Welcome to Converge, a conversational game show hosted by Casey Newton, the Silicon Valley editor of The Verge. Listen as the tech industry’s most fascinating entrepreneurs step into the hot seat to play a series of tailor-made games that are funny and revealing. Produced by The Verge and the Vox Media Podcast Network.
Latest episodes
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46 min
Eoghan McCabe chats about bots
The hype cycle for bots exploded in 2016 as developers poured time and money into the dream of personal digital assistants. Facebook and Microsoft announced major investments into…
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46 min
Pandora’s Roger Lynch makes us a playlist
Breaking down music into its component parts helped Pandora build personalized music playlists years before services like Spotify even existed. Could taking a similar approach with…
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48 min
Taggart Matthiesen takes us for a ride
Should ride-sharing companies build a “quiet mode”? “We have thought about it,” Taggart Matthiesen, head of product for autonomous driving for Lyft, told me. “I think it’s interest…
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45 min
The Human Utility’s Tiffani Ashley Bell on how small nonprofits are stepping up
Tiffani Ashley Bell is the founder of the Human Utility, a nonprofit organization working to restore water service to people who are unable to pay their bills. The organization, wh…
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44 min
Dream Machine’s Alexia Bonatsos makes a surprisingly good case for an Airbnb for horses
Alexia Bonatsos has watched countless startups come and go. First as the editor in chief of TechCrunch, and now in her current role as the founder of venture capital firm Dream Mac…
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43 min
Front’s Mathilde Collin on why email is making a comeback
It’s been four years now since Slack arrived to kill email — and yet, email persists. While the group chat app has plenty of ardent fans and continues to grow quickly, it also draw…
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48 min
Mike Maples Jr's midas touch
It hasn’t even been four years since Amazon bought Twitch.tv, the live-streaming platform that has become the primary destination for broadcasting the playing of video games. Since…
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42 min
Maran Nelson scares us about AI
Clara Labs cofounder and CEO Maran Nelson tells us there is real reason to be worried about AI — and not for the reasons that science fiction has trained us to expect. Clara’s appr…
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38 min
Pocket's Nate Weiner saves our content
Pocket founder and CEO Nate Weiner tells us why he sold his company to Mozilla — and how he’s working to build a better version of Facebook’s News Feed into the Firefox browser. By…
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48 min
Google’s Mark Risher changes our passwords
On this week’s episode of Converge, Google’s Mark Risher tells us why the conventional wisdom about choosing your password is wrong — and about the expanding number of threats face…
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39 min
Shan-Lyn Ma from Zola gets married to New York
On the second episode of Converge, Zola co-founder and CEO Shan-Lyn Ma comes on to tell us why she’s building her company in New York. Zola runs a popular online wedding registry t…
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42 min
Sima Sistani from Houseparty throws a Tupperware party for pot
Converge is an interview game show where the biggest personalities in tech come on to tell us about their wildest dreams. It’s a show that’s easy to win, but not impossible to lose…
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Introducing Converge with Casey Newton
Get ready for The Verge's new game show that's easy to win, but not impossible to lose. Each week, Casey Newton will sit down with one of Silicon Valley's most interesting players…