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What's Your Problem?

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.

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222 episodes

  1. Can You Fix Insurance? 31:07
  2. Can a Cancer Gene Keep Muscles Young? 31:36
  3. How Warren Buffet Built His Legacy By Finding Value No One Else Could See from Business History 44:26
  4. Every Cell in Your Body Has a Clock 30:18
  5. How a Bad Boss Kickstarted Silicon Valley... from Business History 48:16
  6. Solving the Trust Problem in AI Shopping 40:20
  7. Can a Robot Build Better, Cheaper Houses? 50:34
  8. Did AI Write This? 38:50
  9. Blockers | A Preview of Michael Lewis's New Audiobook 50:20
  10. Can We Defeat Deepfakes? 38:45
  11. The Printing Press: The Invention Built on Debt and Sin… from Business History 46:33
  12. Should We Pause AI? 44:12
  13. Bonus: Planning for Your Financial Future 10:16
  14. Can a Robot Kill Fish Humanely? 38:22
  15. Using Satellites to Prevent Famines 36:38
  16. The Quantum Shift in Biomedical Discovery from Smart Talks with IBM 44:16
  17. Can We Slow Down Aging? 36:38
  18. Why Doctors Use Evidence but Managers (Mostly) Don’t 41:33
  19. The Job AI Was Supposed to Kill 39:40
  20. How China Won the Car Industry 54:03
  21. Using Viruses to Fight Disease 32:20
  22. How AI Could Reduce Inequality 43:43
  23. Racing Wildfires to Warn the Public 52:22
  24. How AI Could Actually Make the World Better 44:15
  25. Finding Meaning (and Money) in the AI Age 48:13
  26. Using Pokémon Go to Map the World 36:29
  27. The Company Where Everyone Has Their Own AI Agent 40:35
  28. Inventing a Better Apple 33:40
  29. Building a Business on the Moon 32:35
  30. Building a Robot People Actually Want 40:51
  31. Turning Waste Wood Into Buildings 36:35
  32. The Great Fusion Debate: How Far Away Are We Really? 42:04
  33. How SharkNinja Keeps Going Viral 35:12
  34. Growing New Livers to Save Lives 40:34
  35. Can the US Break China's Grip on Rare Earths? 41:54
  36. How Quantum Computers Could Change the World 40:03
  37. Fighting Wildfires from Space 48:58
  38. The Killer We Refused to See 39:13
  39. The Startup Run by AI Agents 54:16
  40. Can AI Help Solve Alzheimer’s? 33:47
  41. The New Science of Preventing Heart Attacks 32:54
  42. From Solar Pumps to Everything: Building a Market from Scratch 40:58
  43. Mass-Producing Stem Cells to Cure Disease 34:22
  44. Building a Self-Driving Tractor to Change the Future of Food 43:21
  45. We’re Going to Need a Better Boat 35:53
  46. The App Where Strangers Lend Each Other Money 45:14
  47. Introducing Business History: The Edison Invention People Don't Talk About 49:42
  48. Using Sound Waves to Destroy Tumors 34:07
  49. From Desert Robots to Driverless Trucks 44:00
  50. Is the Future of Fresh Water Under the Sea? 31:55