You may know Jacob Goldstein as the former host of the Planet Money Podcast.

Now he's combining his expertise about money and business with his passion for technology

on a brand new podcast called What's Your Problem?

What's your problem is a show about people who are facing some of the biggest challenges in

modern business and the problems they have to solve along the way. They're asking questions like,

how do you get people to buy houses on the internet? How do you build cars that can truly drive

themselves? How do you take a drone delivery business you've built in Rwanda and make it work in

North Carolina? In the preview Jacob chats with Ramon Von Mir, the owner of a company called Alpha

Pa. Three years ago he bought Alpha Pa for $300,000 since then he sold over $30 million worth of

the product, which just happens to be dog ramps for dog sins. Yes, he bought a company that makes

tiny ramps that allow weener dogs to get up and down from the couch. Jacob and Ramon talk about

a struggle many entrepreneurs are facing right now. How do you grow a niche business when a pandemic

blows up your supply chain? Make sure you listen to the preview of Jacob and Ramon's conversation.

You can hear more of what's your problem wherever you get your podcasts.

So, maybe just to start, can you just like off the top of your head list a bunch of the businesses

that you've started in your life? Oh, okay, yes. That's a lot.

I'm Jacob Goldstein and this is What's Your Problem. The show where we talk to entrepreneurs and

engineers about the future they're going to build. Once they solve a few problems,

my guest today is Ramon Van Mir. He's been starting companies since he got kicked out of high school

in the Netherlands more than 20 years ago. A lot of companies. A construction company, online

piata website, soap opera blog, a YouTube channel, festivals in Vegas. What else? What else? Oh,

I did an online travel company. And at the moment Ramon runs an e-commerce company that has sold

...