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.

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From Solar Pumps to Everything: Building a Market from Scratch

From Solar Pumps to Everything: Building a Market from Scratch

Samir Ibrahim is the co-founder and CEO of SunCulture. When he started the company, he thought he was solving a simple problem: How do you sell solar-powered pumps to help poor farmers irrigate their ...

22 Jan 40min

Mass-Producing Stem Cells to Cure Disease

Mass-Producing Stem Cells to Cure Disease

Nabiha Saklayen is the co-founder and CEO of Cellino. Nabiha’s problem is this: How can you make personalized stem cell therapies quickly and cheaply? Induced pluripotent stem cells, or IPSCs, have sh...

15 Jan 34min

Building a Self-Driving Tractor to Change the Future of Food

Building a Self-Driving Tractor to Change the Future of Food

Please take our survey https://tinyurl.com/wyplistenersurvey about the show! Tell us what you want to hear, and what would make it better. Tim Bucher is a farmer, and the founder and CEO of Agtonomy. ...

18 Des 202543min

We’re Going to Need a Better Boat

We’re Going to Need a Better Boat

Mitch Lee is the co-founder and CEO of Arc Boats. Mitch's problem is this: How do you build competitively priced electric boats?On today’s show, Mitch explains why water makes electrification so hard,...

11 Des 202535min

The App Where Strangers Lend Each Other Money

The App Where Strangers Lend Each Other Money

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 lendi...

20 Nov 202545min

Introducing Business History: The Edison Invention People Don't Talk About

Introducing Business History: The Edison Invention People Don't Talk About

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...

18 Nov 202549min

Using Sound Waves to Destroy Tumors

Using Sound Waves to Destroy Tumors

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-approve...

13 Nov 202534min

From Desert Robots to Driverless Trucks

From Desert Robots to Driverless Trucks

Chris Urmson is the co-founder and CEO of Aurora, a company trying to bring autonomous driving to commercial trucking.Chris led a team at the 2004 DARPA challenge that launched the autonomous vehicle ...

6 Nov 202544min

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