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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.

Episodes

The Company Where Everyone Has Their Own AI Agent

21 May 2026

40m

Inventing a Better Apple

14 May 2026

33m

AI processed

Inventing a new apple variety requires balancing consumer preferences for taste and texture with the practical demands of large-scale production, such as storage longevity, shipping durability, and climate resilience. The modern apple industry evolved significantly due to the adoption of dwarfing rootstocks, which lowe...

Nuclear fusion is evolving from a long-term scientific dream into a tangible commercial sector driven by private investment and engineering innovation. While grid-scale electricity remains the ultimate goal, companies like SHINE Technologies demonstrate that immediate value exists in producing medical isotopes and prov...