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  • Teaching Cars to Think Like People

    Teaching Cars to Think Like People
    Teaching Cars to Think Like People

    Aicha Evans is the CEO of Zoox. Her problem: Designing a car that knows what to do when it pulls up to a 4-way stop.

    AI is transforming the way cars work. But AI still struggles with predicting the behavior of human drivers. To build a car that can truly drive itself, Aicha and the rest of the industry will have to solve this problem. How do you teach self-driving cars to understand people?

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  • Launching Drone Delivery

    Launching Drone Delivery
    Launching Drone Delivery

    Keenan Wyrobek is the co-founder of Zipline. His problem: How do you fill the skies with delivery drones and keep them from crashing into each other?

    Zipline’s drones already make hundreds of deliveries a day in Ghana and Rwanda. But to expand to the U.S. he has to solve a fundamental problem. Americans’ love of freedom and the open skies makes it hard to build a drone business here.

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  • Becoming a Dog Ramp Mogul

    Becoming a Dog Ramp Mogul
    Becoming a Dog Ramp Mogul

    Ramon van Meer is the CEO of Alpha Paw. His problem: How do you grow a niche business (ramps for weiner dogs!) when a pandemic blows up your supply chain and Apple ruins your targeted ads?

    Ramon has sold over $30 million worth of dog ramps. That’s a lot of dog ramps. But in order to do so he has to deal with some of the biggest companies on earth. On today’s show, we talk about how he has built his company on top of the tech giants – and how they threaten his very existence.

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  • Introducing What’s Your Problem

    Introducing What’s Your Problem
    Introducing What’s Your Problem

    Former Planet Money host Jacob Goldstein talks to entrepreneurs and engineers about how they’ll change the world — once they solve a few problems. Coming March 17th.

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