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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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We’re sharing another podcast we think you’ll enjoy, The Big Short Companion from Against the Rules, hosted by fellow Pushkin podcast host Michael Lewis. The Big Short is now 15 years old and to mark the occasion, Lewis narrated a new audiobook versi... more

Nina Mohanty is the founder and CEO of Bloom Money. Nina’s problem is this: How do you build an app to help immigrants manage their money?

On today’s show, Nina talks about bringing a saving and lending practice into the 21st century, navigating re... more

What's Your Problem? host Jacob Goldstein has a new show: Business History.

How did Hitler’s favorite car become synonymous with hippies? What got Thomas Edison tangled up with the electric chair? Did someone murder the guy who invented the movies?... more

Mike Blue is the CEO of HistoSonics. The company recently developed a device that uses ultrasound to destroy tumors.

On today’s show, Mike talks about how a garage-built prototype became an FDA-approved machine; changing the company’s story after a ... more

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Episode: The App Where Strangers Lend Each Other Money
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Episode: Using Sound Waves to Destroy Tumors
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Episode: Building a Better Public Bathroom
Boris Soffman
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Episode: Could Autonomous Diggers Unleash a Building Boom?
Justin Kolbeck
Co-founder and CEO of Wild Type, focused on cultivating lab-grown seafood.
Wild Type
Episode: Growing Meat from Cells
Ed Conway
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Episode: The Ordinary Stuff Behind Technological Breakthroughs
Shashank Samala
Co-founder and CEO of Airloom, focused on carbon capture technology using limestone.
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Aaron Parness
Director of Applied Science at Amazon Robotics
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Jacob Goldstein
Host of What's Your Problem?, with experience as a journalist focusing on economic issues. Provides engaging interviews that bridge complex topics with accessible dialogue.

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4.6 out of 5 stars from 578 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
    Australiaa month 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 Statesa month 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
    2 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 Kingdom3 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 States4 months ago

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Positive feedback on the entertaining and hopeful nature of the content, with many noting the inspiring guests and their solutions to pressing issues.
Listeners appreciate the engagement with innovative thinkers tackling real-world problems, often highlighting the depth and relevance of the topics discussed.
Some critiques mentioned issues with the host's interviewing style, particularly interruptions that could detract from guest contributions.

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From Desert Robots to Driverless Trucks
Q: So what's the business model?
Our business model is to work with the ecosystem that's there today. So today, if you're a trucking company, you buy a truck and then you pay somebody to drive that truck for you.
From Desert Robots to Driverless Trucks
Q: What are the important constraints on autonomous vehicles right now, sort of broadly, technologically, in terms of policy?
I think it's primarily technological right now.
From Desert Robots to Driverless Trucks
Q: When and did it catch on fire?
No fire this time. It just kind of worked. We had a little bit of nerves at the very beginning because, you know, our system was pretty reliable, robust.
Could Autonomous Diggers Unleash a Building Boom?
Q: Why did you start with excavators?
Excavators are the most highly utilized machine in construction, usually comprising twenty to twenty-five percent of fleets, and are also complex to operate, creating a large demand for operators.
Growing Meat from Cells
Q: What was your first thought when you saw the beating heart cells in your friend's lab?
It made the prospect of creating lab-grown meat seem more possible, as if human cells could be grown successfully, then growing meat could be feasible as well.

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