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We're going to break down the news like we do every Friday here on the podcast.

We're not broadcasting live this week on LinkedIn.

I'm in a place with terrible service, but we're going to do the news. Nonetheless, joining us as always is Ron John Roy of

margins. Ron John, welcome to the show. Hello. Great to have you back. Ron John, your piece on

Alexa really went bananas over the weekend last weekend. I feel like we kind of undersolded on the show

last week. I will admit it inspired of undersolded it on the show last week.

I will admit, it inspired me to buy two HomePod minis and start trying to home kidify my

apartment. So we'll see how that goes. And we also have Tom Totan here with us. He is a reporter

for the Wall Street Journal who just wrote a terrific story about Salesforce.

And Salesforce has been all over the news this week, largely thanks to Tom.

So I'm super stoked that he's here with us.

Tom, welcome to the show.

Thank you so much for having me, Alex.

Great to have you.

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