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So head over to tech Tech Ranch. Hello and welcome to an equity shot. I'm Natasha Masquerainis with the most exciting

Slack message you will probably get all year indeed, Salesforce's purchase of

Slack. Joining me is Danny Kretin, Tech Crunch's Managing Editor.

How are you, Danny?

I'm very behind because I didn't look at Slack all day.

It's perfect, perfectly timed episode in that case.

I am also joined by Alex Wilhelm reporter at T.C. Alex, how's it going?

I'm good. I'm hype. I love days like this. I love news. I love when things happen, I love when things change.

So Natasha, I am overly caffeinated and 100% here.

It is so fun to be at a publication like Tech Crunch at this time,

because it's just you see all these nerds pretending like it's Christmas

the moment a deal goes through and I didn't know two years ago that I would be in this spot

pretending this is Christmas forget just 25th December 1st man so today we're going to talk about of course the deal,

but also get into why in the world Salesforce would do this.

Is Slack a horrible company and that's why it got bought.

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