Recode Replay

NBBJ partner Ryan Mullenix and Fuseproject founder Yves Behar talk with Recode's Kara Swisher and Johana Bhuiyan about the changing needs of workers across the country and how new types of offices might reflect that. Mullenix is working with companies like Amazon and Samsung to rethink corporate offices, while Behar is trying to launch co-working spaces, called Canopy, which will be located closer to where people live. Behar says even iconic elements of the office like the conference room should be thrown out because they increase stress and decrease productivity. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Stripe president and co-founder John Collison talks with Recode's Jason Del Rey about what's next for the online payments company, including international expansion and its experiment in machine learning, dubbed "Radar." To help it combat fraud, Stripe shows its users why Radar flagged a certain purchase as untrustworthy. Collison also discusses how he evaluates Apple Pay and Android Pay and why Stripe is interested in emerging technologies like Amazon Alexa. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Forerunner Ventures founder and managing partner Kirsten Green talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about her investments in companies like Dollar Shave Club and Jet.com, which just sold for $1 billion and $3.3 billion, respectively. She says at least five of the e-commerce companies Forerunner invests in have brick-and-mortar stores, and that the visitors to those stores are some of their best customers. Green also discusses how commerce companies and retail stores might compete with Amazon by offering a specialized experience to consumers that Jeff Bezos can't. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hillary for America Chair John Podesta talks with Recode's Kara Swisher and Vox.com's Ezra Klein about presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's strategy for defeating presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump in the 2016 election. Podesta also argues that rival Senator Bernie Sanders has not permanently damaged Clinton's chances and predicts that the campaign will be able to unite Democrats before November. Podesta also discusses the continuing backlash to Clinton's use of a private email server during her tenure as Secretary of State, which he acknowledges has definitely hurt her with some voters. Plus: Why should the government open up its UFO files? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Former General Magic executive Joanna Hoffman, former Aereo CEO Chet Kanojia and Y Combinator partner Dalton Caldwell talk with Recode's Peter Kafka about thier past entrepreneurial efforts that failed. They explain why they failed, with reasons ranging from unready technology to Supreme Court intervention, and how they moved on in different ways. Central to the discussion: How these entrepreneurs and others define what success means for them and whether that definition changes over time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tinder co-founder Sean Rad talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about how being fired and temporarily replaced as CEO helped him learn how to be a better CEO. Now back in the top leadership role, he says Tinder currently has more than one million paying users. Rad notes the dating app is experimenting more with advertising, which is delivered via its same iconic swipe-right or swipe-left mechanism. He explains a new product for groups of friends being tested in Australia called Tinder Social that will start spreading globally soon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Devin Wenig, CEO of eBay, talks with The Verge's Walt Mossberg and Recode's Jason Del Rey about how he's trying to make the online commerce giant less, not more, like Amazon. He says the line between retail and ecommerce is disappearing, noting that the site has 165 million customers with $90 billion worth of goods sold per year. Wenig also discusses why eBay doesn't support Apple Pay and details his fascination with artificial intelligence. Plus: Same-day delivery is not the holy grail for every commerce company.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Gawker Media CEO Nick Denton talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about what happened when he discovered that venture capitalist Peter Thiel was funding a lawsuit against Gawker by the professional wrestler Hulk Hogan. Denton acknowledges that news reporting can damage people's lives, and says Gawker has sometimes overreached, but defends the way his company chooses what to write and publish. He argues that tech billionaires such as Thiel should be held to account for their power and influence over society. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk talks with Recode's Kara Swisher and The Verge's Walt Mossberg about his plans to send a one-way rocket to Mars in 2018. He estimates colonists could start arriving on the Red Planet by 2025. Musk also talks about the proliferation of electric vehicle initiatives that compete with his other company, Tesla, and why autonomous cars will become the norm. He says he doesn't see Google as a competitor, but that "Apple will be more direct." Plus: Why Musk wants more people to have access to the power of artificial intelligence. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Impossible Foods CEO Pat Brown and acclaimed professional chef Dominique Crenn talk with Recode's Peter Kafka about their efforts to change how people think about food. Brown's company has developed a plant-based meat alternative to beef that he says can outperform on taste while also having a substantially smaller impact on the environment. Crenn, meanwhile, chose not to serve any animal meat in her second San Francisco restaurant because of concerns about climate change and the meat industry's excesses. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

TMZ founder Harvey Levin talks with Recode's Kara Swisher and Peter Kafka about the business of fast-paced reporting on the entertainment world. He argues that the line between television and the internet will disappear within the next decade and disputes the notion that Peter Thiel's campaign against Gawker Media is a big deal. Levin also defends the practice of paying for photos and videos, although he says he can't remember the last time TMZ paid for a news tip.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Didi Chuxing CEO Jean Liu and Grab Group CEO Anthony Tan talk with The Verge's Walt Mossberg and Recode's Kara Swisher about operating ride-hailing services in China and Singapore, respectively. Since December, the two companies have partnered with Lyft and one another in what some have called an anti-Uber alliance. They discuss why they still subsidize ride-sharing prices even though they have raised ample cash, including, in Didi's case, $1 billion from Apple. Tan also announces that Lyft's global fleet will now be accessible through Grab's app. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Photographer Helena Price talks about the isolation of being a techie who doesn't look like the white, male, Ivy League-educated stereotype. After seven years in San Francisco, she launched a project to photograph the often unseen faces of the U.S. tech industry. Price hopes her photo project, Techies, will inspire people who do fit the stereotype to reconsider if tech is really the meritocracy they believe it to be. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about how he's trying to evolve Cisco beyond its hardware roots to a business driven by software and online services. No one company can do everything, Robbins says, which is why he has partnered with and invested in many other tech companies and startups. Perhaps the best-known of those partners: Apple. Robbins also discusses the internet of things and what he thinks of hot enterprise startups that compete with Cisco, such as Slack.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Crowdpac CEO Steve Hilton presents a data-based critique of modern American politics. Government is where meaningful change happens, he says, but people are less and less interested in either voting or running for office. He proposes that technology can overcome this apathy and break up the entrenched power of political insiders. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and civil rights activist DeRay Mckesson talk with Recode's Peter Kafka about how Twitter can both help and hurt political causes such as #BlackLivesMatter. Dorsey acknowledges that Twitter has often failed to prevent abuse and says he's trying to help it reach its full potential without compromising users' safety. The two talk about their sometimes conflicting opinions of how Twitter should grow, and Mckesson pitches his ideas for applying social media to protests, which he calls "telling the truth in public." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Born This Way Foundation President Cynthia Germanotta, the mother of pop music star Lady Gaga, announces the official launch of the anti-harassment campaign Hack Harassment. She tells the story of how a college-age Gaga, née Stefani Germanotta, was taunted and harassed to the point of depression. Hack Harassment is a collaboration among Born This Way, Intel, Vox Media and Recode, but Germanotta argues that a much larger effort is needed to solve the problem. She challenges Code attendees to take the #HackHarassment pledge at HackHarassment.com/code. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg and CTO Mike Shroepfer talk with Recode's Kara Swisher about the two controversies recently faced by the social media giant: Board member Peter Thiel's vendetta against Gawker Media and allegations that Facebook's trending topics were chosen with a liberal bias. Sandberg says Thiel was acting independently and will remain on the board, while Schroepfer reiterates that Facebook found no "systematic bias" but is still trying to communicate openly. Plus: Where does Facebook's platform go from here and should publishers be afraid of that answer? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bill and Melinda Gates talk with The Verge's Walt Mossberg about the sixth anniversary of the Gates Foundation's Giving Pledge, which commits billionaires to give most of their wealth to charitable causes. They argue that many wealthy entrepreneurs underestimate their own ability to apply business innovation to philanthropy. Melinda Gates is currently focused on improving women's access to contraception, while Bill Gates says vaccination efforts in the Middle East will completely wipe out polio worldwide by 2017. He also discusses how he views recent advances in artificial intelligence: "The dream is finally arriving."  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

enture capitalist Yuri Milner projects what it will take for humans to expand their understanding of space. A tiny device called a StarChip, weighing less than one gram, can be paired with a LightSail to make an unmanned "nanocraft," which can go much deeper into space than humans on a chemically fueled ship. Milner says nanocrafts face several challenges today, but should be feasible within 25-30 years. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices