Nilay Patel

Nilay Patel is an American editor and blogger who has been editor-in-chief of technology news website The Verge since 2014.

Education In 2003, Patel earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from the University of Chicago. In 2006, he received his Juris Doctor from the University of Wisconsin Law School. In 2011 Patel left Engadget along with a few co-workers to start The Verge. In March 2014 he left The Verge to join sister site Vox. In July 2014 he returned to The Verge as editor-in-chief, after Joshua Topolsky left the position to work at Bloomberg.

Patel is a co-host of The Vergecast, which has won the Webby Award for best technology podcast. He also hosts Decoder, a podcast on which he interviews tech and policy leaders, launched in 2020. He makes regular appearances on The Verge 's "history show meets a rewatch podcast" show, Version History.

Patel has appeared on a number of news channels, including MS NOW (formerly MSNBC), Fox News, CNN, CNN International, NPR, Sky News, NHK, G4TV, and TWiT.

Patel coined the term "Google Zero" to criticize the direction of search engines like Google Search integrating LLM tools like AI Overviews, which scrape media outlets for content and reduce click-through web traffic.