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Who they are, where they came from, and what their interests are. Jonathan this is the obligatory questioning time when i throw a bunch of buzzwords at you and make you respond. Apologies for that. What about ai . When it really works . I think we will use it. But right now no one wants to unleash skynet. But when we get better . Jonathan is there really going to be this robot overlord future where we are from slaves to the machine . Leslie we kind of our already. You were asking for your phone was. Before we came onstage. Jonathan that was about connecting with this fine audience, so that the...

You say its not quite there yet. People are trying to recruit talent. There is only a select group, hypothetically there is only a select group of people that one can pull from for this talent. Is that hypothesis correct . Or can you find great engineers across the country . Where would you look . Leslie well, thats a good question. I would just look around. Look around the room. Im sure that there are some of them here right now. I think that where i would look is any place that is doing that type of work, right . And its not just confined to m. I. T. , stamford, cal. Its having it in detroit...

Toddlers into her house. Would you do the same thing . Excuse me. All right, president obama, got somewhat emotional last night during his farewell address, when he addressed, spokes directly to his wife michelle. And one of his daughters was also sitting next to michelle obama. Here it is. Malea and sash, a under the strangest of circumstances you have become two amazing young women, youre smart and youre beautiful but more importantly you are kind and you are thoughtful and you are full of passion. And okay, that got to me because wife daughters as well, so i started crying. I cry all the ti...

Test. Test. Test. Youve said that Silicon Valley is actively hostile to diversity. How has that not affected the way that things work at slack . A sort of blind admissions test you do up front or has it affected . Its the intentionality that people at flak from stewart has. We have conversations at flak ive never had any other place how were doing hiring and who were hiring and we could care less if you went to cal, stanford, san jose state or university of miami. We dont care. We want you to work at these companies and we dont care about that and i think that has been a huge part. What has al...

Them back at this table. Welcome. And i have to say, in interest of full disclosure, we just did Something Like this at Columbia University with 1000 students. There is Something Special about the curiosity and the interest of young people. Wanting to know how do they learn from you, wanting to know, if you were starting over, what would you do, wanting to know about values. You do a lot of this. Warren well, about the friendship, we met on july 5, 1991 and hit it off immediately. Bill was a little reluctant at first, but he got there. Charlie reluctant to come. Warren yeah, definitely. If it ...