What's Your Problem?

Xiao Wang is the founder of a company called Boundless. Xiao’s problem is this: How do you make it cheaper and easier for people to navigate the U.S. immigration system? Xiao moved to the U.S. from Ch...

22 Jun 202329min

Henrik Stiesdal got his start in wind power back in the 70s. The price of oil had gone way up, and he wanted to help his parents figure out a cheaper source of electricity for their farm. He went on t...

15 Jun 202322min

One of the most amazing things about ChatGPT and other, similar AI models: Nobody really understands what they can do. Not even the people who build them. On today’s show, we talk with Sam Bowman abou...

8 Jun 202332min

Dan Friedmann is the CEO of Carbon Engineering. The company is at the frontier of a new industry, direct air capture. They just broke ground on a big plant in Texas that will pull carbon dioxide out o...

1 Jun 202325min

Does flying have to be bad for the environment? Val Miftakhov, the founder and CEO of ZeroAvia, doesn’t think so. His company built a plane that’s powered by hydrogen fuel, which produces zero carbon ...

25 Mai 202328min

Andrew Mason is the founder and CEO of Descript. Descript's software has made editing audio and video much simpler.  The company recently received a large investment from OpenAI, the company behind Ch...

18 Mai 202331min

Andrew Ponec is co-founder and CEO of the energy storage company Antora Energy.  Andrew's problem is this: How can you store renewable energy in a way that is cheap enough and reliable enough for indu...

11 Mai 202325min

Tammy Hsu and Michelle Zhu are the cofounders of Huue.  Their problem is this: how do you get bacteria to produce indigo dye? And how do you do it cheaply and reliably enough to replace the toxic petr...

4 Mai 202324min