What's Your Problem?
Technology

What's Your Problem?

by 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.

102 episodes
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1
Growing New Livers to Save Lives
40:34 Mar 19, 2026
2
Introducing Rapid Response: Logitech's CEO treats AI like a board member
28:17 Mar 16, 2026
3
Can the US Break China's Grip on Rare Earths?
41:54 Mar 12, 2026
4
How Quantum Computers Could Change the World
40:03 Mar 5, 2026
5
Fighting Wildfires from Space
48:58 Feb 26, 2026
6
The Killer We Refused to See
39:13 Feb 19, 2026
7
The Startup Run by AI Agents
54:16 Feb 12, 2026
8
Can AI Help Solve Alzheimer’s?
33:47 Feb 5, 2026
9
The New Science of Preventing Heart Attacks
32:54 Jan 29, 2026
10
From Solar Pumps to Everything: Building a Market from Scratch
40:58 Jan 22, 2026
11
Mass-Producing Stem Cells to Cure Disease
34:22 Jan 15, 2026
12
From Kill Switch: The Glassholes Are Back
39:39 Dec 25, 2025
13
Building a Self-Driving Tractor to Change the Future of Food
43:21 Dec 18, 2025
14
We’re Going to Need a Better Boat
35:53 Dec 11, 2025
15
How to Experience the Joy of Giving Right Now: A Giving Tuesday Special from The Happiness Lab
47:42 Dec 2, 2025
16
The Big Short Companion from Against the Rules: How the Financial Crisis Broke Wall Street
32:11 Nov 25, 2025
17
The App Where Strangers Lend Each Other Money
45:14 Nov 20, 2025
18
Introducing Business History: The Edison Invention People Don't Talk About
49:42 Nov 18, 2025
19
Using Sound Waves to Destroy Tumors
34:07 Nov 13, 2025
20
From Desert Robots to Driverless Trucks
44:00 Nov 6, 2025
21
Is the Future of Fresh Water Under the Sea?
31:55 Oct 30, 2025
22
Could Home Batteries Save the Grid?
30:40 Oct 23, 2025
23
Building a Better Public Bathroom
38:15 Oct 16, 2025
24
Could Autonomous Diggers Unleash a Building Boom?
31:13 Oct 2, 2025
25
Growing Meat from Cells
47:35 Sep 25, 2025
26
The Ordinary Stuff Behind Technological Breakthroughs
44:03 Sep 18, 2025
27
Carbon Capture at Rock-Bottom Prices
38:13 Sep 11, 2025
28
Ferrari Fandom, Supercharged by AI from Smart Talks with IBM
27:35 Sep 9, 2025
29
Why Amazon Built a Spatula-Wielding Robot
44:14 Sep 4, 2025
30
Drilling Smarter Wells to Unleash Geothermal Energy
37:11 Aug 28, 2025
31
Inventing a Better Pain Pill
32:18 Aug 21, 2025
32
Mapping the Unmappable
35:54 Aug 14, 2025
33
Reinventing Blood
35:45 Aug 7, 2025
34
The AI Pioneer Developing New Kinds of Medicine
47:00 Jul 17, 2025
35
A Billion-Dollar Bet on Carbon Removal
42:55 Jul 10, 2025
36
Giving Old Batteries New Life
35:11 Jul 3, 2025
37
Engineering the Future of Fusion
40:53 Jun 26, 2025
38
Can Robots Fix Recycling?
32:59 Jun 19, 2025
39
Warlords, Espionage, and Disinformation | Introducing Hot Money: Agent of Chaos
38:58 Jun 17, 2025
40
Inside the Mind of an AI Model
43:28 Jun 12, 2025
41
Teaching Robots How to Do Everything
37:18 Jun 5, 2025
42
Making a Universal Flu Vaccine
38:19 May 29, 2025
43
Teaching Computers to Smell
36:16 May 22, 2025
44
China’s Race to Dominate: Listen to Global Tech Wars
25:39 May 1, 2025
45
Can a Chatbot Treat Depression?
45:42 Apr 24, 2025
46
Will AI Radically Change the World by 2027?... from Risky Business
47:03 Apr 23, 2025
47
Is the Future of Flight Supersonic?
41:17 Apr 17, 2025
48
The Secrets of Silk
25:20 Apr 10, 2025
49
Infiltrating an International Ransomware Gang
33:14 Apr 8, 2025
50
Preparing for the Future of War
55:09 Apr 3, 2025
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