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🗓️ 12 May 2022
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
We're sharing a special preview of the new podcast, What’s Your Problem? from Pushkin Industries.
What’s Your Problem? explains the problems really smart people are trying to solve right now, from creating a drone delivery service to building a car that can truly drive itself. Jacob Goldstein, former host of Planet Money, talks with innovators about the future they’re trying to build – and the problems they have to solve to get there. In this preview, Jacob talks with Ramon van Meer, who is trying to figure out how to grow a niche business (ramps for wiener dogs!) when a pandemic blows up your supply chain.
You can listen to What’s Your Problem at https://podcasts.pushkin.fm/wypmoney.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, Slate Money listeners. Today, I'm sharing a different podcast, not mine. Jacob Goldstein. You know Jacob. He's |
| 0:07.7 | awesome. He used to be with Planet Money. He's not anymore. He has been on Slate Money a few times. |
| 0:14.6 | He's written a great book, all about money. But the reason why he's here in this show is he has a brand new podcast of his own that he's put together with our friends over at Pushkin. |
| 0:26.1 | It's called What's Your Problem? |
| 0:28.1 | And what he's doing is he's looking at big problems, right? |
| 0:31.6 | Like buying houses on the internet or building self-driving cars or taking a drone delivery business in Rwanda and making |
| 0:39.7 | it work in North Carolina. So big problems, big solutions, lots of great reporting. In this preview, |
| 0:47.3 | you're about to hear Jacob chats with Ramon Van Meir. He has a company called AlphaPour, which makes |
| 0:53.3 | dog ramps for Daxons, you know, so they can |
| 0:55.8 | walk up the ramp to get to the couch. |
| 0:58.2 | He bought AlphaPore. |
| 0:59.7 | He didn't start it. |
| 1:00.7 | He bought it for about $300,000. |
| 1:02.7 | He managed to sell over $30 million worth of these ramps. |
| 1:07.3 | But then the pandemic happened and the supply chain basically disappeared. So what does he do then? |
| 1:14.8 | Here is a preview of Jacob and Ramon's conversation. I hope you enjoy it. And you can hear the |
| 1:21.0 | full episode and more from What's Your Problem wherever you get your podcasts. So maybe just to start, can you just like off the top of your |
| 1:30.2 | head list a bunch of the businesses that you've started in your life? Oh, okay. Yes. |
| 1:38.1 | That's a lot. I'm Jacob Goldstein and this is What's Your Problem, the show where we talk to |
| 1:43.2 | entrepreneurs and engineers |
| 1:44.5 | about the future they're going to build once they solve a few problems. |
| 1:48.7 | My guest today is Ramon Van Meir. |
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