What's Your Problem?

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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 getting worse. What's Your Problem? learns from the thinkers and doers trying to make our future bet...

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Episodes (196)

Turning Waves Into Electricity

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Jan 12, 202322:43pending

From Some of My Best Friends Are: Everything Dope Comes from Chicago

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Dec 29, 202243:41pending

Flying on Battery Power

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Dec 15, 202226:17pending

Bringing Back the American Hoodie

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Dec 8, 202230:40pending

How to Save the Most Lives

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Dec 1, 202238:02pending

From Story of the Week with Joel Stein: Billionaires Prepping for the Apocalypse

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Nov 29, 202213:16pending

The Investors Everybody Ignored

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Nov 24, 202231:18pending

Sam Bankman-Fried Revisited

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Nov 16, 202225:33pending

Machiavelli's Tips for Getting Ahead at Work

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Nov 10, 202235:13pending

Google's Journey to the Edge of Search

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Nov 3, 202231:23pending

Paying People to Turn Off the Fridge

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Oct 27, 202225:26pending

Turning Writers into Publishers

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Oct 20, 202234:17pending

Shopify: The Business That Helps Build Businesses

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Oct 13, 202228:39pending

Putting Carbon Back Into the Ground

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Oct 6, 202232:00pending

Patching Together a Quilting Empire

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Sep 29, 202234:45pending

Revealing How Much Health Care Really Costs

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Sep 8, 202227:23pending

Saving the World with Poop

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Sep 1, 202230:44pending

Building an Empire on Free Code

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Aug 25, 202229:11pending

Selling Billions of Crickets a Year

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Aug 18, 202228:29pending

From Patented: Inventing the Wheeled Suitcase

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Aug 15, 202225:44pending

How the Nerds Conquered the NBA

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Aug 11, 202230:16pending

The Trick to Flying Cheap

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Aug 4, 202227:01pending

Beer Without the Buzz

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Jul 28, 202227:02pending

John Green Tests the Limits of YouTube

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Jul 21, 202228:57pending

Taking Bets on the Future

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Jul 14, 202229:59pending

From Unsung Science with David Pogue: The Man Who Stopped the Spammers

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Jul 13, 202229:59pending

Building Bespoke Weather Forecasts

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Jul 7, 202226:46pending

Squeezing the Entire Internet Into a Shoebox

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Jun 30, 202224:14pending

Facing Fear in the Housing Market

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Jun 23, 202229:04pending

From Hot Money: Playboy vs. Rusty and Edie

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Jun 21, 202240:14pending

Going to Venus on the Cheap

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Jun 2, 202226:06pending

Putting a Car on the Moon

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Jun 1, 202216:03pending

Sam Bankman-Fried Wants to Save the World

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May 24, 202220:01pending

The Quest for the Perfect Avocado

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May 19, 202223:05pending

Making Electronics Better

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May 12, 202224:59pending

From Slate Money: 37.8% Scammier

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May 10, 202223:06pending

Turning Cells into Tiny Factories

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May 5, 202216:54pending

Seeing Data From Space

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Apr 28, 202218:48pending

Growing a Weed Business

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Apr 20, 202217:29pending

Building a Company that Builds Companies

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Apr 14, 202219:11pending

Delivering Everything Right Now

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Apr 7, 202219:46pending

Chatting with the Machine

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Mar 31, 202219:15pending

Teaching Cars to Think Like People

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Mar 24, 202219:51pending

Launching Drone Delivery

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Mar 17, 202221:12pending

Becoming a Dog Ramp Mogul

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Mar 17, 202219:44pending

Introducing What's Your Problem

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