It’s unclear exactly what’s prompted Benioff’s pivot toward Trump, but Salesforce does business with the federal government and tech moguls from OpenAI’s Sam Altman to Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg have spoken favorably of the president in what many analysts say is an attempt to preserve their own business interests in the face of a commander-in-chief who has sought to punish his enemies. Benioff’s latest comments signal to Keally McBride, a professor of politics at the University of San Francisco, that Benioff, who has largely relocated in recent years to Hawaii, “is probably not in touch with what life in San Francisco really is like these days. The mayor, a Levi Strauss heir, is walking a tightrope in trying to court business interest in the city, at a time when the city has had to cut millions of dollars from its annual budget and is increasingly looking to private philanthropy to fill in the gaps.
Author: Sydney Johnson
Published at: 2025-10-13 22:12:35
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