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What's Your Problem? podcast

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What's Your Problem?

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  iHeartPodcasts and Pushkin Industries  

Every week on What's Your Problem?, former Planet Money host Jacob Goldstein talks with entrepreneurs and engineers tackling the biggest challenges at the forefront of technology. How do you make a trip to space as routine as a plane flight? How do you turn solar energy into clean fuel? How do you use AI to stop deadly infections before they spread? We hear a lot these days about how the world is getting worse. What's Your Problem? learns from the thinkers and doers trying to make our future better. iHeartMedia is the exclusive podcast partner of Pushkin Industries.

Every week on What's Your Problem?, former Planet Money host Jacob Goldstein talks with entrepreneurs and engineers tackling the biggest challenges at the forefront of technology. How do you make a trip to space as routine as a plane flight? How do you turn solar energy into clean fuel? How do you use AI to stop deadly infections before they spread? We hear a lot these days about how the world is getting worse. What's Your Problem? learns from the thinkers and doers trying to make our future better. iHeartMedia is the exclusive podcast partner of Pushkin Industries.

 

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#179

We’re Going to Need a Better Boat

Mitch Lee is the co-founder and CEO of Arc Boats. Mitch's problem is this: How do you buil... more

11 Dec 2025

35 MINS

35:53

11 Dec 2025

#178

How to Experience the Joy of Giving Right Now: A Giving Tuesday Special from The Happiness Lab

According to the science, it really is better to give than receive. Donating a dollar; sha... more

02 Dec 2025

47 MINS

47:42

02 Dec 2025

#177

The App Where Strangers Lend Each Other Money

Nina Mohanty is the founder and CEO of Bloom Money. Nina’s problem is this: How do y... more

20 Nov 2025

45 MINS

45:14

20 Nov 2025

#176

Introducing Business History: The Edison Invention People Don't Talk About

What's Your Problem? host Jacob Goldstein has a new show: [Business History] (https://appl... more

18 Nov 2025

49 MINS

49:42

18 Nov 2025

#175

Using Sound Waves to Destroy Tumors

 Mike Blue is the CEO of HistoSonics. The company recently developed a device that uses ul... more

13 Nov 2025

34 MINS

34:07

13 Nov 2025

#174

From Desert Robots to Driverless Trucks

Chris Urmson is the co-founder and CEO of Aurora, a company trying to bring autonomous dri... more

06 Nov 2025

44 MINS

44:00

06 Nov 2025

#173

Is the Future of Fresh Water Under the Sea?

Michael Porter is the Chief Technology Officer of OceanWell.Michael's problem is this: How... more

30 Oct 2025

31 MINS

31:55

30 Oct 2025

#172

Could Home Batteries Save the Grid?

Justin Lopas is the COO and co-founder of Base Power, a battery and power company based in... more

23 Oct 2025

30 MINS

30:40

23 Oct 2025

#171

Building a Better Public Bathroom

Fletcher Wilson is the CEO and co-founder of  Throne Labs.Fletcher’s problem is this... more

16 Oct 2025

38 MINS

38:15

16 Oct 2025

#170

Could Autonomous Diggers Unleash a Building Boom?

Boris Sofman is the co-founder and CEO of Bedrock Robotics. Boris' problem is this: How do... more

02 Oct 2025

31 MINS

31:13

02 Oct 2025

#169

Growing Meat from Cells

Justin Kolbeck is the co-founder and CEO of Wildtype, a company making seafood without kil... more

25 Sep 2025

47 MINS

47:35

25 Sep 2025

#168

The Ordinary Stuff Behind Technological Breakthroughs

 Ed Conway is an economics journalist and author of the book “Material World: The Si... more

18 Sep 2025

44 MINS

44:03

18 Sep 2025

#167

Carbon Capture at Rock-Bottom Prices

Shashank Samala is the CEO and co-founder of Heirloom, a carbon capture start-up. His prob... more

11 Sep 2025

38 MINS

38:13

11 Sep 2025

#166

Why Amazon Built a Spatula-Wielding Robot

Aaron Parness is a director of applied science at Amazon Robotics. His problem is this: Ho... more

04 Sep 2025

44 MINS

44:14

04 Sep 2025

#165

Drilling Smarter Wells to Unleash Geothermal Energy

In many places on Earth, there’s steam just below the surface. We don’t know w... more

28 Aug 2025

37 MINS

37:11

28 Aug 2025

#164

Inventing a Better Pain Pill

 Dr. Stephen Waxman is a professor of neurology, neuroscience and pharmacology at Yale. Hi... more

21 Aug 2025

32 MINS

32:18

21 Aug 2025

#163

Mapping the Unmappable

 Philipp Kandal is the chief product officer of Grab, an app that serves several countries... more

14 Aug 2025

35 MINS

35:54

14 Aug 2025

#162

Reinventing Blood

Dr. Allan Doctor is the co-founder and chief scientific officer at Kalocyte, a company tha... more

07 Aug 2025

35 MINS

35:45

07 Aug 2025

#161

The AI Pioneer Developing New Kinds of Medicine

Jakob Uszkoreit is the CEO and co-founder of Inceptive, a biotech start-up. He’s als... more

17 Jul 2025

47 MINS

47:00

17 Jul 2025