Recode Replay

Stitch Fix founder and CEO Katrina Lake talks with Recode's Jason Del Rey about using personalized data science to help consumers find clothing that fits and looks good. Stitch Fix's personal shoppers sometimes rely only on the numbers but usually use their intuition as the "last mile" between buyers and the right clothes, which are delivered in a try-on box. Lake says recent expansions into men's and plus-size fashion are helping the company grow. She also talks about what she has learned from serving on the board of food delivery service GrubHub, which went public in 2014. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Walker & Company Brands founder and CEO Tristan Walker talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about the company's attempts to tap into the "wide-open opportunity" of making health and beauty products for people of color. Walker discusses the difficulties he has faced in raising money, due to a combination of investors' general aversion to e-commerce companies and specific skepticism about how many people can benefit from a product like Walker's Bevel razor. He also explains why he's planning to keep the business independent, building something that will last 200 years or more. Later this year, Walker & Company plans to launch a line of beauty products for women that are personalized to where the buyer lives and travels. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

20th Century Fox CEO Stacey Snider talks with CNBC's Julia Boorstin about the movie studio's investments in new technologies, including virtual reality and augmented reality. Snider says seeing a movie she envies, like Disney's "The Jungle Book," is a powerful motivator for exploring new techniques. She says studios need to respond to the changing demands of the movie-watching audience by reconsidering — but not breaking — standard theatrical release windows. She says the goal of Twentieth Century Fox is to appeal to all audiences, regardless of politics or background. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Google SVP Philipp Schindler talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about YouTube's original programming initiative and how the company compares it to Netflix's and Amazon's. Schindler says the key differentiator is YouTube's existing fanbase, which spends more than 50 percent of its time watching video on mobile devices. He also discusses some "megatrends" in technology, including machine learning and new types of devices like wearables, which he says are coming together into an "age of smart assistants." Schindler argues that virtual reality and augmented reality are incredibly important technologies for the future of video and that Google's role is to democratize access to VR and AR. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

National Geographic Channel CEO Courteney Monroe talks with Recode's Peter Kafka about how the iconic magazine and TV brand is trying to shift its business "from reverence to relevance." Initially unimpressed with NatGeo's TV programming, Monroe — an HBO veteran — was tasked by 21st Century Fox with imagining a more ambitious HBO-esque lineup. Its first scripted series, "Genius," is directed by Ron Howard and will adapt Walter Isaacson's biography of Albert Einstein. She says the company is thinking like a scrappy startup within Fox's media empire, investing much more heavily in marketing and social media to attract eyeballs to a cable channel that many viewers may not know they get. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

MediaLink CEO Michael Kassan talks about "the 3 o'clock wakeup call," the ruthless drumbeat of economic, technological and political disruption in the media business. He shares some strategies for responding to that disorder, including more careful selection of who you partner with and why transparency between business and the audience is more important than ever. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Starz President and CEO Chris Albrecht talks with Recode's Peter Kafka about how the premium cable channel is targeting underserved TV audiences such as African-Americans, women and LGBT people — groups that also happen to be active social media users. Albrecht also hopes to reach new subscribers with less than $50,000 in annual household income, who don't have a credit card but would buy a Starz subscription card at the supermarket. He also discusses how Starz and other premium networks, including his former company HBO, are faring when they try to sell themselves to consumers directly and through Amazon, rather than through cable companies like Comcast and Time Warner. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Fusion Senior Editor Felix Salmon talks about seven mistakes his team at Fusion Media Group committed, including the assumption that millennials could be made to watch TV. Also: Don't let TV people make your website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Stratechery founder and author Ben Thompson talks about how the internet has impacted different types of media — text, audio and video — and what other industries such as hotels can learn from that history. He explains the power of bundling in media economics and why companies like Google and Facebook are so disruptive to that practice. After his presentation, he talks with Recode's Peter Kafka about why he started covering tech strategy instead of tech products and how, as a writer based in Taiwan, he has attracted paying subscribers in 30 countries. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Facebook VP of Partnerships Dan Rose talks with CNBC's Julia Boorstin about Facebook's plans to launch a connected TV app for Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV and Samsung smart TVs. Rose says Facebook, which has been testing a dedicated "video tab" on the web for months, is hoping to see longer videos than the 30- to 60-second clips that currently dominate the News Feed. Rose also talks about how Facebook is working with news publishers and journalists to combat "fake news" and support news literacy. He says Facebook should label hoaxes but not prevent them from being distributed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices