It's time for episode 375 of the Clockwise Podcasts from Relay FM recorded Wednesday, December 2nd, 2020.

Clockwise, 4 people, Tech podcast that pops up where you least expect it.

My name is Dan Morn, and I am joined across the internet by my good friend, my pal, my co-host and

my dungeon buddy, Mr. Micah Sargent. How are you doing today, Micah?

I'm delightful after that intro. That was a great one. I don't know if the live stream heard that

chuckle, but that was not an acting chuckle. That was very real. I assume all your chuckles at my

intros are real. Is that not true? Am I learning this just now?

97% of them are very real. I will let you decide what 3% were fake.

Fine. Fine. All right. Well, good news is if Micah's chuckles are fake, we have people here to give us real chuckles. Our guest this week to my left, it's Washington Post Technology Reporter and my former colleague at Mac World.

Heather Kelly, welcome back, Heather.

Thanks for having me.

And to my left, it is the chief emoji officer.

It's Jeremy Burge.

Hello, Jeremy.

And it's lovely to be back.

Feels like it's been, who knows how long, but good to be here.

We can't measure time anymore. It's fine. We've got, but we've got just half an hour, which is the

time that we can measure. And I'm going to kick things off. Salesforce bought Slack for almost

$28 billion. And, you know, Slack, I think, has become about so much more than just business.

Like, it is a very popular online community tool. And so I'm curious to know how, if at all,

you think this acquisition might change Slack in the way that many of us use it. Heather?

I don't think Salesforce is stupid necessarily. I don't think they're going to go and change

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