The Quest for the Factory-Built House
Today's show is about a problem people have been trying to solve for a hundred years: how can we mass produce houses, like we do cars? Listen for a house that looks like a UFO, a giant mobile home boo...
27 Huhti 202327min
Building Houses Like Tesla Builds Cars
Alexis Rivas is the co-founder and CEO of Cover. His problem is: How do you build houses in a factory, the way you build cars? And how do you do it so they're cheaper and better than a traditionally b...
20 Huhti 202331min
Human Bones, Made In the Lab
Nina Tandon is the co-founder and CEO of a tissue engineering company called EpiBone. Her problem is this: How do you grow custom bone from patients' stem cells, at a price that makes sense?See omnyst...
30 Maalis 202323min
Tiny Chips, Giant Stakes
Microchips are the most important driver of technological progress in the modern world, and governments are fighting over who gets to make them. Right now, most cutting-edge chips are made in Taiwan, ...
23 Maalis 202327min
Problems Solved: Drones, Bananas and Real Estate*
It's our first anniversary and—almost 50 episodes in—Jacob Goldstein checks in with three past guests. Drone delivery guy Keenan Wyrobek thinks he has solved a big problem holding back commercial dron...
16 Maalis 202329min
Faster, Cheaper Drugs with AI
Alice Zhang is the co-founder and CEO of Verge Genomics. Alice's problem is this: How do you use artificial intelligence to drive down the price of developing new drugs? The company is using AI to fin...
9 Maalis 202330min
Creating the Uncrashable Car
When Austin Russell was 17 years old, he founded Luminar Technologies to work on a remote sensing technology called Lidar. Today, Austin is one of the world's youngest self-made billionaires, and Lum...
2 Maalis 202321min
The Electric Truck that Went Viral on TikTok
Chace Barber is the co-founder of Edison Motors. Chace's problem is this: How do you build electric logging trucks in rural Canada, with money you raised from people who follow you on TikTok? Chace st...
23 Helmi 202329min
