-
Jan 9, 2025 | 
blog.dropbox.com | Tomi Akitunde |Melissa Kimble |Drew Pearce
To fight climate change, Recoolit is destroying hidden pollutants and turning them into carbon credits with Dropbox.
In Southeast Asia’s urban centers, where air conditioners hum on every corner, a hidden climate threat is brewing. Older cooling systems, especially those using refrigerants like R-22, leak gases that trap up to 10,000 times more heat than carbon dioxide. Despite the staggering potency of these gases, they’re barely a blip in climate conversations.
-
Oct 11, 2024 | 
blog.dropbox.com | Tomi Akitunde |Drew Pearce
Jia Rizvi's first film went from classroom project to Amazon Prime with the help of a small-but-mighty team powered by Dropbox, Replay, and Sign.
In our First Draft series, creatives look back on their first projects and share what they’ve learned from the experience.
-
Oct 9, 2024 | 
blog.dropbox.com | Benjy Hansen-Bundy |Andrew Zaleski |Tomi Akitunde
AI is automating the most time-intensive aspects of archaeology. With this leg up, can researchers delve into the deeper questions of our past?
In the year 79, when Mt. Vesuvius erupted and buried Pompeii in a pyroclastic surge, killing thousands with more thermal energy than 100,000 atomic bombs, it also dumped twenty meters of hot mud and ash on a nearby town called Herculaneum, which was something like the Malibu of ancient Rome.
-
Sep 27, 2024 | 
blog.dropbox.com | Tomi Akitunde |Drew Pearce
In the dangerous work of defending the ocean, Sea Shepherd trusts Dropbox to keep its assets (a.k.a. evidence) secure.
Earlier this year, on March 8, the crew of the Age of Union, an 180-foot vessel in the waters off of The Gambia, executed a rapid operation that sent shockwaves through the region’s illegal fishing industry. In just 24 hours, they, along with the Gambian Navy, apprehended eight industrial trawlers violating protected waters and fishing without licenses.
-
Sep 20, 2024 | 
blog.dropbox.com | Tomi Akitunde |Drew Pearce
This Australian company wants to end humanity’s reliance on plastics in 10 years. They’re using Dropbox and DocSend to help them stay efficient and secure funding for that goal.
Here’s a not-very-fun-at-all bit of trivia for you: Humans have produced 8.3 billion tons of plastic—and half of that was just produced in the last 13 years, according to the United Nations.
-
Aug 23, 2024 | 
blog.dropbox.com | Tomi Akitunde |Drew Pearce
Siraad Dirshe, a multi-hyphenate freelancer, turned to Dropbox and Dropbox Sign as her creative and business partners when she was ready to go solo.
In our First Draft series, creatives look back on their first projects and share what they've learned from the experience. When her Zoom window opens and the audio connects, Siraad Dirshe tells me she’s in a different state. And she doesn’t mean that literally, even though she’s in Los Angeles and I’m in New York.
-
Aug 16, 2024 | 
blog.dropbox.com | Drew Pearce |Wudan Yan |Tomi Akitunde
Dave Whelan finds the right combination of talent and technology for new businesses to thrive—with the help of DocSend If your startup needs to put together an entire team from scratch, don’t waste time scrolling on LinkedIn. Call Dave Whelan. As the managing director at Bespoke Strategy, he helps entrepreneurs build businesses by bringing together the right cadre to accomplish the mission. It’s kind of like Nick Fury rounding up The Avengers, except these teams have real-life heroic impact.
-
Jun 27, 2024 | 
blog.dropbox.com | Tomi Akitunde |Drew Pearce
With the help of Dropbox Replay, indie documentarians are chronicling the success of Spencer Pride, a community center dedicated to improving the quality of life for rural LGTBQ+ people.
Documentary producer/director Mitch Teplitsky and his wife were on a Sunday drive through the small, southern Indiana town of Spencer in 2019 when they noticed a rainbow flag. And not just a 12x8-incher stuck in a front yard.
-
Jun 21, 2024 | 
blog.dropbox.com | Tomi Akitunde |Drew Pearce
Social Wave helped its clients modernize their online marketing—only to realize they needed to update their approach, too.
What’s something you’re good at? Like, really good at? Something you could do with your eyes closed, hands tied behind your back? (But not really because you might need them to actually do that thing you’re so good at.)For co-founders Noel Myaing, Kan Huang, and their team at Social Wave, the answer has always been video.
-
May 14, 2024 | 
blog.dropbox.com | Tomi Akitunde |Drew Pearce |Wudan Yan
Dropbox Replay helped U.S.-based director Yun-Hong Min and his team in Korea get "The Impossible Heir" ready to stream. “Location, location, location” is just as important to TV making as it is to real-estate listings. A show’s settings act as separate characters, storytelling devices, and visual shorthand for the world the main cast and story are inviting viewers to inhabit.
