Tejon Street in downtown Colorado Springs, Wednesday, April 22, 2020.
In November, Drew Houston became the new executive director of Citizens Project, a long-time advocacy group in Colorado Springs that focuses on issues of equity and inclusion, justice and civic engagement.
Houston is a native of Colorado Springs and got her first taste of community activism when she fought to change her school s mascot.
Now, several months into the job, Houston spoke with KRCC s Mike Procell about her new role, what led her to it and what she hopes for the organization moving forward.
KRCC s Mike Procell: In the ensuing years after high school, you held a number of social justice-oriented roles as both a volunteer and a professional. What were some of those experiences like?
Operator
Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you for joining Dropbox first-quarter 2021 earnings conference call. [Operator instructions] As a reminder, this conference call is being recorded and will be available for replay from the Investor Relations section of Dropbox s website following this call. I will now turn it over to Page Portas, investor relations at Dropbox.
Ms. Portas, please go ahead.
Page Portas
Investor Relations
Today, Dropbox will discuss quarterly financial results that were distributed earlier. Statements on this call include forward-looking statements, including future financial results, including our goals and expectations regarding future revenue growth, profitability and our ability to generate and sustain positive free cash flow, our expectations regarding anticipated impact to our financial results, including estimated impairment charges and subleasing income as a result of our shift to a virtual-first work model, expected performance of our
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Dropbox CEO Drew Houston said that the company has spent this quarter streamlining promotions for users, to ensure that they can focus on their content and their work.
It has been another strong quarter for SaaS collaboration vendor, Dropbox, as the world continues to embrace distributed and hybrid work environments. The COVID-19 pandemic has seen the collaboration sector thrive as users have had to adapt to new ways of working, forcing years worth of change in just a short few months.
However, despite a solid set of numbers in Q1, Dropbox announced earlier this year that it would be laying off 315 employees and that its COO would be stepping down, citing the need to streamline its team structure and focus on top priorities.
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Almost one in five patent cases filed in the US last year went to a new judge in Waco, near Austin. Patent trolls love Judge Alan Albright s speedy procedures, and everyone admires his patent savvy.
A Waco jury recently awarded a Fortress entity $2.2 billion in a dispute with Intel.
It s hard to find a lawyer who doesn t like Judge Alan Albright, the new federal judge in Waco, Texas. Even those who have previously sparred with him in the courtroom.
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American universities dominate, but it’s not all Ivy Leaguers on the 2021 World’s Billionaires list.
The 2,755 people on
Forbes’ 2021 World’s Billionaires list received their undergraduate degrees all over the world, from Al-Azhar University in Egypt to the Zhejiang University of Technology in China. Hundreds did not attend college at all, or left before obtaining a diploma, including a pair of Harvard dropouts who are among the five richest people in the world: Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg.
But among the billionaires who completed their undergraduate education, a few schools stand out. Harvard leads the way, with at least 29 billionaire alumni on the