John Hanke's guest appearances

John Hanke

Decoder with Nilay Patel

Extremely Internet

Stratechery

Elon Musk

Satya Nadella

Matt Mullenweg

Mark Zuckerberg

Jeff Bezos

Adam Mosseri

Brad Stone

Jonah Peretti

Stewart Butterfield

Tony Fadell

Megan Quinn

Sallie Krawcheck

Sheryl Sandberg

Laura Wasser

Arianna Huffington

OwlTail

Sierra Katow from Las Comic Standing joins us to deep dive on John Hanke, an American entrepreneur and business executive. He is the founder and current CEO of Niantic, Inc., a software development company spun out of Google that designed Ingress, Pokémon Go and Harry Potter: Wizards Unite. But his story goes deeper once government contracts and the CIA get involved. 

Sierra Katow from Las Comic Standing joins us to deep dive on John Hanke, an American entrepreneur and business executive. He is the founder and current CEO of Niantic, Inc., a software development company spun out of Google that designed Ingress, Pokémon Go and Harry Potter: Wizards Unite. But his story goes deeper once government contracts and the CIA get involved.

17. John Hanke, the man behind Pokemon Go (w/ Sierra Katow)

Niantic

Niantic CEO John Hanke talks with Recode's Kara Swisher and Ina Fried about the company's hit mobile game Pokémon Go and what happens now that the initial hype around it has "stabilized." Future updates to the game will include new types of Pokémon, trading with other players and possibly battling with your friends. Hanke also reflects on his first company Keyhole, which was bought by Google and became Google Earth, and why augmented reality is a more important technology than virtual reality. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Niantic CEO John Hanke talks with Recode's Kara Swisher and Ina Fried about the company's hit mobile game Pokémon Go and what happens now that the initial hype around it has "stabilized." Future updates to the game will include new types of Pokémon, trading with other players and possibly battling with your friends. Hanke also reflects on his first company Keyhole, which was bought by Google and became Google Earth, and why augmented reality is a more important technology than virtual reality. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">podcastchoices.com/adchoices</a>

 Recode Decode: John Hanke, CEO, Niantic