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David how are you today?

I'm doing very well. How are you?

Good. Seems like this is a a tech Thursday, a sass Thursday.

Want to dive in on companies that are really kind of making the news today,

which are Salesforce Snowflake and Octa.

Let's start with Salesforce.

dividend. We're starting to see dividends pop up, you know, Meta did it, now Salesforce is doing

it. 40 cents a share. That's all right. it's a start, but to me I'm looking at this as a signal.

How should we be thinking about this?

I mean last quarter we definitely had, you know, Salesforce being more cautious, more, you know, they're not going off and

buying things anymore. Is this really, is this company growing up?

Definitely. The dividend, if you go back 10 years, there's no way a dividend was anywhere near anyone's radar.

And that's, you know, that's a function of Mark Binney off, quite frankly, being Mark Benny off, right?

He's a visionary, he's a technologist, he wanted to put it all, you know, put together all these

pieces and create a great company which he did.

But I think that where the credit needs to really go

is CFO Amy Weaver.

In 2021, she became the CFO and she had the unenviable task of trying to

reine Mark Benny off in to bring more fiscal discipline to the company, right?

To say, hey, if we're going to do an acquisition,

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