and we have spent a lot of time working on that but how do you tie all of this stuff together because you have all of these tools and these different decades, none of which were designed to work together -- how can we design not to get to a better place. >> you talk about building things that utilize dropbox, let's talk about consumers. you launched carousel and it kind of fizzled out. what happened? >> people love you carousel. it's early. all of these problems are big problems. we go after them because they are important. were easy to solve, someone would have done it already. building application for the apple tv? we will look at

that. you have to start with what is the problem people have so they're all kinds of things you can do with photos and other things. when are you going to ipo? >> to have any plans right now. we raised a bunch of money at the beginning of last year so we are really enjoying having the flexibility and not having to worry about that universe. >> how people will react to every little thing you do. >> we have been heads down for the last several months recruiting and building. it's nice to be able to focus on the. >> you have done this. . --what is next. >> the opportunity in front of us is -- like, one of the biggest areas we can help people

is connecting you to the information and people that really matter to you. at our kind of scale, hundreds of millions of people on the platform, but we are building is the world's largest platform for collaboration. we want to get to a place where it's like any group of people in in anyld in any country company using whatever technology they want can work together without problems. . it will be simple. all of these archaic ways of working we have been stuck with -- how do we get everybody out of there? are the apps you think you need to build or the services you need to offer to be competitive in the enterprise against competitors like in thatt, google particular collaborative document space? >> i think it's already working. because of things we are improving is there's a lot more

we can do around communication. there's a lot we can do to tie the file world and post file world together. one difference with dropbox versus other folks is we want you to be free to use whatever tools he won. -- you want. dropbox is baked into office. we partner with microsoft. we made an integration with gmail. that kind of thing will continue. just building a strong foundation. people love dropbox because it's reliable, it's simple, it works faster. in many cases many times faster than competing products. >> are you worried about box? >> is a huge market. on a -- wherever we are today, we can be 10 times bigger. >> i guess the last thing would

be -- you know, if you are going yourtch i guess aol service, you are going to come and say this is why you have to convert. what is your pitch? how do you go in there and say that? >> in our case, it's often a lot easier than the typical sale. for most products come you get someone on the phone and you are like hey, let me tell you about our product. hey, aspbox, it's like you know, thousands of people are already using dropbox in your company and we have all of these awesome ways for you to manage that the way you manage the other infrastructure in your company. voted.eople have

i don't know how many employees they have but let's say let's get the other couple thousand on their to enjoy the same kind of benefits. >> thank you very much, drew. [applause] >> all right. abruptly and i'm not entirely sure if our next guest is ready to go but i hope shoes. meantime -- i hope she is. start up alley is starting along this corridor and i believe right there. you should vote because what happens is the start up alley company is plucked and becomes one of our battlefield companies

that gets to present on stage and in the running like everywhere hers to company. -- every rehearsed company. you can do that voting. there's a website somewhere. place your votes. our next guest is ready. i keep getting promised robots. my roomba as one of those but our guest might be able to help. please welcome catherine and frederick. ♪ hands's get a show of

first. how many people own a roomba? 25 maybe. how many of you own a drone? the same number. of you have mounted a drone to your roomba? no one yet. if you own a roomba, you can thank helen for that one. in 1990d it i robot right out of m.i.t.. you left in 2008 after 18 years there. why did you leave? things were going well. >> it was going well. we had taken it public. it was my dream come true. outot over 10,000 roombas there and robots in the military that saved the lives of hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians.

i didn't want it to be the only thing i did. the longestrs, overnight success you will ever see. companyt i had another in the end that's the fun thing and doing a startup. it in your blood it was time to go and do something else? >> i think it was. 18 years is a long time to do one thing. it was a wonderful life experience. >> most startups don't last 18 years. in 2008, did you know you wanted to do drugs? >> -- drones? >> yes. the place you can make the most capability. with a droneround much easier than with a ground robot.

outdoors is almost a superhighway for the drones. >> at that time, drones were not really a thing. it's only the last two or three years. drones you think in 2008 were already possible and what did you see there? cheat and getto where you need to go very easily. outdoors above the treetops, about the telephone poles, it's really free space. not to avoid a plane once but in general, it's a big space and a very small drone. >> was the technology there in 2008? >> it had just come about when we started doing gps stabilization. incident needing a qualified pilot to fly, someone really

trained, you can now set it and forget it and the drone can in one place automatically. i saw that as the key that would make things easy for everyone to fly, not just rumors but people in industries. companies don't like to train pilots and have to give them continuous training. >> did you have done that as i robot? they have a lot of resources. could you have done flying robots there? >> we were having such success that itround robots would have been a stretch to jump in and create a drone company. there's a glut of robotics

technology i'm bringing to the it's industry but also really drone technology. the aerodynamics, the control systems are very specific. >> let's talk about the drones you have on the market now will stop they are different -- now. they are different from the drones people are thinking about now because they are tethered. >> we have two drones. customers about using them, what they told me was they are great but only last like 20 minutes. we put it on a tether so it can go up and stay up and you can get a birds eye view of an entire facility. it's kind of like a satellite ,ystem except it's real time high definition, and it always stays where you want it.

it doesn't get flummoxed by cloud cover and other things. >> how high can they go? >> to 500 feet and stay there for 100 hours. >> the other one you have is the pocket drone. it's more agile. we built these larger drones to go into building's first two help soldiers and police stay at to say that you a safe standoff distance. the feedback was great. they said if you could make one that put in your pocket, we would take them. that is our pocket flyer drone. there is not a tether. without the tether, it would last 10 minutes.

,hen it goes into a building the tether is an enabling technology. >> at every officer has a drone yet cap how close are you to that -- not every officer has aged drone yet. how close are you to that? >> we are hoping to leverage that to get drones to all of the police officers and firefighters and swat teams around the world. like the enterprise drone business is going well for you. you have raised $12.5 million so far. you raise another round this year. how much did you raise this year? >> we raise $3.5 million this year. >> do have a good amount of money in the bank at this point. what is your research focused on right now? >> we've been looking at the

consumer to run space. drone space.ce. -- a lot of the drones have a gimbal underneath. we've got that was a little backwards. if we could just fly level and put the camera into the system to make it much more simple. simplicity is really good. complexity is the enemy. we have been looking at an entire different drone design that makes it more portable and i think we are really onto something. >> i think we have one of those here. i hope we can get one onto the stage. just one moment. there are going to try to not get killed by the drone in the next five minutes. it's flyingee how

completely level instead of tilting into the motion. can replace you mechanical complexity with computation. we consider that a really good thing. so that's our level one drone. >> very nice. [applause] benefitsthey get some from a gimbal that hangs underneath it? >> you can. we still have to use electronic image stabilization in the camera but those large microscopic motions, there is no need to take them out. we believe that simplicity of flight is the key. without drones, you are just flying the camera and you have to be able to control the shot.

you don't want to have to plan and script everything. you want to be able to get that shot immediately and that's the system we created at the level one. >> looking at these consumer there are quite a few competitors on the market already. fair to say they all have a lot of money. do you think enough of a distinguishing feature to compete with these guys? >> i believe there is. our consumers tell us if they want the small size, we talked dronest of people with with the gimbal system that goes bad. they are complex systems because they are tilting the camera and all of the wiring of the camera has to go through these multiple degrees. anytime your place mechanical

complexity with electronic image stimulus nation, that's a good thing. i believe the drones will morph into designs like this. there is another side when it comes to flying drones is the software side. this one is controlled by an iphone. it is hard to fly a drone. i have crashed many of them and i know what i am talking about. what are you doing to make that easier? you are used to trying to position yourself, your field of view in a picture or map. a swipe to fly interface. that is that we have on the

level one. instead of learning to fly with these complex joysticks, we are making it easier for people to learn how to fly right from their cell phones. it goes to the portability. you probably have your cell phone with you when you leave the house. smallermake it a little . put it right in your backpack. have your phone with you. you are good to go. the best drone is the one you have with you. this will be a fully functional capable drone, high resolution, camera, a very rugged package. >> one of the coolest features is the geo-fencing. what is that? helen: one of the features, we

call it geo-fencing. instead of having to figure out how to put a fence up in a map, you walk the area where you want the drone to stay. werepeople, we found, intimidated. if you walk the geo-fence, the drone will always stay in that boundary. we will connect it to keep out with another start up company that is making a database of where you cannot fly. for example, the white house. drone to the white house. i did not fly it. faa puts out alerts, like

for the forest fires. many people did not know it was dangerous to fly near forest fires and they were flying the drones and hindering the rescue the fires because helicopters could not fly because they were afraid they might hit a drone. notifying the users they should not be flying in that area. most people understand they do down.nt things to burn >> we have been talking about this as if it were on the market. helen: it will be on the market next year. , built akickstarter community giving us advice and information about what they would do with their drone.

>> was that the main reason you did a kickstarter? you are pretty well-funded company. what we did with the room ba, we did some focus groups, and you throw it on to the market and hope for the best. there, we have a new idea, see if there's interest. solicit what else you want in your drone. >> how many presales did you have on kickstarter? helen: 1500. >> a good number. this drone is called the level one. what happens when you reach level two? helen: this is a prototype

system. to get something into production does take a lot of time and a lot of work. videos areay, robot a dime a dozen. robots, very infrequent in the world of -- it does take a great effort to get there. that is what we are focused on right now. >> you have been doing this for seven years. for 18. at i robot works inyou see sci-fi 10 years from now? drone definitely in the space. i believe in delivery drones. you will be getting your packages delivered, you will be getting your pizza delivered with drones. >> sci-fi works pizza delivery

grounds. boeing of to be the drones. >> do you believe in the idea of drone delivery? helen: we can do it from a technical point of view. it will take some regulatory and cultural changes. i believe the faa is right not to allow it today. but to allow more experimentation, that would be a great benefit to the community. .t will come over time they have signaled they are very open to changing the rules. you really should have to prove that it is safe when you are carrying a five pound payload over a populated area. helicopters fly overpopulated

cities day in and day out and nobody pays any mind to them. i look forward to getting my pizza delivered. [applause] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national able satellite corp. 2015] captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption contents and accuracy. visit ncicap.org

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>> now, a discussion with six former presidential speech writers spanning from president nixon to president obama. they talk about their experiences writing speeches in moments of crisis including the vietnam war, the space shuttle challenger and columbia explosions and the columbine high school shootings.

>> good afternoon. made a film in 2006 about the obama campaign and one of my favorite parts about the film was getting to spend time with the speech writers. when i met dick at a screening of the film he started telling me stories. his stories were so rich and so colorful that i thought this would be a great subject for a documentary. my friend told me about robert who i will now introduce because he wrote a really fabulous book called white house ghosts about telling all these stories that we now together are working to put into film. he is the -- sorry. he is the managing editor for opinion at u.s. news and world

report and he blogs and he writes himself and he works at the hill, he works for the boston globe. he's been covering politics a long time but he really knows the ins and outs of speech writing and knows all these guys really well and know where all the bodies are buried. robert. and you're in for a real treat. thanks. [applause] > thank you. so the space shuttle has blown up. there has been a terrorist attack. there's been a mass shooting. and the nation, as the song goes, turns its lonely eyes to

the president. in the modern era, dated to at least december 7, 19 41, the president has not only been the commander in chief but the comforter in chief, the mourner in chief. the job description of the president in the modern era now includes expressing our national outrage, our national grief at good moments, expressing our national joy. and clarifying the meaning of what has happened and where the country goes forward from here. so if the nation turns to the president to whom does the president turn for help in stepping up to this unbiden moment? there is not yet, as they say, an app for that. so the president has to go old school. george washington in his first term was thinking about maybe stepping down after a term in office so he asked james madison to help him write some fair well address.