Daniel Lurie and his high-profile friends in the tech industry convinced Trump to call off deploying federal troops to 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.

Salesforce CEO Mark Benioff on Friday apologized for comments he made last week urging President Trump to deploy the National Guard to San Francisco to address public safety.

Salesforce Chief Executive Marc Benioff says President Trump is doing a great job and ought to deploy the National Guard to deal with crime in San Francisco.

Mark Benioff has called on President Trump to deploy the National Guard to San Francisco in a new interview in which the Silicon Valley power player revealed he “fully

Mr. Benioff, the Salesforce C.E.O. and owner of Time magazine, once supported Hillary Clinton and a business tax for homeless services. Now he’s fully behind Donald Trump.

Benioff stirred up controversy last week after giving an interview with The New York Times in which he declared his support for President Donald Trump’s threats to deploy National Guard troops in San Francisco and other cities led by Democratic politicians.

My earlier comment came from an abundance of caution around the event, and I sincerely apologize for the concern it caused,” Benioff wrote on X.