Recode Replay

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Emerson Collective President Laurene Powell Jobs and U.S. Senator Kamala Harris talk with Recode's Kara Swisher about what they're doing to improve opportunities for undocumented young people in America. Jobs says a supermajority of Americans support a path to citizenship for these immigrants and Harris says much of the opposition to them earning a permanent place in the country comes from people who have never met such an immigrant. They also discuss what should be done about economic anxiety across the country, with Harris arguing that the only antidote is to tell the uncomfortable truth: Society is changing and many people in dying professions will need to be retrained. Plus: Why is Jobs investing in media and is Harris going to run for president in 2020? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Conservative politician and former independent presidential candidate Evan McMullin talks with The Verge's Walt Mossberg about what comes next now that Donald Trump is the president and the standard-bearer of the Republican Party. McMullin discusses the 501c4 he co-founded, Stand Up Republic, which is trying to organize a grassroots movement to "defend democracy" and its traditional principles. A former CIA operative, McMullin also talks about why there has been an outpouring of anti-Trump leaks from the intelligence community. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Viacom and CBS Vice Chair Shari Redstone talks with Recode's Peter Kafka about the venture firm she co-founded in 2011, Advancit Capital, and why it operates outside of her other companies. She says her biggest mistake there was not investing in Twitch in 2011 because she thought the video game-streaming company was already too highly valued. Redstone also discusses how content companies like Viacom are facing the challenges of the digital age and why they don't necessarily need to sell themselves off, as Time Warner is trying to do. She says she's not too worried about tech companies like Twitter, Google and Facebook making bids for the rights to NFL games, which CBS has locked up for several years. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Time Warner Chairman and CEO Jeff Bewkes talks with Recode's Peter Kafka about how the company's pending sale to AT&T is faring under President Trump. Bewkes argues that the AT&T deal would help Time Warner get on "equal footing" in the ad business with companies like YouTube, but said he has no plans to add advertising to HBO. He also discusses whether Time Warner-owned CNN has any regrets about how it covered the 2016 presidential campaign and how he evaluates the likely rollback of the FCC's net neutrality rules. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kernel founder Bryan Johnson talks about why he wants to "put a chip in your brain." He says we're enterting a "new era of neuroscience" that will let us understand and use the brain in completely new ways. Reading and writing neural code could control and possibly eliminate disorders such as Parkinson's or depression, Johnson says. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

: "Bears in the Streets" author Lisa Dickey talks about her journeys across the whole of Russia, beginning with a prescient digital camera-enabled trip in 1995, only a few years after the end of the Cold War. Dickey returned in 2005 and 2015, checking in with many of the same people and towns she had visited before. She says the Russian people often feel slighted by America — and yes, most of them really do love President Vladimir Putin as much as the polls say. The way forward, she suggests, is remembering that the country is bigger than its leader. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jill Soloway, the creator of the Amazon TV series "Transparent," talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about their new show, "I Love Dick," which stars Kevin Bacon and Kathryn Hahn. They say Amazon is more hands-off than traditional TV networks and has helped diversify the female characters we see on TV. Soloway's company, Topple Productions, is aimed at disrupting the "white male gaze" and giving power to creators who otherwise might not have it, and they recall how, after losing twice at the Golden Globes, Jeff Bezos encouraged them to keep effecting social change through storytelling.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kogi and LocoL chef and food truck movement co-founder Roy Choi talks with Eater's Helen Rosner about making food with a social mission in mind. He says he and his partner Daniel Patterson want healthy food to be accessible and affordable to the people of Watts and West Oakland, Calif., not just the urban centers where most foodie restaurants are found. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Former U.S. Secretary of State and 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton talks with Recode's Kara Swisher and The Verge's Walt Mossberg about the mistakes she made during the campaign and what she thinks in hindsight about criticism of her private email server and paid speeches to Goldman Sachs. Clinton says "anti-American forces" are continually trying to undermine America's security and unity and that she believes saboteurs from Russia were directly aided by Americans, likely including Donald Trump. She criticizes Facebook's spreading of "fake news" and the eagerness of the media to amplify Trump's message, but also the failures of the Democratic National Committee's "poor" data campaign in 2016 as contributing factors to her defeat. Looking forward, Clinton says she's "hopeful" that Democrats will regain control of the House of Representatives in 2018 and "hold [our] own" in the Senate. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alphabet CFO Ruth Porat talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about how she manages spending on search and "other bets" inside of the Google parent company. Porat says clear data should inform leadership decisions and that investing too little in some areas can be as harmful as investing too much. She explains how and why Alphabet is investing in the smart home, life sciences, cloud computing and self-driving cars. The biggest risk to Google as advertising continues to drive the vast majority of Alphabet's revenue, Porat notes, is "complacency" about what's next. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Ringer CEO Bill Simmons talks with CNBC's Julia Boorstin about his company's new partnership with Vox Media. He says the move will help him focus on creating content across a variety of formats, including podcasts. Simmons also says he's not giving up on Twitter and shares his advice for his former boss, ESPN President John Skipper. (Disclosure: Vox Media owns Recode). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Netflix CEO Reed Hastings talks with Recode's Peter Kafka about the video-streaming platform's continuing push into making original TV and movies. He says current windowing practices, in which movies are exclusively in theaters for a time before they're available in the home, will inevitably go away. Hastings also explains why Netflix has backed off of working in China, why it has no plans to carry sports or ad-supported content and why Netflix is in favor of net neutrality even though the company is so big that it doesn't need it anymore. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers partner Mary Meeker delivers her annual report on global trends in tech usage, media consumption, advertising, investing, M&A and more. Consumers are increasingly going to be taking pictures of — or using their voice to search for — things they used to look for by typing, Meeker says, and she argues that the rise of interactive games has important lessons for the design of all products online. She also discusses how consumers are using mobile devices, on-demand transportation services and payments apps in China and India. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Android co-founder Andy Rubin talks with The Verge's Walt Mossberg about Playground Ventures, the investment firm he founded after leaving Google, which aims to anticipate how machine learning and artificial intelligence would shape a post-mobile world. Rubin discusses his new mobile company, Essential Products, which was developed in Playground's internal design studio and is developing a mobile phone, a home device and a new operating system called Ambient OS. The Essential Phone is designed to talk wirelessly to accessories that will work with other hardware down the line, including a miniature 360-degree camera for capturing VR-ready videos. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Andreessen Horowitz co-founder Marc Andreessen and Greylock partner Reid Hoffman talk with Recode's Kara Swisher about where innovation, corporate responsibility and politics in Silicon Valley are heading. Andreessen pushes back on the idea that mainstream news outlets have more share of the truth than Breitbart News, and Hoffman discusses his progressive political tech initiative Win the Future, which so far has raised "millions" of dollars. Andreessen says his firm is actively investing in bringing tech into three highly regulated and slowly growing segments of the economy — health care, education and construction — while Hoffman is interested in businesses with network effects. They also discuss the impact of new technologies like robots and autonomous vehicles on the world's jobs, and why completely new industries might be created as a result of this technological change. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Time Well Spent Executive Director Tristan Harris talks about how the tech industry manipulates the thoughts, feelings and beliefs of consumers. Harris says the built-in biases of the algorithms that deliver our news and direct our leisure time are being "hijacked" by attention-grabbing tricks and he calls for an ethical re-examination of how this "dangerous future" might be avoided. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ballmer Group co-founder Steve Ballmer talks with Recode's Kara Swisher and Kurt Wagner about USAFacts, his effort to open up data about how federal, state and local governments in the U.S. spend their money. He says he wants the site to be a nonpartisan resource for people looking for a better understanding of how the nation's finances work. He also talks about why, as a large Twitter shareholder, he still believes in the company's ability to turn its strong cultural currency into a real business. As the owner of the Los Angeles Clippers, Ballmer says he's also excited by a new partnership between the Clippers and a firm called Second Spectrum that will augment the game-watching experience. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The New York Times Executive Editor Dean Baquet talks with Recode's Peter Kafka about how the newspaper's journalists are covering President Donald Trump and why there are so many leaks coming out of Washington at the moment. Baquet acknowledges that many journalists, including him, misunderstood the "anger and anti-elitism" that elevated Trump, and defends the hiring of climate skeptic Bret Stephens as an opinion columnist, saying people on the left should be willing to hear him out. He also warns that local news is "verging on a crisis" and smaller outlets around the country may have to be rescued by technologists and philanthropists. Baquet says one of his other goals is figuring out how to update the "voice" of the Times to match the way people talk online. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Walmart eCommerce President and CEO Marc Lore talks with Recode's Jason Del Rey about how Walmart's digital strategy has changed since it purchased Lore's company, Jet.com, for $3 billion last year. He announces that Walmart shoppers will see their in-store purchases reflected in their online account and mobile app shopping list. Under Walmart CEO Doug McMillon, Lore says, Jet is moving faster than ever. It’s resonating with higher-income millennials and attracting higher-end brands to cater to those customers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices