Salesforce CEO says National Guard should patrol San Francisco —stunning his own PR team

Marc Benioff has long been San Francisco’s liberal-leaning billionaire, the tech executive who funded homeless services, donated to the city’s public schools, and hosted Hillary Clinton fundraisers.

But in a new, wide-ranging phone interview with The New York Times from his private plane, Benioff revealed a political transformation that seemed to surprise even his own communications team, despite the fact that Salesforce has hundreds of contracts with the federal government.

https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/10/salesforce-ceo-says-national-guard-should-patrol-san-francisco-stunning-his-own-pr-team/