What's Your Problem?

What's Your Problem?

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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Building Bespoke Weather Forecasts

Building Bespoke Weather Forecasts

Shimon Elkabetz is the founder and CEO of Tomorrow.io. His problem: How do you build a weather forecasting company from scratch? The company already sells weather intelligence to companies like JetBlu...

7 Juli 202226min

Squeezing the Entire Internet Into a Shoebox

Squeezing the Entire Internet Into a Shoebox

Emily Leproust is the co-founder and CEO of Twist Bioscience. Her problem: How do you store data in DNA -- and make it cheap enough to work in the real world. The cells in our bodies contain an incred...

30 Juni 202224min

Facing Fear in the Housing Market

Facing Fear in the Housing Market

Glenn Kelman is the CEO of the real estate company Redfin. His problem: With the housing market teetering, how do you sell houses online? Redfin has a website where you can look at houses for sale, ju...

23 Juni 202229min

From Hot Money: Playboy vs. Rusty and Edie

From Hot Money: Playboy vs. Rusty and Edie

This bonus episode is from Hot Money, a new podcast from Pushkin and the Financial Times. When Financial Times reporter Patricia Nilsson started digging into the porn industry, she made a shocking dis...

21 Juni 202240min

Going to Venus on the Cheap

Going to Venus on the Cheap

Peter Beck is the founder and CEO of Rocket Lab. His problem: How do you turn sending stuff into outer space into something that seems as boring and predictable as mailing a package? Later this month,...

2 Juni 202226min

Putting a Car on the Moon

Putting a Car on the Moon

On this bonus episode of What’s Your Problem? Jacob Goldstein talks with Eddie Alterman, former editor of Car and Driver and host of the new podcast Car Show! In this episode, Eddie investigates the L...

1 Juni 202216min

Sam Bankman-Fried Wants to Save the World

Sam Bankman-Fried Wants to Save the World

Sam Bankman-Fried is the founder and CEO of the crypto exchange FTX. His problem: How to spend billions of dollars to save humanity. Sam is one of the most interesting people in crypto -- in large par...

24 Maj 202220min

The Quest for the Perfect Avocado

The Quest for the Perfect Avocado

Katherine Sizov is the founder and CEO of Strella Biotech. Her problem: Tons of food is wasted before it ever gets to the consumer. Katherine started working on this problem in 2018, when she was a ju...

19 Maj 202223min

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