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The AI that Might Take My Job (And Yours)
Season 1 Episode 54
Andrew Mason is the founder and CEO of Descript. Descript's software has made editing audio and video much simpler.
The company recently received a …
3 years, 4 months ago
The Hottest Thing In Energy Storage
Season 1 Episode 53
Andrew Ponec is co-founder and CEO of the energy storage company Antora Energy.
Andrew's problem is this: How can you store renewable energy in a wa…
3 years, 4 months ago
Using Bacteria to Dye Jeans
Season 1 Episode 52
Tammy Hsu and Michelle Zhu are the cofounders of Huue.
Their problem is this: how do you get bacteria to produce indigo dye? And how do you do it ch…
3 years, 4 months ago
The Quest for the Factory-Built House
Season 1 Episode 51
Today's show is about a problem people have been trying to solve for a hundred years: how can we mass produce houses, like we do cars?
Listen for a h…
3 years, 5 months ago
Building Houses Like Tesla Builds Cars
Season 1 Episode 50
Alexis Rivas is the co-founder and CEO of Cover.
His problem is: How do you build houses in a factory, the way you build cars? And how do you do it s…
3 years, 5 months ago
Human Bones, Made In the Lab
Season 1 Episode 49
Nina Tandon is the co-founder and CEO of a tissue engineering company called EpiBone.
Her problem is this: How do you grow custom bone from patients'…
3 years, 6 months ago
Tiny Chips, Giant Stakes
Season 1 Episode 48
Microchips are the most important driver of technological progress in the modern world, and governments are fighting over who gets to make them.
Righ…
3 years, 6 months ago
Problems Solved: Drones, Bananas and Real Estate*
Season 1 Episode 47
It's our first anniversary and—almost 50 episodes in—Jacob Goldstein checks in with three past guests.
Drone delivery guy Keenan Wyrobek thinks he ha…
3 years, 6 months ago
Faster, Cheaper Drugs with AI
Season 1 Episode 46
Alice Zhang is the co-founder and CEO of Verge Genomics. Alice's problem is this: How do you use artificial intelligence to drive down the price of d…
3 years, 6 months ago
Creating the Uncrashable Car
Season 1 Episode 45
When Austin Russell was 17 years old, he founded Luminar Technologies to work on a remote sensing technology called Lidar.
Today, Austin is one of t…
3 years, 7 months ago