Today, we’ve got a guest host! I’m partnering with my partner in crime, Mike Gerholdt, as he’s taking over the host seat and interviewing our good friend and colleague, Domenique Buxton.

Domenique is the VP Executive Creative Director for Trailblazers and Trailhead. She has also played a major part in the development of Salesforce characters, something that has built connection and meaning within the Salesforce community. 

Throughout Mike’s conversation with Domenique, they discuss the history of the Salesforce characters, including how they came to be, why they were created, and more!

Show Highlights:

  • The origin story of Salesforce characters.
  • Why they created the characters the way they did.
  • How the characters have evolved over the years.
  • How the characters got connected with a deeper purpose.
  • Where community feedback has been crucial in the development of Salesforce characters.
  • Some of Domenique’s special memories from events.
  • The teamwork that brought the characters to light.

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Episode Transcript

Josh Birk:
Hello, SF Dev Pod people. It’s Josh Birk, your host for the Salesforce Developer Podcast. And here on the podcast, you would normally hear stories and insights from developers. However, today I have partnered with my partner in crime, Mike Gerholdt, to take over the show. We were on his show a few weeks back with Drew Tober talking once again about stress in the workplace. Today, I’m hosting him and his guest, my good friend and colleague Domenique Buxton, talking about a history of the Salesforce characters that you have grown to know and love. So without further ado, over to Mike and Domenique.

Mike Gerholdt:
Welcome to the Salesforce Admins Podcast, where we talk about product, community, and career, to help you become an awesome admin. This week we’re talking with Domenique Buxton, VP executive creative director for Trailblazers and Trailhead about the history of our Salesforce characters, along with some Easter eggs that the creative team includes, and well, just a host of other things. So let’s get Dom on the podcast.

Domenique Sillett Buxton:
Hello. Hello.

Mike Gerholdt:
Hi, Dom.

Domenique Sillett Buxton:
Hi.

Mike Gerholdt:
So your title’s a bit of a mouthful, but-

Domenique Sillett Buxton:
It sure is.

Mike Gerholdt:
… I think we can narrow it down to your Astro’s mom.

Domenique Sillett Buxton:
That’s right. Yeah.

Mike Gerholdt:
So let’s get started there. Not a lot of enterprise platform companies have characters. Where did Salesforce characters start?

Domenique Sillett Buxton:
Oh, my gosh. Well, they actually started before I came on the scene, before Astro was a twinkle in my eye. It was SaaSy. SaaSy was the one that started it, and they were there for Mark and Parker on their journey with no software, disruptive for its time, still rippling through the industry these days. And so if it wasn’t for SaaSy, we wouldn’t have any of the other characters.

Mike Gerholdt:
Yeah. I remember coming to my first Dreamforce 2009 and seeing SaaSy dancing on stage. It felt very surreal.

Domenique Sillett Buxton:
And you’d never seen a mascot like SaaSy before, I would think.

Mike Gerholdt:
No, I mean outside of a baseball game.

Domenique Sillett Buxton:
But the shape of it, it was something from our logo that grew arms and legs, and started to dance around. That was unexpected. And it was a little something to just turn enterprise software on its head and just be different. Or really, maybe just show that we have a fun side. And that fun side continues, and that paved the way for Astro to join and all the other friends.

Mike Gerholdt:
Now, Astro’s full name is?

Domenique Sillett Buxton:
Astronomical.

Mike Gerholdt:
Astronomical? I think that’s very cool. And Astro’s a they?

Domenique Sillett Buxton:
Yes.

Mike Gerholdt:
Right, so all of our characters have pronouns.

Domenique Sillett Buxton:
Yes.

Mike Gerholdt:
So it started with Astro.

Domenique Sillett Buxton:
Mm-hmm. Well, remember, it started with SaaSy, and their pronouns are they/them as well. And so with Astro in 2014, just the idea came about was because we were doing some really fun stuff for developers called Developer Week. It was in April of 2014. And we’d done it before and we’re like, “Let’s do this again, but this time we’re going to space.” And so we had a theme, and we all love outer space. And so we were looking at the moon landing, especially because Salesforce one was the topic du jour, right? And so it was this idea around having developers explore galaxies with us using Salesforce 1. And it was just a fun opportunity to just think about it in a whole new way. And that was the origin. And we’ve created a more fun origin story for Astro since then, but one thing led to another, very organic in terms of how Astro went from a t-shirt into the hearts of the Trailblazer community.

Mike Gerholdt:
So I have Astro in a race car, which I think is very cool.

Domenique Sillett Buxton:
That’s right. That was the second version that we did.

Mike Gerholdt:
Oh, man. Yeah, that was a screensaver when I first started at Salesforce. I thought it was so cool.

Domenique Sillett Buxton:
Yes. Lightning was what we were sharing and celebrating, and we just thought, “Let’s have Astro again. Let’s have Astra do something different.” Astro was in the car. And what was really fun internally that we did was we created just little matchbox car packages just with Astro on there and just saying, “Get ready. Let’s go fast,” with lightning. And that was super fun to build. That was exciting.

Mike Gerholdt:
Yeah. What are you thinking when you’re creating Astro and putting them in different outfits at this time?

Domenique Sillett Buxton:
I think about what does the community want? I think it’s really important that something feels connected to what we’re doing. We make up fun things like Astro can fly, Astro can be anything that they dream to be, but we want them to be relevant to the conversation too. And so we try to put them in ways where they can be helpful, and that they might bring a pop of delight to your day. So maybe it’s could be really something unexpected, or maybe it’s something reflective of what’s happening in the community. Think about Tahoe Dreamin’. If you saw one of our friends, I would say Jillian or Leah, Sarah, Adam wearing those rainbow jumpsuits. We wanted the characters to have fun like that too. And so that was really fun to just think about things in that way. You do something that the characters want to be a part of that too, and they want to reflect just the real story of Salesforce.

Mike Gerholdt:
So was it 2015 we added Trailhead? And Astro got a new outfit.

Domenique Sillett Buxton:
They sure did. So 2015 was a really exciting year because that was the year where we zipped up the Trailblazer hoodie for the first time.

Mike Gerholdt:
Ooh.

Domenique Sillett Buxton:
Yes. That was at the MVP Summit. And it was just the opportunity to just really create a groundswell and just say, “We want to go in this direction. We want to learn in a new way. We need your help.” And I think about the beginnings of Trailhead, because I recall Josh Burke going around the country, doing free workshops for a very small amount of folks that could come fill a room. That’s how big your audience, is how many people you can bring into a room. You travel, you set up, you organize, and you basically deliver content to a set amount of people. And then the thing about that is that you are only meeting so many people, and then by the end of the day-

Mike Gerholdt:
Yeah, like a roomful.

Domenique Sillett Buxton:
Right. And then by at the end of the day, are they really picking up what you’re putting down? It’s really hard to know. And so Josh was really thinking about how can we quiz folks? How do we know that they’re picking this up, that they’re able to benefit from it? And so that’s where Trailhead came in. There was a combination of things. The need to learn on demand. The need to learn and train many people. And then there was just the movement of just when you are working with passion and intention, you have that what we call trail heart, that Trailblazer feeling, that was there. And so how do you bring an astronaut? Or how do you bring an astronaut into the forest?
And so it was this idea of, “Well, let’s think about this in a different way.” And Astro can be anything that they dreamed to be, and so that’s how Astro became a raccoon. And it was just that idea about going on a wild adventure. And it’s just thinking about how you can be in an office, but then when you’re doing something for yourself, thinking about personal growth through Trailhead and through goal setting and things, you do your best thinking outside sometimes. And I felt like that was why we needed it to feel like you were outside, to break down the barriers of boring and training and make them feel like you were meant to do it. Right.

Mike Gerholdt:
Right. It’s crazy. It’s great. You mentioned friends, so when did we add Codey?

Domenique Sillett Buxton:
Well, it was actually that year.

Mike Gerholdt:
Was it?

Domenique Sillett Buxton:
Yeah. So in 2015, this was a big… Fall 2015 was a big deal because if you came to visit us in 2014, and I want to say that wasn’t the first year of the admin zone?

Mike Gerholdt:
Yeah.

Domenique Sillett Buxton:
Yeah. And then we-

Mike Gerholdt:
We had superheroes and podcast booth.

Domenique Sillett Buxton:
That’s right.

Mike Gerholdt:
I know. Yeah.

Domenique Sillett Buxton:
I remember you had fun games and stuff there too. I remember one time-

Mike Gerholdt:
Yeah, we had a Super-D-duper party.

Domenique Sillett Buxton:
Yeah, that’s right. And the space was never big enough.

Mike Gerholdt:
No, the space has never been big enough for admins.

Domenique Sillett Buxton:
Never. And so that was really trippy. And so when we came to 2015, and I want to say it wasn’t Codey’s debut, but it was close because we were starting to just gain momentum with Trailhead. And we had a guy running around in a bear suit.

Mike Gerholdt:
Like a literal… I mean, it looked like a bear.

Domenique Sillett Buxton:
It sure did.

Mike Gerholdt:
And they had a T-shirt on. I know I had to hug him.

Domenique Sillett Buxton:
Yeah. I don’t know if it smelled like a bear.

Mike Gerholdt:
No, it smelled like a bear. Yeah. I mean, it’s hot in [inaudible 00:10:15]. It smelled like a bear. Yeah, we’re very authentic.

Domenique Sillett Buxton:
Oh, yeah. We were going for authenticity for sure. So 2015 was a big year because we had the bear running around. And we had a very, very, I would say now famous stuffed goat at this show.

Mike Gerholdt:
Yep, that’s right. I remember that.

Domenique Sillett Buxton:
Yes. And right then and there, we knew that Astro needed friends. And so that was where it became that we had Codey for developers, Cloudy for admins, and of course Astro. Yeah.

Mike Gerholdt:
Cool. Yeah, I remember the bear suit. It was literal. I also remember Adam Seligman going around dressed like a-

Domenique Sillett Buxton:
Ranger.

Mike Gerholdt:
… a ranger. Yeah.

Domenique Sillett Buxton:
And I’m going to tell you something that just the thought of that is… I remember it.

Mike Gerholdt:
Yeah. A lot of people remember it.

Domenique Sillett Buxton:
Yeah, I remember it. I remember it. And well, I remember going to get that suit. I actually went to Costumes on Haight and got the whole thing together, and it was just like, yeah, new job description every day.

Mike Gerholdt:
So now we have Astro, we have Codey, to some extent, we have Cloudy, which got named, she, and Codey is a he, correct?

Domenique Sillett Buxton:
Yep. Mm-hmm.

Mike Gerholdt:
So we have these characters running around and suddenly you have to incorporate them. What are you thinking about? I have to do all this creative stuff, and now I got to now put these characters into it. What is your intentionality? What are you thinking there?

Domenique Sillett Buxton:
Well, just imagine flying a plane at 36,000 feet and you’ve got to draw the map of where you’re going while you’re flying it, or you’ve got to build a plane while you’re flying it. That’s another metaphor, right?

Mike Gerholdt:
Yeah, we use that one a lot.

Domenique Sillett Buxton:
Yeah, so that was essentially what we were doing because we were finding that people were asking questions and people were wondering, “What’s their name?”

Mike Gerholdt:
“What’s it mean?”

Domenique Sillett Buxton:
“What does it mean?” Yeah. And that was a thing for me from 2015 to 2018, I was working very quietly in the background, just trying to make this all work and getting everybody files to work with, because it was a wave after wave of just importance of how the transformations that were happening with Trailhead for Trailblazers, they were blowing us all away. And we want to keep up the momentum and the excitement of this, because this is exciting. And so that was where we were writing the story. Einstein came along in 2016. It was just this thing that just started to really just say, these are not characters that are just going to be on a T-shirt and nothing else. They need a story, they need a purpose. And that is what I’ve been investing in this whole time.
And I was thinking about this, I think about how there is no one at this company that can tell the story like I can, or Amanda Chung on my team can, or Sarah Franklin. We’re so connected to it. Colin Fleming, same thing. This is something that we’re working with every day. And it’s a feeling that if we can’t tell the story, no one’s going to know the story and it’s not going to mean anything. And part of it for me with the storytelling is to turn the mic on you and say, “What does it mean to you? What is your connection to the characters? What is your connection to Cloudy?” Because I think it’s important to ask yourself that because it helps make a connection. And the characters are like a big brand hug. Our brand is a hug in a lot of ways with these characters.

Mike Gerholdt:
It’s a really good way to summarize it.

Domenique Sillett Buxton:
Yeah. And so it’s about leaving the door open for you, saving a seat for you. Those are the things that Astro does. But as a whole, all the characters want to help and be there for you to light the way. The characters are like beacons where they’re shining lights on ways to move forward. Cloudy is showing you the pathway to being a successful admin or just bringing a little delight to your day. And that’s important because the thing that has happened just by us having such a strong connection with our community is that these characters help to break the ice a little bit, and just have conversations and just to say, “You can learn this,” or, “What do you want to learn today? I’m listening.” And I think that that’s really important.

Mike Gerholdt:
So this is interesting. You’ve got characters and the only method of storytelling is through corporate marketing, as opposed to… You think of these large studios that have characters, some well developed from the ’20s and ’30s. Well they have Saturday morning cartoons and movies. You mentioned the community. What are some things that stand out to you that you’re like, “Wow, I’m so glad the community gave us this feedback on this character.”?

Domenique Sillett Buxton:
I think that community feedback’s really important because these characters are for the community. We started or rolled them out or welcomed them into the family through the community. And I think that when you get to a level where you introduce a character and nobody knows why, that could be really scary. And so it’s really important to get community feedback and to listen to it, to see where you have to make changes, which we had to do recently, actually. When we rolled out Brandy, there was feedback. And it was really interesting feedback because we were working with a character that is a fox. And foxes have a lot of preconceived notions that they’re crafty, overly clever. And then there’s other kind of things like around foxy, just being foxy. Say, “Oh, that Brandy, she’s a fox.”

Mike Gerholdt:
It’s very ’70s.

Domenique Sillett Buxton:
You want to get away from that, right? And it’s like, I want to smash all that and just say a character can be cute, but we have to be really mindful about ways to just not play into a stereotype of any kind. We want to avoid that. And so we listened to the feedback, we made the character more fox-like versus foxy, and that was really appreciative. They say feedback is a gift, and it was because I think that it’s important to know when it’s not working. I want to know, don’t you?

Mike Gerholdt:
Right. Yeah, absolutely. So we have persona-based characters, right? Cloudy, Astro. We talked a little bit about Ruth.

Domenique Sillett Buxton:
Yeah, connecting a character to a persona is really empowering because it really is about celebrating the purpose of the admin, the purpose of the developer, the purpose of the architect, why we do what we do. And just shining a light on these fantastic makers, these dreamers, doers. And just being able to have them have a seat at the table is really important to be in the room where it happens. I think that that is fulfilling to me as an artist. But I think for the audience, it’s really important that we deliver on it. And so the characters have along the way, their journey has been towards purpose. And their purpose is to help you unlock yours. It’s like a secret. You find-

Mike Gerholdt:
I got goosebumps.

Domenique Sillett Buxton:
You’re in a video game and you find an Easter egg, or you find a secret and you just go, “Oh, this is what it’s about.” That was exciting.

Mike Gerholdt:
Okay, so perfect segue. You should do podcasts. You should do a podcast on creative stuff. You mentioned Easter eggs. I know we don’t point Easter eggs out, but-

Domenique Sillett Buxton:
Oh, no. Yeah.

Mike Gerholdt:
… but you stick Easter eggs in stuff. What are some of the things that you do that maybe people have missed?

Domenique Sillett Buxton:
I think the rainbow jumpsuits is kind of an Easter egg in itself, right? Because that came from somewhere. I’ll say this. We do this thing with SaaSy, because we love SaaSy and we want to put SaaSy in things. So we call it hidden SaaSys. It’s like hidden Mickey’s at Disneyland. And so there are these just little things that we’ll do for the race car Astro that we did, the lightning Astro, the second version that we did of that, we made sure that the rims on the tires had the the nose symbol. We put SaaSy as a sticker on laptops, on Astro’s moped. There’s all these little places that our friend shows up. And I think that we even did something like with Trailbed for April Fools one year, and I want to say that Astro had a little stuffed SaaSy with them in bed. It’s just those little hints, those little things. And it’s an Easter egg, but it’s also just a nod to where we’ve come from.

Mike Gerholdt:
That’s so neat. Okay, last question. When you are at an event, what is the one thing that always chokes you up when you see about the characters?

Domenique Sillett Buxton:
Oh, my gosh. I’m going to choke up right now just thinking about it. I think that a recurring thing that happens sometimes when I see my characters, I say, “My babies.” Last year at Dreamforce when we were outside, the Foo Fighters came.

Mike Gerholdt:
Oh, that’s right. Yes.

Domenique Sillett Buxton:
And they asked the… I’m going to cry just from thinking about it. Dave Grohl’s like, “Hey, get these guys on stage. Let’s go. Let’s rock.” And so they went up there and they all went up there and just rocked out. And that was pretty significant for me as a human, being a part of the ohana and just being the mama of the Mascots and seeing that and just seeing how that thing that… It just broke my brain. It was amazing. And it’s my pinned post on Twitter because I love it so much. And it was such a cool thing and thinking about just Taylor Hawkins and just getting to see that, and just getting to be there in the moment, that was a moment that was unscripted and unforgettable.

Mike Gerholdt:
Wow. Yeah. I remember watching that thinking, “Okay, we have characters on stage with Foo Fighters. Welcome to Thursday, Wednesday, just another day.”

Domenique Sillett Buxton:
And the Foo Fighters on their Twitter said, “Yeah, we have backup dancers now.”

Mike Gerholdt:
Yeah, of course we do. Yeah. No, it’s great. I also will point out, I just love when I’m at an event and they’re out kind of wandering around and you happen to catch that moment when somebody first sees for the first time. And they run up just like, “I need to hug you or get a picture. Oh, my gosh.” Because they have this relationship.

Domenique Sillett Buxton:
Exactly.

Mike Gerholdt:
They’ve seen them everywhere. I can’t wait to see that happen when we get a Cloudy costume because that’s the one thing I haven’t seen. So I’ve seen Astro, I’ve seen Codey. We have Ruth. I’ve seen SaaSy very much. So we need to get a Cloudy on that.

Domenique Sillett Buxton:
I don’t know if it’s a poll or what that you need to run. A campaign.

Mike Gerholdt:
I think it’s some Twitter noise.

Domenique Sillett Buxton:
Some Twitter noise, a campaign.

Mike Gerholdt:
Like you said, the community gave you a lot of feedback on the costumes and the characters and stuff.

Domenique Sillett Buxton:
Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.

Mike Gerholdt:
We need to hear from the community about why there isn’t a Cloudy up dancing on stage with Astro and Codey.

Domenique Sillett Buxton:
I think you could actually create a campaign around that for your admins to get involved.

Mike Gerholdt:
They might do it themselves. Just listening to this podcast, they’re pretty creative people.

Domenique Sillett Buxton:
I’m into that. Yeah. So one-

Mike Gerholdt:
And how much fun wouldn’t that be?

Domenique Sillett Buxton:
It would be amazing, and full circle, just thinking about how Cloudy was created is really special. In 2015 at Dreamforce, Pat Patterson said, “Let’s take goat selfies.” And I was like, “I’d never heard of a thing called goat selfies.” This is before goat yoga and all these other kind of goaty things, the G-O-A-T. And I was like, “Let’s make goat selfies.” And it’s like, okay. And he had made the suggestion, the community listened, the community broke Twitter that year with goat selfies.

Mike Gerholdt:
Oh, I had to get my goat selfie. It was right at the top of the escalator, second floor. Yeah. You had to…

Domenique Sillett Buxton:
Yeah. That character was truly created by the community. It was a call. The community answered. The community brought it. It’s so important to know why Cloudy is associated with admins. The admin community supports each other in really incredible ways. And the community is there for each other, encouraging. I’ve never seen anyone do campaigns to get people to go to Dreamforce. I’ve never seen just the participation and the connections that are there. They’re real. And I wanted that with Cloudy sure-footed, supportive. And I always thought that Cloudy was the quiet, cool. Cloudy’s the secret sauce. Cloudy really is the cloud, knows all things about the cloud. And so those are the things that I love to share with your audience because I just think she makes the whole thing work. What other big company has a goat?

Mike Gerholdt:
I know. I know. Well, so let’s talk about that because what other company we saw at Dreamforce this year has a rabbit in a magic costume? Right?

Domenique Sillett Buxton:
Yes.

Mike Gerholdt:
Tell us about how that came about.

Domenique Sillett Buxton:
Well, Genie is about just making realtime customer magic, and so just these realtime interactions. And I think that when you hear, “Let’s have a character for Genie,” if you deliver a genie that looks like a genie, I don’t know if that’s necessarily really the assignment that we need to do. And so we looked at it and was like, “How can we do this in a different way?” We thought about magic. And when you think about rabbits and magic, you think, “Oh, pulling magic out of a hat, assisting a magician.” And then it was like, “No, let’s not do that either. Let’s actually have the rabbit be the magic.” And so this rabbit can fly. This rabbit can change sizes based on just what they’re working on, who they’re dealing with. And they’re kind of cool and they’re fun. And so it’s a rabbit, and it’s like, why not a rabbit?

Mike Gerholdt:
So you wake up Thursday, let’s just say, you have your coffee and get some stuff done, and then that’s your day. You’re thinking about how do I make a character that represents magic and can costume and it can change sizes? Okay. Yeah, that sounds like a ball of fun.

Domenique Sillett Buxton:
It came together with a really cool team very quickly. And so these characters are not done by me in a small little corner of my office by myself. It takes a village to make these characters. And so this is something that where it’s a lot of brainstorming, sketching, working with some really talented folks to just say, “Could it do this? Could it do this?”

Mike Gerholdt:
Why couldn’t it?

Domenique Sillett Buxton:
Yeah. “Could it be purple?” All these different kinds of things. And it was really a way to just do a stress test to say, “What works? What do you think about this?” We polled some members of our community to just be a part of it and say, “Should we go in this direction, this direction or this direction?” And who looks like is going to be the most fun to see all the time? And of the concepts that we tested, our rabbit won by landslide. Which is great to hear that feedback and to just make sure that we’re going in the right direction. And I’m so appreciative of that.

Mike Gerholdt:
Yeah. Well, it’s very cool and it’s going to change. We’ll see all the things that Genie can do.

Domenique Sillett Buxton:
I’m looking forward to seeing how they become part of our story, because they’re telling a really interesting story of just how all of our tech is just combining in magical new ways, and that’s exciting. We bought in some really cool family members from Tableau, Mule, Slack, and the other acquisitions that we have. Everybody’s bringing something to the table, and it’s neat to just see what the conversations are and the collaborations are. And I’m excited by that. And I feel like Genie is a step in that direction.

Mike Gerholdt:
Have you ever pitched doing a Saturday morning cartoon?

Domenique Sillett Buxton:
I have.

Mike Gerholdt:
I mean, seriously.

Domenique Sillett Buxton:
Well, how about this?

Mike Gerholdt:
I feel like you have 30 episodes written in your head at this point.

Domenique Sillett Buxton:
Oh, my gosh. I would love to talk about this every day. It’s kind of like… What is it? Like Green Eggs and Ham. I will tell this story in a box with a box on a boat with a goat. I will tell this story anywhere and anyone wants to listen. And I’ve got stories. And I love seeing how these stories write themselves in a lot of ways, because we’re all just in the ecosystem doing our thing. And so that’s all really exciting. I think it’s just kind of figuring out how to get those things done. We’ve made some pretty crazy things here at Salesforce, like animatronics. And we’ve got our offices and lobbies look like a forest. I mean, we’ve delivered in really unique ways.

Mike Gerholdt:
And our characters are there too. Yeah.

Domenique Sillett Buxton:
And they’re a part of it. You walk through that door, there’s Astro.

Mike Gerholdt:
Yeah. Yeah. In a trailblazer hoodie.

Domenique Sillett Buxton:
That’s right.

Mike Gerholdt:
Dom, this was fun.

Domenique Sillett Buxton:
I had fun. Thanks for asking me to do this.

Mike Gerholdt:
It’s fun. Yeah, I know. Well, it’s good. We’ve added some characters since we last talked about this.

Domenique Sillett Buxton:
Yeah, I was thinking about it. It’s been 2018 was the last time we did this?

Mike Gerholdt:
2018 was the last time we talked characters. Yeah.

Domenique Sillett Buxton:
A lot’s happened since then.

Mike Gerholdt:
Seriously, right? Holy cow, we’ve added so many more. Well, and we will just do this regularly, because I’m sure we’re going to add… And then when you get your Saturday morning cartoon series.

Domenique Sillett Buxton:
It would be pretty amazing to do that. I think that one of the things that’s been really fun with the characters is to share them with my family. And yeah, just imagine doing something like that and being able to turn on the TV and there it is. That’s the dream. Yeah.

Mike Gerholdt:
Yeah. That feels like kids, “Oh, I grew up watching the Salesforce cartoons.”
“Okay, great. I grew up with Transformers.”
Anyway, thanks for coming by.

Domenique Sillett Buxton:
Thanks for having me.

Mike Gerholdt:
We will do this again and we’ll look for more purple magic to be around.
If you want to learn more about all things admin, go to admin.salesforce.com to find more resources, including… Well, I didn’t mention any links in this episode, so you’re good. But you can get the full transcript. And of course, we want to see a Cloudy costume at a future event, but I need you to help tweet this out. So write this down. I want you to tweet out, “I want to see a Cloudy mascot.” And I need you to at mention Christophe Coenraets, who I’m going to give you his Twitter handle, and it is @ccoenraets. Now, I’ll include a link in the show notes, so you can just click to tweet that as many times as you’d like. Not that you would do that like 100 or 200 times, just saying, over a lunch.

Domenique Sillett Buxton:
What’s the hashtag?

Mike Gerholdt:
Awesome admin. We always use #AwesomeAdmin. Yes, #AwesomeAdmin. But I want to see a Cloudy mascot. Christophe Coenraets can help make us that happen. And of course you can stay up to date with us on all things social. We are @salesforceadmns, no I, on Twitter. Gillian is on Twitter @gilliankbruce. And of course, I am @mikegerholdt. So with that, stay safe, stay awesome, and stay tuned for the next episode. We’ll see you in the cloud.

Josh Burke:
Well, I hope everybody enjoyed that. Once again, if you want to learn more about Mike’s show, head on over to admin.salesforce.com. And of course, if you want to learn more about this show, head on over to developer.salesforce.com/podcast, where you can hear old episodes, see the show notes, and have links to your favorite podcast service. Thanks again, everybody. Thank you for listening. Happy holidays and possibly a happy New Year, depending on when this comes out and we talk again. I’ll talk to you next week.

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