122 episodes

Every week on What’s Your Problem, entrepreneurs and engineers talk about the future they’re trying to build – and the problems they have to solve to get there.

How do you take a drone delivery service you’ve built in Rwanda and make it work in North Carolina? How do you convince people to buy a house on the Internet? How do you sell thousands of dog ramps to weiner dogs all across America when a pandemic breaks the global supply chain? 

Hosted by former Planet Money host Jacob Goldstein, What’s Your Problem helps listeners understand the problems really smart people are trying to solve right now.

iHeartMedia is the exclusive podcast partner of Pushkin Industries.

What's Your Problem‪?‬ Pushkin

    • Business
    • 4.5 • 219 Ratings

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Every week on What’s Your Problem, entrepreneurs and engineers talk about the future they’re trying to build – and the problems they have to solve to get there.

How do you take a drone delivery service you’ve built in Rwanda and make it work in North Carolina? How do you convince people to buy a house on the Internet? How do you sell thousands of dog ramps to weiner dogs all across America when a pandemic breaks the global supply chain? 

Hosted by former Planet Money host Jacob Goldstein, What’s Your Problem helps listeners understand the problems really smart people are trying to solve right now.

iHeartMedia is the exclusive podcast partner of Pushkin Industries.

Listen on Apple Podcasts
Requires subscription and macOS 11.4 or higher

    Pushkin Goes to the Olympics

    Pushkin Goes to the Olympics

    Legends are made at the Olympics and this summer shows across the Pushkin network are bringing their unique takes to Olympic stories. This special episode includes excerpts from a few: a Cautionary Tale about underestimating female marathoners, a Jesse Owens story from Revisionist History’s series on Hitler’s Olympics, and—from What’s Your Problem—the new technology that’s helping Olympic athletes get stronger.
    Check out other show feeds as well, the Happiness Lab and A Slight Change of Plans are also going to the Games.
    Sylvia Blemker of Springbok Analytics on What’s Your Problem
    The Women Who Broke the Marathon Taboo on Cautionary Tales
    Hitler’s Olympics from Revisionist History
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    • 38 min
    Turning Old Cans Into Clean Energy

    Turning Old Cans Into Clean Energy

    Aluminum is the most abundant metal in the Earth’s crust. It’s cheap, ubiquitous, and surprisingly energy dense. Peter Godart is the co-founder and CEO of Found Energy. Peter's problem is this: How can you use aluminum as a source of clean, renewable energy?
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    • 36 min
    Pushkin+ Early Listen: Detecting Deepfakes With AI

    Pushkin+ Early Listen: Detecting Deepfakes With AI

    You can hear this episode for free starting Thursday, August 1st. To learn more about Pushkin+ offerings, like ad-free episodes, exclusive content, and early access, visit pushkin.fm or the show page on Apple.

    As generative AI tools improve, it is becoming easier to digitally manipulate content and harder to tell when it has been tampered with. Today we are talking to someone on the front lines of this battle. Ali Shahriyari is the co-founder and CTO of Reality Defender. Ali's problem is this: How do you build a set of models to distinguish between reality and AI-generated deepfakes?

    Moneyball, Soccer, and the Gap Between Analytics and the Real World

    Moneyball, Soccer, and the Gap Between Analytics and the Real World

    Sarah Rudd is the co-founder and CEO of the soccer analytics company src | ftbl (It’s pronounced “Source Football.”) Sarah’s problem is this: How do you model a sport as fluid and complex as soccer and translate the analytical insights from the model into meaningful changes on the pitch? 
    This is the third and final episode of our series about people who are working at the frontiers of technology to help elite athletes perform better.
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    • 41 min
    Using Computer Vision to See What Coaches Can’t

    Using Computer Vision to See What Coaches Can’t

    Jimmy Buffi is the CEO and co-founder of Reboot Motion, which uses biomechanics to help athletes in Major League Baseball and the NBA. Jimmy's problem is this: How do you turn data about how professional athletes move into knowledge that helps them perform better?
    This is the second episode of our series about people who are working at the frontiers of technology to help elite athletes perform better.
    Music: Let's Have Some Fruit (The Fruit Song) by J Buffi
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    • 42 min
    Scanning Every Muscle to Help Olympians Get Stronger

    Scanning Every Muscle to Help Olympians Get Stronger

    On the next few episodes of What's Your Problem, Jacob Goldstein is talking with people working at the frontiers of technology to help elite athletes perform better. 
    Today’s guest is Silvia Blemker, a professor of biomedical engineering at the University of Virginia and the co-founder of Springbok Analytics.Silvia's problem is this: How do you combine MRI scans and artificial intelligence to generate new insights that can help both elite athletes and people suffering from diseases that affect the muscles.Springbok's sports clients include medical researchers, Olympic athletes, Major League Baseball and several professional basketball and soccer teams.This summer, a bunch of Pushkin podcasts are coming out with Olympics-inspired shows. Revisionist History has a series about America's decision to participate in Hitler's Berlin Olympics in 1936. The Happiness Lab has an interview with a coach who coaches coaches. And Cautionary Tales tells the story of the family feud that gave us both Puma and Adidas.
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    • 41 min

Customer Reviews

4.5 out of 5
219 Ratings

219 Ratings

Pollart ,

Interesting content

I agree with some of the previous reviewers that in the first year or so Jacob’s interview style left much to be desired. It seemed like he had too much coffee before the interview started and interrupted his guests for too often. But in the last 6 to 12 months, he has dramatically improved his interview style. Some other recent episodes have been really terrific. This is now on my shortlist of favorite podcasts. Keep up the good work and keep finding interesting and articulate guests that are working on important technological challenges!

kaerf81 ,

Love it!

One of my favorite podcasts!

Bruce JM ,

Very fun podcast

this podcast started slowly, but it has turned into one of my faves!

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