1. 0, box ceo and cofounder aaron levie. Aaron how you doing . Emily how you doing . Aaron good, thank you. Emily blue sneakers today, i appreciate that. What are the socks . Aaron these are cloud socks. Emily ok. Aaron official cloud socks. For the enterprise offer industry. Emily i like it. You grew up in seattle. Aaron yes. Emily what kind of kid were you . Aaron probably not atypical of, certainly, people in the Tech Industry. So, i spent far too long, far too much time, on the internet. Not, sort of, large volume of friends. Most of those that were my friends i founded the company, i founded box with. We were growing up in the shadow of microsoft. Emily did you idolize jeff bezos and bill gates . Aaron yeah, everybody knew the bill gates story kind of by heart. Whats cool about microsoft is that you can actually go and they let you be a product tester. So a lot of people in high school would actually go to microsoft and test out new products and then they would give you like a fre
Country still has horrible infrastructure problems. When you come in and look at the situation, haiti is closed for business. Stephanie but some say there are huge opportunities to be had. If you invest here, the returns would be very, very good. Stephanie can private investment save haiti . We have a beautiful people. And we would like for them to be able to benefit from what god has given us in haiti. Today, they are not. Stephanie haiti. Most likely, the name sparks an image in your mind, and it is probably not a good one. Even before the magnitude 7. 0 earthquake rocked the country on january 12, 2010, life in haiti was pretty bleak. Founded by former slaves in 1804, haiti has suffered through a series of oppressive governments, including the notorious duvalier, father and son president s. According to the world bank, most haitians survive on less than 2. 50 a day. It is the poorest country in the western hemisphere. The earthquake pushed the country to the very brink. Fmr. Prime m
When you look at the situation, haiti is closed for business. Stephanie but there are huge opportunities to be had. Can private investment save haiti . We have a good for people and we would like tothem to benefit from what god gave us in haiti. Today, they are not. Stephanie 80. Most likely, the name sparks an image in your mind and it is probably not good. Even before the magnitude 7. 0 earthquake rocked the country i generate 12 2010,haiti was pretty bleak. Founded by former slaves in 1804 haiti has severed through a series of oppressive governments, including the notorious father and son president s. According to the world bank most haitians survive on less than 2. 5 a day. Is the poorest country in the western hemisphere. Yes great push the country to the very brink. With one of the worst moment in our history. All the Public Ministry should was knocked down. Bit over 200,000 people that were homeless. It was an armageddonlike situation. Stephanie the haitian government was prepar
Case to take up if it is going to take up a case, is this case. Coming at a particularly optune time. Reporter the Supreme Court agreed to look at a new york case that found the federal defense marriage act denies legally married same sex couples the benefits. Our coverage continues with patty lee live in San Francisco with reaction from two key players and one couple that remains in limbo, patty . Reporter todays announcement caught a lot of people from off guard, same sex couples hoping to wed to pioneers briefly legalized it in the city. Reporter tom picked out items for his wedding to his lifelong partner but they have not set a date. They are waiting for the Supreme Court to make a decision on gay marriage that will effect them and millions of couples across the country. This means there say chance for an even greater resolution that the Supreme Court can recognize that marriage is a constitutional right for all americans. Not just for californians. Reporter stewart and john, plai
Right now today, we have the technology to begin the process of significantly transforming our energy system. We know how to dod it with todays technology we know how to do it with todays technology, and that technology will only be improved in months and years to come. Let me just give you a few examples of some of the good news a thats happening in terms news thats happening in terms of the ability that we now have to move to Sustainable Energy. The cost of solar, which certainly will be one of the major Sustainable Energy technologies that we look to in the future, that Technology Cost continues to plummet. The Solar Energy Industry association, in a report issued just last week, reported that the average weighted cost of a solar p. V. System was 2. 59 per watt, a 15 drop from the year before. And according to the Solar Energy Industry association, utility scale solar, perhaps the best comparison to utilityscale conventional electricity generation, now costs, on average, 7. 7 cents