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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. iHeartMedia is the exclusive podcast partner of Pushkin Industries.

Website ↗ Last published 2 November 2026 220 posts collected by Sputnik

Said on What's Your Problem?

“You can get away with a lot if you're managing a team of engineers. But there is one thing, if they're ambitious and talented, that you cannot get away with. And that is becoming less ambitious, scaling back the vision.” — Jacob Goldstein, What's Your Problem?
Jacob Goldstein · 26 Oct 2026 Listen →
“Because you have to ship these houses, you end up at some level having to optimize the house for a truck. And houses aren't for trucks, they're for people… But 3D printing, in a sense, we just kind of inverted the problem. We said, hey, instead of shipping the house, ship the factory.” — Jason Ballard, What's Your Problem?
Jason Ballard · 15 Oct 2026 Listen →
“If I offered your listeners a million dollar prize to invent a building material lower quality than drywall that would still pass building code, no one would win the prize. It is literally the crappiest thing we can imagine to build with.” — Jason Ballard, What's Your Problem?
Jason Ballard · 15 Oct 2026 Listen →

Hosts

What's Your Problem? is hosted by Jacob Goldstein , Nate Silver , Tim Harford , Ben Austen , Malcolm Gladwell , Maria Konnikova , Alex Barker , Khalil Gibran Muhammad , Miles Johnson , Nick Fountain , Patricia Nilsson and Ethan Wu .

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  5. 15 Oct 2026

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Guests

Luis Von Ahn (2 episodes), Katherine Sizov (2 episodes), Glenn Kelman (2 episodes), Sam Bankman-Fried (2 episodes), Robert Smith (2 episodes), Greg Piefer (2 episodes), Keenan Wyrobek (2 episodes), Pat Brown (2 episodes), Yaron Singer , Sallie Krawcheck , Mike Curtis , Brannin McBee , and 206 more.