Flying on Battery Power

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Anders Forslund is the co-founder and CEO of Heart Aerospace. Anders’ problem is this: How do you build a commercial airplane that can fly on battery power — and win the approval of regulators around the world?

As other sectors are decarbonizing, emissions from aviation are projected to triple by 2050. This is partly because figuring out how to build a commercial plane that doesn’t burn jet fuel is a very, very hard problem that Anders has been trying to solve for years.

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Bringing Back the American Hoodie

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Bayard Winthrop is the founder and CEO of American Giant. Bayard’s problem is this: How do you make clothes in America — and compete in a global economy?

Today’s show is about the future of American manufacturing. But it is also about something very simple: A sweatshirt made in America. It costs $138, and it is wildly popular.

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How to Save the Most Lives

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Farzad Mostashari is the co-founder and CEO of Aledade. Farzad’s problem is this: How can we pay doctors to keep us healthy, rather than treating us after we get sick?

People have been struggling to solve this problem for decades. But for a bunch of reasons you’ll hear about on the show, Farzad and his colleagues may be the ones to finally solve it.

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From Story of the Week with Joel Stein: Billionaires Prepping for the Apocalypse

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This bonus episode is from Story of the Week with Joel Stein, a new Pushkin podcast. On Story of the Week, journalist Joel Stein chooses an article that fascinates him, convinces the writer to tell him about it, and then interrupts a good conversation by talking about himself.  

This episode is about the Medium story “Survival of the Richest” by Douglas Rushkoff. In it, Rushkoff discovers a whole industry catering to billionaires looking to buy things to prepare for the apocalypse. 

You can read the full story here: https://onezero.medium.com/survival-of-the-richest-9ef6cddd0cc1

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The Investors Everybody Ignored

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Sallie Krawcheck is the founder and CEO of Ellevest, an investment firm for women that has over $1 billion in assets under management.

In her career in finance, Sallie was often one of the only women in the room. But even she had to be convinced that women would benefit from an investment firm created just for them.

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Sam Bankman-Fried Revisited

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In May of this year, we interviewed Sam Bankman-Fried, the young billionaire philanthropist who started the crypto exchange FTX.

Last week, in a matter of a few days, FTX collapsed and filed for bankruptcy, and Sam resigned. It’s unclear if customers or investors will ever get their money back.

In light of the news, we are replaying the episode — and trying to figure out what to make of everything Sam told us earlier this year.

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Machiavelli’s Tips for Getting Ahead at Work

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Stacey Vanek Smith is the author of “Machiavelli for Women: Defend Your Worth, Grow Your Ambition, and Win the Workplace.” Her problem is this: How do women get ahead in a workplace that is stacked against them?

Stacey is my old co-host from Planet Money. Today, she brings us strategies from the 16th-century writer for how to thrive in an unjust world. This episode was recorded in front of a live audience.

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Google’s Journey to the Edge of Search

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Cathy Edwards is vice president and GM of Search at Google. Cathy’s problem is this: how do you teach computers to tell people what they want to know, even if they don’t know how to ask?

Google’s last leap: Moving from search results based on keywords to search results based on concepts. The next step: Figuring out how to let people search using not just words, but combinations of words and images.

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Paying People to Turn Off the Fridge

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Matt Duesterberg is co-founder and president of OhmConnect.

Matt’s problem: How do you build a business around getting people to save energy? Not all that much. And not all the time. But just enough, at just the right time. OhmConnect is paying customers to reduce their household’s energy usage at times of high demand. The company is a window into the bizarre world of energy markets — and human behavior.

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Turning Writers into Publishers

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Chris Best is co-founder and CEO of Substack.

Chris’s problem: How do you help writers make a living from a thousand true fans?

Substack is a company that helps writers send subscription-based email newsletters. Which, as Chris says, is a very simple idea, built on top of some very grandiose beliefs about culture and ideas and commerce.

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