#marc benioff

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Trump calls off 'surge' in San Francisco

The liberal city was bracing for the arrival of federal agents.

President Trump reversed plans to deploy federal forces to San Francisco at the behest of Marc Benioff and Nvidia's Jensen Huang.

Trump, in a statement on Truth Social, said “friends of mine who live in the area called last night to ask me not to go forward with the surge in that the Mayor, Daniel Lurie, was making substantial progress. I spoke to Mayor Lurie last night and he asked, very nicely, that I give him a chance to see if he can turn it around.” Trump said in a Truth Social post on Thursday that he backed off after Lurie “asked, very nicely.” Trump said friends based in the area had conveyed to him that Lurie “was making substantial progress.”

Tech billionaires lobbying the president not to "send in the troops" with his unchecked authority, because we don't please him, isn't how the United States is supposed to work.

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Salesforce CEO says National Guard should patrol San Francisco -- stunning his own PR team | TechCrunch

Though Benioff's shift mirrors Silicon Valley's broader accommodation of Trump, the exchange offered a rare glimpse of just how far that rep

“The Salesforce founder declared he ‘fully supported’ President Trump and thought National Guard troops should patrol San Francisco streets. He gushed about sitting across from Trump at a Windsor Castle state dinner, telling the president ‘how grateful I am for everything he’s doing.’ He praised Elon Musk’s government efficiency efforts and said he hadn’t closely followed news about immigration raids or Trump’s attacks on the media.”

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Meet Marc Benioff

He’s a Proud Jew who has donated over a billion dollars to charity!

Oh and he also Founded  @salesforce, a $300B+ cloud computing powerhouse that pioneered Software and now employs over 70,000 people.

Born in 1964 to a proud Jewish family in San Francisco, California

Benioff showed entrepreneurial hustle from childhood.

 • At 15, he founded Liberty Software, creating and selling Atari games like King Arthur’s Heir and earning royalties that helped fund his future. 

• He sold his first program, “How to Juggle,” for $75 as a teen.

After graduating from the University of Southern California he joined Oracle in 1986, rising rapidly to become the company’s youngest vice president ever mentored by Larry Ellison and earning millionaire status by age 25.

Inspired by a sabbatical in India and vision from Steve Jobs, 

he left Oracle to co-found Salesforce in 1999 from a small San Francisco apartment, boldly declaring “The End of Software” by pioneering cloud-based CRM.

Salesforce exploded: • Grew from startup to Fortune 150 giant with massive revenues. • 

Revolutionized enterprise software, acquiring companies like Slack, Tableau, and MuleSoft. • Valuation soared past $300 billion in recent years, with Benioff’s stake contributing to his multi-billion-dollar fortune.

A deeply committed philanthropist embodying Jewish values of tikkun olam Benioff has donated hundreds of millions through Salesforce’s 1-1-1 model (1% equity, 1% product, 1% time to charity), supporting education, health, homelessness initiatives, and Jewish causes including Hatzalah

And Congregation Emanu-El and proud daily practice of wrapping tefillin.

He also owns  @TIMEmagazine purchased in 2018

From teenage game developer in the Bay Area to global tech leader and generous giver, Marc Benioff’s journey is a quintessential American Jewish success story rooted in innovation, bold vision, and family heritage.

Yossi Farro

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Nazi behavior

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A liberal CEO goes MAGA

Once a leading liberal voice in tech, billionaire Marc Benioff has shifted his support to President Trump, following the lead of many of his

Caleb Ecarma at Oligarch Watch:

Once a leading liberal voice in tech, billionaire Marc Benioff has shifted his support to President Trump, following the lead of many of his peers in Silicon Valley. In a recent interview, Benioff, the 61-year-old chief executive of software giant Salesforce and owner of Time magazine, said that he “fully supports” Trump and his plan to deploy the National Guard to San Francisco. “I think [Trump is] doing a great job,” he added. He has since walked back his support for a National Guard deployment following widespread backlash. But Salesforce, the largest private employer in San Francisco, has explored other ways to support — and profit from — Trump administration policies.

In August, Benioff’s company approached Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) about using its artificial intelligence systems to boost the agency’s massive recruiting drive, according to a New York Times report last week. To help achieve the president’s goal of deporting tens of millions of immigrants, the Trump administration has prioritized recruiting thousands of new ICE agents. In documents authored by Salesforce, the company offered to help ICE nearly triple “its workforce by hiring 10,000 new officers and agents expeditiously.” Salesforce, a company that specializes in cloud computing, marketing, analytics, and AI applications, also informed ICE that it could “implement an aggressive, high-yield marketing strategy” and “identify, engage and acquire the talent profile proven to drive ICE mission success, and in turn, administration priorities.”

Salesforce’s enthusiasm for Trump’s deportation regime is noteworthy, given that Benioff has spent the past decade using the company to launch headline-grabbing attacks against Republican policies. In 2015, Benioff said that Salesforce would no longer send its employees to Indiana after the state passed a bill that would have enabled businesses to discriminate against LGBTQ customers. Benioff’s threat resulted in Indiana revising the bill. The following year, Benioff said Salesforce would cut its spending in Georgia following a bill that would allow businesses to refuse service to LGBTQ patrons. Georgia’s governor then vetoed the bill. And in 2021, Benioff promised that Salesforce would pay for Texas employees to relocate following the passage of the state’s draconian anti-abortion law.

By carefully managing his public image over the years, Benioff has attempted to market himself as one of the few altruistic billionaires and his company as a force for good.

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Benioff’s rightward turn began in earnest with the COVID-19 pandemic, when he relocated from San Francisco to a beachside mansion in Hawaii. Since then, he has repeatedly called for San Francisco to beef up its police force and adopted a more pessimistic tone, predicting that the city would never go “back to the way it was.” More recently, Trump has threatened to send troops to San Francisco, which he claimed had been “destroyed” by Democrats. “We’ll clean that one up, too,” he said in August. Benioff threw his support behind the idea — an intimidation tactic the president has used against other Democratic majority cities — earlier this month, saying, “We don’t have enough cops, so if [the National Guard] can be cops, I’m all for it.”

Marc Benioff’s turn to the right in recent years is a sad betrayal.

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ok not to like be a Debbie downer but why is he still alive lol

[gettothedancing]

Commentary: Joe Biden has deep ties to the radical 'Great Reset' movement and its globalist leaders

It would overhaul the world's economy in favor of more collectivism and the centralization of power in the hands of international elites