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What's Your Problem?

What's Your Problem?

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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.2025 iHeartMedia, Inc. © Any use of this intellectual property for text and data mining or computational analysis including as training material for artificial intelligence systems is strictly prohibited without express written consent from iHeartMedia Economics Leadership Management & Leadership
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  • Making a Universal Flu Vaccine

    Making a Universal Flu Vaccine
    May 29 2025

    Jacob Glanville is the founder and CEO of Centivax. Jacob’s problem is this: Can you create a vaccine that protects people against almost all strains of flu – even strains that haven’t evolved yet?

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    38 mins
  • Teaching Computers to Smell

    Teaching Computers to Smell
    May 22 2025

    Alex Wiltschko got obsessed with perfume when he was 12 years old. He grew up to be an AI researcher at Google. Then he started Osmo, a company that fused his job at Google with his childhood obsession: Osmo is using AI to teach computers to smell.

    The company is getting into the perfume business, and it plans eventually to use scent to diagnose disease and detect security risks.

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    36 mins
  • Can a Chatbot Treat Depression?

    Can a Chatbot Treat Depression?
    Apr 24 2025

    Nick Jacobson and his team at Dartmouth medical school spent over 100,000 hours trying to build an AI chatbot that can serve as a safe, effective therapist. After a few false starts, they seem to be on to something.

    Note: This episode contains references to self harm.

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    46 mins
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