What’s Your Problem?
In recent decades, medical research has fundamentally changed how we think about heart disease. This fresh understanding has opened up new ways to prevent heart attacks. Eric Topol is a cardiologist and the founder of the Scripps Research Translational Institute in San Diego. Eric’s problem is this: How can doctors use recent technological developments to do a better job at preventing heart attacks?
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Patching Together a Quilting Empire
Al Doan is the executive chairman of the Missouri Star Quilt company. Al’s problem is this: How do you combine low tech and high tech to turn a niche hobby into a wildly successful company?…
Revealing How Much Health Care Really Costs
Chris Severn is the co-founder and CEO of Turquoise Health. Chris’s problem is this: How do you figure out the real price trip of a trip to the hospital — before it happens? People have…
Saving the World with Poop
Mariana Matus is co-founder and CEO of Biobot Analytics. Her problem: How do you turn sewage into useful public health data? When she and her co-founder launched the company, wastewater epidemiology was a niche field…
Building an Empire on Free Code
Matt Mullenweg co-created WordPress, the open-source software that powers more than 40% of all the websites in the world. He’s also the founder of a for-profit company called Automattic. Matt’s problem is this: How do…
Selling Billions of Crickets a Year
Mohammed Ashour is the co-founder and CEO of Aspire Food Group. The company just built the biggest cricket factory in the history of the world. His problem: How do you sell billions of bugs a…
From Patented: Inventing the Wheeled Suitcase
We put man on the moon before we invented the wheeled suitcase. Why did it take so long? Find out in this episode of Patented: History of Inventions, where host Dallas Campbell is joined by expert…
How the Nerds Conquered the NBA
Rajiv Maheswaran is the co-founder and president of Second Spectrum. Rajiv and his company figured out how to turn raw sports data into useful information for coaches. Today, the company works with basketball and soccer…
The Trick to Flying Cheap
David Neeleman has founded five airlines, including JetBlue. He recently launched a new airline, called Breeze. His problem: How do you use technology to bring down the cost of airfares? He’s been working on that…
Beer Without the Buzz
Bill Shufelt is the founder and CEO of Athletic Brewing Company. His problem: How do you turn non-alcoholic beer from a punchline into something people drink all the time? If you’d like to keep up…
John Green Tests the Limits of YouTube
John Green is the author of The Fault in Our Stars and six other novels. He also co-founded a company that makes educational videos that have been viewed billions of times. John’s problem: How do…