Decoder Creators & Guests

Julia Boorstin is a CNBC's Senior Media & Tech Correspondent.

Kara Swisher is an American progressive technology business journalist and co-founder of technology news website, Recode. In additional to be a journalist and entrepreneur, she is also the host of the podcast "Sway" and co-host of "Pivot"

Nilay Patel is an American lawyer, editor, and journalist best known for his work at technology news websites Engadget and The Verge.

Eric Johnson is the host of Follow Friday and the founder of the podcast consultancy LightningPod. He previously worked at Vox Media, where he produced Recode Decode with Kara Swisher from 2015 to 2020.

Patrick Spence is the CEO at Sonos.

Alex Heath is an editor at The Verge.

Chris Best is the founder & CEO at Substack Inc and previously a co-founder & CTO of Kik.

David Wallace Wells is a journalist.

Andrea Mitchell is an American television journalist, anchor, and commentator for NBC News. She is also the NBC News Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent, and reported on the 2008 presidential election campaign for NBC News broadcasts, including NBC Nightly News.

Jill Lepore is a historian and a Staff Writer at The New Yorker, She writes about history, law, literature, and politics.

Bryan Salesky is the co-founder and CEO of Argo AI.

James O'Toole is an author, and the daniels distinguished professor of business ethics at the University of Denver's Daniels College of Business. His research and writings are in the areas of leadership, ethics, corporate culture, and philosophy.

Kate Crawford is a writer, composer, producer, academic, principal researcher at Microsoft Research (Social Media Collective), co-founder & director of research at the AI Now Institute at NYU, and visiting professor at the MIT Center for Civic Media.

Jim Collins is an adviser to leaders in the business and social sector.

Jason Fried is the co-founder & CEO at Basecamp, the co-author of Rework, Remote: Office Not Required and Getting Real: The Smarter, Faster, Easier Way to Build a Successful Web Application. He writes a regular column for Inc. magazine and is a frequent contributor to Basecamp’s popular blog Signal v. Noise.

London Nicole Breed is an American politician, and 45th mayor of the City and County of San Francisco.

Mia Sato is a journalist. Currently, she is a reporter at The Verge, where she writes about tech platforms and the people who use them.

Michael Masnick is the Founder of Techdirt.

Nadav Goshen is an investor, advisor, entrepreneur, and the president & CEO of MakerBot.