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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 ... more

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Recent Guests

Melanie Windridge
Founder of Fusion Energy Insights; co-founder of Fusion X Invest Conferences; founder of Fusion Advisory Services
Fusion Energy Insights / Fusion X Invest / Fusion Advisory Services
Episode: The Great Fusion Debate: How Far Away Are We Really?
Mark Barrocas
CEO of SharkNinja
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Episode: How SharkNinja Keeps Going Viral
Jacob Goldstein
Journalist and host of What's Your Problem? and Business History; author
What's Your Problem?/Planet Money alumni
Episode: From Here We Go Again With Kal Penn: Will Technology Replace Us? with Jacob Goldstein
Michael Hufford
Co-founder and CEO of LyGenesis
LyGenesis
Episode: Growing New Livers to Save Lives
Hanikah Faber
CEO of Logitech
Logitech
Episode: Introducing Rapid Response: Logitech's CEO treats AI like a board member
David Abraham
Author of The Elements of Power; founder and CEO of Outpost
Outpost; Author
Episode: Can the US Break China's Grip on Rare Earths?
Ben Bloom
Co founder and CEO of Atom Computing
Atom Computing
Episode: How Quantum Computers Could Change the World
Johnny Dyer
Co-founder and CEO of Muon Space
Muon Space
Episode: Fighting Wildfires from Space
Tom Levenson
Professor of science writing at MIT and author of the book 'So Very Small'.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Episode: The Killer We Refused to See

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Jacob Goldstein
Former host of Planet Money and experienced journalist focusing on economic matters, Jacob Goldstein engages with guests to explore innovative solutions for pressing problems in technology and business.

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4.6 out of 5 stars from 592 ratings
  • Delete the Process, Crash the Car

    The advertisements are annoying, frequent and blaring.

    Interesting topic but turned off when it was revealed the guest was an Elon Musk fan. Sure it’s possible to work faster but when it comes to public safety this can result in cars that crash and kill people, rockets that crash land in areas where rockets shouldn’t crash. Then there is what was done to Twitter and to democracy and government. Very broken and toxic. Delete the process, demolish the rose garden.

    Musk is also a liar who said he ... more

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    acuteangle
    Australia6 months ago
  • Good, but...

    You have really good content. BUT, you like, can't speak an entire like sentence without like using really distracting like language. Like grow up and learn how to like speak. Your language is like way too like distracting

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    disappointed 206
    United States6 months ago
  • Love the podcast...... Jacob covers lots of interesting topics and the length of the episodes are perfect for when I'm out walking. The only reason I didn't give it 5 stars is the amount of commercials. I get it, you have to generate income to finance the podcast, but a recent episode i listened to had almost 10 minutes of commercials in the 28 minute length.

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    kathyaj
    7 months ago
  • Fantastic

    Jacob, come on, Nan kept explaining that their climate capture strategy is the opposite of a marginal investor (they are a first mover investor at much higher than marginal cost ) and you kept repeating marginal several times!

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    Charly358
    United Kingdom8 months ago
  • Knowledge and Hope

    This might be my favorite podcast. So many interesting solutions to important current problems. It gives me hope for the future. Jacob has become a great interface between the science, scientist and the listener.

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    🌻Jocelyn🌻
    United States9 months ago

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Listeners appreciate the insightful conversations about real-world problems and innovative solutions.
There are frequent mentions of the host's engaging interviewing style and thoughtful questions, although some critiques exist regarding interruptions during discussions.

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How SharkNinja Keeps Going Viral
Q: How did the Creami go viral and what role did creators play?
The product benefited from a strong creator marketing flywheel, early social media seeding, and a robust community producing recipes and unboxing content, which reduced reliance on paid advertising over time.
How SharkNinja Keeps Going Viral
Q: How does SharkNinja approach product pricing and trade-offs in development?
They start with an aspirational price point, then engineer around costs, components, and motor limitations to meet the target while balancing performance, quality, and value.
How SharkNinja Keeps Going Viral
Q: What was the original leap from mops to a new kind of blender?
The team asked what consumers actually do with blenders at home, noticed that they want restaurant-quality frozen drinks, and redesigned the blades to go up top, enabling a “snow” of ice and better texture.
Growing New Livers to Save Lives
Q: What are the main risks right now?
Key risks include acute immune rejection for allogeneic cells, procedural safety of endoscopic lymph node injections, and business/financing challenges inherent to biotech startups, with mitigation through careful dosing and monitoring.
Growing New Livers to Save Lives
Q: How does the procedure work in a patient?
Donor liver cells are isolated and injected into a lymph node via an endoscopic ultrasound-guided needle; the cells then proliferate and organize into a functional tissue, with patients receiving immune suppression to prevent rejection.

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