What's Your Problem?

By: iHeartPodcasts and Pushkin Industries
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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.
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Episodes
  • Stopping HIV Without a Vaccine

    Stopping HIV Without a Vaccine
    Mar 13 2025

    Jared Baeten is senior vice president in virology at Gilead Sciences. Jared's problem is this: In a world without a vaccine, how do you make a medicine that people will actually take to help prevent HIV?

    There’s already a daily pill that reduces the risk of getting HIV, but a majority of people who are at high risk are unwilling or unable to take it.

    So Jared and his colleagues are developing a new drug, lenacapivir, designed to be given as a shot once every six months.

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    28 mins
  • Harnessing the Heat Deep Beneath Our Feet

    Harnessing the Heat Deep Beneath Our Feet
    Mar 6 2025

    Carlos Araque is the co-founder and CEO of Quaise Energy. Carlos' problem is this: How do you make drilling for geothermal energy as routine, widespread, and profitable as drilling for oil or gas? The answer involves digging deeper into the Earth than anyone has ever dug before.

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    49 mins
  • The Brain Implant That Could Change Medicine

    The Brain Implant That Could Change Medicine
    Feb 27 2025

    Ben Rapoport is the co-founder and CSO of Precision Neuroscience. Ben's problem is this: Can you build a device that allows a paralyzed person to use a computer with only their thoughts – without damaging their brain?

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    29 mins

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I find it strainge that you guys did not know what pii is . most public employees take lots of training every year on that. you need to prep better

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