodes of Season Four. Executive Producer Mike Judge talks about the challenge of staying relevant and topical when the show is written and filmed so far ahead of when it airs; star Thomas Middleditch, who plays Pied Piper founder Richard Hendricks, says the past year has made him apprehensive about privacy, data collection and social media algorithms; and costar Amanda Crew, who plays venture capitalist Monica Hall, talks about investing in real tech companies with female founders. Also: Kumail Nanjiani, who plays Dinesh Chugtai, begs for free Apple products.

September 13, 2017

Max Brooks returns to the Nerdist podcast! They talk about how Max’s dad likes to exchange dirty jokes with his Max’s son, listening to manual audio books and Chris teaches him how to use Twitter. They also talk about Max’s newest book Minecraft…

September 15, 2017

Behind almost all popular music, there is this hidden economy of music producers buying and selling sonic snippets, texting each other half-finished beats, and angling for back-end royalties.

September 13, 2017

Patty McCord helped create a workplace at Netflix that runs more like a professional sports team than a family. If you’re not up to scratch, you’re off the team. Is this the future of work?

March 15, 2017 

Danny Boyle (director, Slumdog Millionaire, Trainspotting) talks to Chris about avoiding spoilers in movies, the artistic aspect of all his films and making Trainspotting when he was younger. He then talks about T2…

October 9, 2017 

ShondaLand CEO Shonda Rhimes, the TV producer behind hits like “Grey’s Anatomy,” “Scandal” and “How to Get Away With Murder,” talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher at the 2017 Vanity Fair New Establishment Summit. Rhimes says she took a four-year exclusive deal with Netflix because it offers her more creative freedom and new challenges, although her six existing shows will continue at ABC. She also talks about how she chooses who she hires, her amazement at people in Hollywood who don’t understand diversity and why she has backed off of social media. Plus: Why ShondaLand.com has started offering magazine-like articles, including interviews with people like Michelle Obama and Billie Jean King.

February 6, 2017

“Allegedly” takes on the New York Times Best Seller list for the first time when award winning thriller writer, children’s writer, comic book writer, and Ted Talk-er Brad Meltzer sits down to discuss his new children’s book “I Am Jim Henson”. Find out which writers are too big for their own britches (not you Judy Blume)… which Kardashian he’d never write a book about… and what the award winning “Justice League” writer thinks about the upcoming movie version of the iconic comic. It’s our most intellectual “Allegedly” yet, but but let’s be serious, he just hires children in Nicaragua to write his novels these days (no seriously, he said it…).

February 27, 2016 

To close out the first night of Code/Media 2016, Peter Kafka and Kara Swisher sit down with Shane Smith, the founder and CEO of Vice Media, and Spike Jonze, the co-president of Viceland. They discuss why Vice is launching a cable channel and how it’s trying to make its mark with diverse, “edgy” content such as a new show hosted by Ellen Page called “Gaycation,” and news tailor-made for Generation Y.

March 26, 2016

Chris moderated a Periscope conversation with the founders of Twitter for the 10th anniversary up in San Francisco! He talks to Jack Dorsey, Ev Williams and Biz Stone about the idea behind Twitter, how it has changed the…

May 26, 2017

Ben and James discuss myths, culture, and blockchains — and yes, bubbles. NOTE: The original version had a corrupted file. Our apologies. Presented by MailChimp Links Ben Thompson: Tulips, Myths, and Cryptocurrencies — Stratechery Abhishek Chakravarty: The Product Manager’s guide to the Blockchain  — Medium Yuval Noah Harari: Sapiens Fred Ehrsam: Blockchain Tokens and the dawn of the Decentralized Business Model — Coinbase Blog Greeks are Rushing to Bitcoin — CNN Facebook accused of targeting ‘insecure’ children and young people, report says — Mashable Ben Thompson: The Cost of Bitcoin — Stratechery Ben Thompson: Selling Feelings — Stratechery Hosts Ben Thompson, … Continue reading Episode 116 — Blockchain Beauty Contest

January 6, 2016

On today’s Planet Money, the complex economy of one elementary-school lunchroom.

March 18, 2016

We talk to a professional poker player who lost on the first day of poker’s most famous tournament—but went on to get a huge payout. Turns out there’s a game behind the game.

April 20, 2016

We talk to Kid Rock about how he tried to cut scalpers out of the business — and still sell cheap tickets to his shows.

December 2, 2016

We track down a fake-news creator in the suburbs, uncover his empire of fake-news sites, and get him to tell us his secrets.

March 17, 2016

What does it take to change the world? Do you have to be president of one of the world’s most powerful countries? Or a high-powered lawyer fighting injustice? Or can it be as simple as changing the way people communicate with one another?

June 7, 2016

Don Melton, former Director of Internet Technologies at Apple, and Nitin Ganatra, former Director of iOS Apps at Apple, talk to Guy and Rene about handling transitions, taking Mozilla open-source, going to OS X, going to Intel, going to iOS, and saying “no”.

June 13, 2016

Ashley Nelson-Hornstein, formerly of Apple and Dropbox, joins Guy and Rene to talk about making everything more accessible, going independent, and what happens next.

March 14, 2016

Tanium CEO Orion Hindawi talks with Re/code’s Arik Hesseldahl about why it’s easier than ever for hackers to strike at companies and governments, and why those who cling to obsolete security solutions are putting everyone at risk. Hindawi says we’re hearing about more security breaches, but that doesn’t necessarily mean more are happening. Plus: Why the coconut-water-drinking corporate culture in Silicon Valley is wasteful, irresponsible and headed for a fall.

March 21, 2016

Social Capital founder Chamath Palihapitiya talks with Kara Swisher about working on Winamp, AOL Instant Messenger and Facebook before becoming an outspoken investor. In today’s Silicon Valley, he says, old investment firms are dying and the next hundred-billion-dollar companies will be more diverse and open-minded. He also evaluates Twitter, Yahoo and the racial animosity of Donald Trump.

October 12, 2016

Jon Favreau, the actor and director known for films such as “Swingers,” “Iron Man” and “The Jungle Book,” talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher about his new efforts in virtual reality, starting with the interactive short film “Gnomes & Goblins.” Favreau says that VR is a powerful artists’ tool, but advances in digital filmmaking won’t replace actors, or the need for fundamental storytelling skills. He hopes to use virtual reality to create powerful connections between the viewer and virtual characters, and explains how other tech trends like Netflix have changed Hollywood forever.

October 17, 2016

Actor, producer and investor Ashton Kutcher talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher about his life as both a TV star and a tech obsessive. Kutcher, who starred in shows like “Two and a Half Men” and “That ’70s Show,” has invested over the past five years in companies like Uber, Airbnb and Square. But he passed on Snapchat — twice — because he hated the app’s design and feared what would happen when it got hacked. He’s currently starring in the Netflix sitcom “The Ranch,” and says denying the rise of digital media platforms in Hollywood is like denying climate change.

May 19, 2016

Jason Hirschhorn talks with Peter Kafka about his past jobs at Viacom, Dish Network and MySpace and at his new startup Redef. Expanding on the Redef Media email newsletter, which Hirschhorn started in 2006, Redef now has more than 50,000 subscribers in several industries, including music, fashion and sports. He also talks (in great detail) about his quadruple bypass surgery and how Redef’s fans saved his life when his doctors were confounded by complications.

October 11, 2016

Josh Tyrangiel, executive vice president for content and news at Vice, talks with Recode’s Peter Kafka about the company’s new weeknightly TV show, “Vice News Tonight” on HBO. To distance itself from traditional newscasts run for decades by the likes of CBS, ABC and NBC, Vice is doing away with a central news desk and news anchor, focusing instead on finding visual ways to tell stories that may get short shrift elsewhere. The big goal: Get millennials watching, which Tyrangiel says can be done so long as “Vice News Tonight” adds value to young people’s lives.

April 20, 2017

Author Neil Gaiman talks with Recode’s Peter Kafka about the TV adaptation of his novel ‘American Gods,’ which debuts April 30 on Starz. Gaiman says ‘American Gods’ is a ‘big, sprawling’ story that could have never been made when the book came out, in 2001 — the rise of prestige TV and consumers’ online binging habits made it possible. He also talks about working in comics, what he thinks of President Trump, and why he’s fascinated by — but not making content for — VR.

February 17, 2016

To kick off our Code/Media 2016 conference, Cosmopolitan Editor in Chief Joanna Coles talks with Kara Swisher about why Cosmo still makes a magazine and whether the print version would ever go away. They also debate if Snapchat represents the future of media and what effect virtual reality pornography will have on society.

June 1, 2016

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos talks with The Verge’s Walt Mossberg about the “gigantic” potential of artificial intelligence to change everything from shopping to self-driving cars. Bezos also discusses his purchase of the Washington Post in 2013, which he says is transforming from a local to a global institution. He explains why he opposes both Peter Thiel’s campaign against Gawker Media and Donald Trump’s attempts to “freeze or chill” press scrutiny. Plus: Why Bezos’s other company, Blue Origin, is trying to lower the cost of entrepreneurship in space.

June 1, 2017

Recode co-founder and The Verge executive editor Walt Mossberg talks with former Twitter CEO Dick Costolo about his 26-year career in tech journalism. Mossberg recounts stories about meetings with executives like Apple’s Steve Jobs and Microsoft’s Bill Gates and how much has changed between his first Personal Technology column in 1991 and his final column in May.

June 10, 2016

Munchery CEO Tri Tran talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher and The Verge’s Lauren Goode about running a San Francisco-based company that cooks and delivers thousands of restaurant-style meals every day. He discusses what Munchery thinks about big new competitors like Amazon and Uber and says it plans to become more transparent soon about where its food comes from. Kara, Lauren and Tri answer your questions about food delivery startups, including how they make money.

July 1, 2016

Bloomberg Beta partner James Cham talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher and Mark Bergen about why artificial intelligence is hot again and whether we’re at risk of another “AI winter” in which investment dries up. Cham explains some common terms from the field, such as “machine learning” and “computer vision,” and wonders if consumers will opt to take more control of the personal data that AI companies need. He, Kara and Mark answer questions from our readers and listeners about artificial intelligence and the famous Turing Test, which measures whether a computer can pass for human intelligence.

April 19, 2016

The value of a WWDC ticket — or going to San Francisco without one.

February 14, 2016

Producer, writer, DJ, comedian, and American satirist Jake Fogelnest sits down with Josh for a psychedelic, high-energy trip down memory lane. The Wet Hot American Summer, Billy On The Street, and Difficult People collaborator discusses what it’s like to have your own talk show at age 14, getting MTV to decorate your bedroom, and the terrible rudeness of Twitter. Also covered: Kids, Kids, and Teens. If you miss this one, you’re telling the world you don’t enjoy fun.

May 16, 2016

By popular demand, Jason and Myke talk a bit more about the business of podcasting, as they’re joined by podcaster and podcast ad sales executive Lex Friedman.

August 14, 2017

Why automation—on macOS and iOS—is important.

March 28, 2016

Director Saman Kesh loves videos games…

August 30, 2016 

The new TV show ‘Atlanta,’ coming to FX in September, was born from…

January 5, 2016 

Jason Alexander (Seinfeld) talks to Chris and Matt about his son’s comedy duo, how he got his start acting and what he thought of Seinfeld when it first started. He also talks about being typecasted as George Costanza, doing live…

January 19, 2016 

Will Sasso (MADtv, Ten Minute Podcast) chats with Chris and special guest co-host April Richardson about being flagged on Instagram, what he has been up to lately and his time on MADtv. They also talk about The Three Stooges,… 

March 11, 2016 

J.J. Abrams (Bad Robot, Lost, Star Wars: The Force Awakens) and Dan Trachtenberg (Portal: No Escape, The Totally Rad Show) chat with Chris about the first computers they had as kids, how 10 Cloverfield Lane came to be and… 

March 29, 2016 

Sharlto Copley (District 9, Elysium) chats with Chris about the trailer for Hardcore Henry, crowd funding the movie and how he became an actor in South Africa. They also talk about how Sharlto came up with his character in Hardcore… 

April 19, 2016 

Judd Apatow (director, 40 Year Old Virgin, Knocked Up) returns to the Nerdist to chat with Chris, Matt and Jonah about what makes a successful movie in today’s society, how comedy movies have changed since the 80’s and what is was like…

August 30, 2016 

Max Brooks (author, World War Z) talks to Chris, Matt and Jonah about his book World War Z, growing up in L.A. in the 80s, and what his father Mel’s daily routine is. They then get into a deep conversation about world politics, how science…

September 20, 2016 

Neil deGrasse Tyson (astrophysicist, StarTalk) returns to the Nerdist for a fourth time! He and Chris talk about Chris’ appearances on Star Talk, the relationship through art and science and Chris has the idea to bring wrestling to the…

December 31, 2015

James Thomson of DragThing and PCalc fames joins Guy and Rene to talk about that time he was at Apple and Steve Jobs found out he was working from $^%#$ Ireland. And more!

December 28, 2015

Merlin Mann’s frank & candid weekly phone call with John Roderick of The Long Winters

November 5, 2015

Paul Haddad returns to Debug 3 years later to talk to Guy and Rene about Tweetbot 4, watchOS, tvOS, the App Store, and more.