Email: Ron Conway, a close friend of Marc Benioff for 25+ years, stepped down from the Salesforce Foundation board, citing Benioff's comments supporting Trump
Benioff also owns TIME magazine, which named Trump Person of the Year in 2024. — #Salesforce #Dreamforce $CRM — www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/u... Jennifer Elias / @jennelias : “It saddens me immense...
Marc Benioff says President Trump is “doing a great job” and believes National Guard troops should be deployed to San Francisco to help reduce crime in the city
Mr. Benioff, the Salesforce C.E.O. and owner of Time magazine, once supported Hillary Clinton and a business tax for homeless services.
Marc Benioff says Salesforce has cut its support staff from 9,000 to ~5,000 in the past year after deploying AI agents to handle a growing share of its work
but remains deeply skeptical of AGI, which he likens to hypnosis Maria Garcia / Implicator.ai : Salesforce's AI agents slice support workforce by ~45%—weeks after Benioff said humans were essential Cr...
American Exceptionalism Acquisition, a SPAC led by Chamath Palihapitiya and focused on energy, AI, DeFi, and defense, files for a US IPO, seeking to raise $250M
American Exceptionalism Acquisition Corp. A 25,000,000 Class A Ordinary Shares … Steve Goldstein / MarketWatch : Chamath Palihapitiya warns ‘no crying in the casino’ as he launches another SPAC after ...
Marc Benioff says “AI is doing 30% to 50% of the work at Salesforce”, like software engineering and customer service, and its AI product has hit ~93% accuracy
This ratio sounds hard to fathom but if true I expect shareholders will push to see increased business results or layoffs as they have 30%-50% more employees than they need. Brutus / @itsillegaltobeme...
Sources: OpenAI is in early talks to raise up to $40B at a $340B valuation; the startup was last valued at $157B in October, when it raised $6.6B
I'm old enough to remember when $6.6B was an unheard of amount of money for a startup to be raising. Bluesky: Ed Zitron / @edzitron.com : I LOVE Masayoshi Son. The entire generative AI market is pote...
AI's first wave of successful implementation will probably look more like the first wave of computing, which was led by enterprise installations that cut jobs
I don't want it to write a blog post for me; I want help rephrasing a passage. — I don't want it to produce code for me; I want assistance digging through the web for examples of what I need. … Bald...
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff tells a reporter, who is looking into his Hawaii land acquisition, that he knows where she is staying and her personal details
Oglala Lakota and of Irish descent| IndigeQueer. Shannon Thaler / New York Post : Salesforce's billionaire CEO Marc Benioff is quietly buying up vast tracts of real estate in Hawaii Bluesky: @scotian...
Salesforce plans to hire 3,300 people for sales, engineering, and its data cloud product, after cutting 10% of its workforce, or ~8,000 jobs, in January 2023
- New hires will be split among sales, engineering, data cloud — Many hires will be boomerang employees, CEO Benioff says
Salesforce reports Q1 revenue up 11% YoY to $8.25B, vs. $8.18B est., capital expenditures up 36% YoY to $243M, vs. $205M est., and raises Q2 guidance above est.
and it says its controversial ‘performance culture’ is to thank Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE : Salesforce delivers to expectations but contract delays and rising capital costs weigh on stock Kevin McL...