Gov. Gavin Newsom has a long relationship with Marc Benioff, the chief executive of Salesforce, that dates back to a different era in San Francisco.

In an interview on Thursday, Benioff, who now lives primarily in Hawaii and has been registered to vote there since 2021, said he was responding to a shortage of officers in the San Francisco Police Department that has forced him to hire additional officers from outside San Francisco to provide security at the last three Dreamforces.

Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce, apologized in a post on X for suggesting President Donald Trump should call the National Guard into San Francisco.

Emily Shugerman of The San Francisco Standard spoke with HPR’s Maddie Bender about reports that Salesforce CEO and billionaire Marc Benioff has shifted his focus and money from California to Hawaiʻi.

After strong backlash to his embrace of President Donald Trump and a week of blistering criticism, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff has changed course.

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff now fully supports President Donald Trump and urged him to deploy National Guard troops to San Francisco due to crime concerns.

Marc Benioff, the chief executive officer and co-founder of Salesforce Inc., has spent north of $1 billion and decades trying to convince the public that he is the good kind of tech titan and that his enterprise software firm is the good kind of tech company.

Ahead of the event, Salesforce co-founder and CEO Marc Benioff tossed his support behind President Trump in a New York Times interview. He said the president is doing a great job and that he would be open to the National Guard being sent to San Francisco to address ongoing crime.

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff apologized after backlash over his support for deploying the National Guard to San Francisco, clarifying the city doesn’t need federal troops.

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said that "face-to-face communication" was still needed in sales. He recently hired between 3,000 and 5,000 salespeople.

David Spade wants to set the record straight after performing for pro-Trump billionaire Marc Benioff’s tech conference. Spade responded Sunday on his Fly on The Wall podcast to criticism over his set at an annual Salesforce conference hosted by Benioff,