Think about, do you want to own Salesforce? It's a good company. Don't just do nothing and magically have shares appear in your account and then figure out what you want to do with them. Consider whether you want that to happen, and don't let it be by default. What does that mean? I mean that if you do nothing and the deal closes, you become a Salesforce stockholder. The big point I want every shareholder to remember, if you're still holding your shares, this is a cash-and-stock deal. But don't worry too much that it seems to be dragging because this is fairly standard. If we don't get an approval, the company will say something that, take a little more time, but we expect to close now in the third quarter or something like that. I expect that as that end-of-July deadline approaches, we're going to get a little bit more information. Theoretically, the government has a time limit, and once they have to make an analysis, but the reality is, if you're one of these companies and your choice is between giving the government an extension and having them just deny your deal or having to fight it out in court, you're going to let take all the time maybe. It's just a function of these reviews can simply take a lot of time. I would not be shocked if this closing slips a little bit, and I don't think anyone should be concerned if that happens. But we're at the end of May and I haven't seen any big update on this, where the status of this is. Now the thing here is, Slack, both these companies are saying, yeah, we still expect to close this deal at the end of July. Think literally hundreds of lawyers in the country poring over documents to figure out what do you need to turn over to the government. They take time and they are expensive to do. When I was practicing as a lawyer, I worked on a few second requests. What it basically means, essentially, is they want more time to think about it, and they want a little bit more information to dig into some of the details a little bit more closely. This is not a super good sign, but it's not that unusual either for these big antitrust deals. Where is that? Well, back in February, the issue was called the second request. The big win though, the big approval you need is the Justice Department in the United States. That was something that needed to happen. Just last week, Australian regulators officially approved the deal. There's two things to point out here, stuff I've seen so far. What's going on with that? Let's take a quick look at this as the deal. I really don't think you care about the details of what's going on with the business as long as this still remains on track because that overshadows everything. Quite honestly, if you're a shareholder, I don't think you care about their earnings. This will be a little bit different, the way I'm going to talk about Slack because they have that acquisition by Salesforce that is in the works.
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