Podcast Episodes

Reinventing Mining to Power the World

Season 1 Episode 110

Moving from fossil fuels to renewable energy will require huge amounts of copper, lithium, and other metals. Kurt House is the co-founder and CEO of KoBold Metals. The company recently made a huge co…

Published on 1 year, 3 months ago

Inventing a Vaccine for Bees

Season 1 Episode 109

Dalial Freitak and Annette Kleiser are the co-founders of Dalan Animal Health, a company that has brought to market the first vaccine for insects. Their problem is this: How do you turn a discovery a…

Published on 1 year, 3 months ago

A Better Way to Make the Chemicals in Everything

Season 1 Episode 108

Sean Hunt is the co-founder and CTO of Solugen, a company that sells around $100 million a year of industrial chemicals. Sean's problem is this: How do you make the chemicals that go into everything …

Published on 1 year, 3 months ago

How Refrigeration Changed the World

Season 1 Episode 107

Refrigeration is an underrated technology. It completely transformed what billions of people eat every day. 

Today’s guest, Nicola Twilley, tells the story of refrigeration in her new book, Frostbite…

Published on 1 year, 4 months ago

Detecting Deepfakes With AI

Season 1 Episode 106

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 bat…

Published on 1 year, 4 months ago

Turning Old Cans Into Clean Energy

Season 1 Episode 105

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 c…

Published on 1 year, 4 months ago

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

Season 1 Episode 104

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 a…

Published on 1 year, 4 months ago

Using Computer Vision to See What Coaches Can’t

Season 1 Episode 103

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 professi…

Published on 1 year, 5 months ago

Scanning Every Muscle to Help Olympians Get Stronger

Season 1 Episode 102

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,…

Published on 1 year, 5 months ago

Making Blood Vessels in a Factory

Season 1 Episode 101

Laura Niklason is the co-founder and CEO of Humacyte. Laura's problem is this: How can you use human cells to create blood vessels that surgeons can pull out of a bag and implant into patients? Altho…

Published on 1 year, 5 months ago