Business & Tech Dreamforce Commits to Three More Years In SF (But Benioff Gives Himself a Loophole to Leave) Salesforce announced they will keep their Dreamforce conference here through 2027 in a windfall for the city’s tourism industry, but Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff gave himself an out, saying Dreamforce will only stay as long as SF “remains safe and secure and trusted.”
Business & Tech Exclusive: Warren Buffett’s $53 Million Glide ‘Power of One’ Lunch Auction Taken On By Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff The annual Glide auction for lunch with Warren Buffett will now be an auction for lunch with Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, as Benioff is taking over the annual charity auction that has fed San Francisco’s neediest residents to the tune of $53 million.
Business & Tech Dreamforce Is Indeed Returning to SF in 2024, Despite Marc Benioff’s Threat to Move Conference Elsewhere Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff will not move his company's Dreamforce mega-conference to Las Vegas or Austin or wherever, despite his own threats that he might, as he announced today that Dreamforce 2024 will remain right here in SF.
SF Politics Benioff Praises City Cleanup For Dreamforce, Asks Why It Can't Be Like This Every Day Apparently Dreamforce went well this week, and city efforts to clean up the area around the Moscone Center so that conventioneers didn't have to step over bodies or needles were a success.
Business & Tech Marc Benioff Threatens to Move Dreamforce Conference Out of SF Over Homelessness, Drug Use The annual Dreamforce convention is still set to begin less than two weeks from now, but Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff is threatening to move the whole shebang elsewhere if he thinks drug use and homelessness disrupt this year’s event.
Business & Tech Marc Benioff Says Capitalism ‘Is Dead,’ Calls Facebook ‘The New Cigarettes’ The Salesforce CEO unloaded on his tech brethren at a TechCrunch Disrupt event last week, and said Facebook is “the new cigarettes.”
Business & Tech Marc and Lynne Benioff Give Major Donation To Gut Biome Research Salesforce founder and CEO Marc Benioff and his wife Lynne just announced a $35 million donation to research into the under-studied field of the human microbiome — specifically into research that could lead to new therapies for asthma, inflammatory bowel disease, and other ailments.
SF News Marc and Lynne Benioff Fund $30M Study On Homelessness Marc and Lynne Benioff are giving $30 million to fund a five-year study on homelessness — its root causes and potential solutions.
SF News Salesforce Tower Officially Tops Off; Top Floor To Be Event Space Available For Community Use This morning Salesforce Tower had its ceremonial topping off, which included a press conference with the mayor, several supervisors, the developer, and CEO Marc Benioff, and the hoisting of the "final" steel beam
SF News $30 Million Campaign To Reduce Family Homelessness Enjoys Large Donation From Marc Benioff, Private Sector A program announced today whose aim is to curb the number of families experiencing homelessness will benefit from a private-public partnership that includes donations from number of tech companies and luminaries, from Zendesk
SF News Nobody Wants To Buy Twitter As Salesforce Is Latest, Last Suitor To Walk Away Wanna buy a lightly-used (maybe that's the problem) microblogging platform? Salesforce doesn't, as CEO Marc Benioff informs the Financial Times that his cloud computing company has walked away from a potential bid on
SF News Chronicle Comes Out In Favor Of Lucas Museum, With Conditions While the would-be art Jedi tries to make his return to San Francisco, the possibility of a George Lucas Museum Of Narrative Art in a new location — on Treasure Island — has already been
SF News Marc Benioff: 'Unicorn Mania' Is 'Dangerous For Our Silicon Valley Economy' Salesforce CEO and billionaire philanthropist Marc Benioff isn't showing a lot of charity to privately funded startups valued at $1 billion or more before being taken public, a group colloquially named unicorns. “The
SF News Video: Uber's Travis Kalanick Asks 'Am I Going To Be Part Of The Future Or Am I Going To Resist It?' Uber's C.E.-bro Travis Kalanick has been on what reads to many as an apology tour, appearing on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, posing for a piece of corporate portraiture in
SF News Microsoft Revealed As Second Company Bidding For Salesforce A week ago it was reported that Salesforce.com Inc., the largest employer in San Francisco's tech sector, was at work with financial advisers after receiving takeover offers. At that time, sources said
SF News Ron Conway Defends Warriors Arena, Mission Bay Alliance Consultant Calls Him 'Bag Of Crap' Today we hear more from the Mission Bay Alliance, a group that just appeared made up of anonymous deep-pocketed UCSF donors to crusade against the Warriors Arena project in Mission Bay. Meanwhile, as
SF News Salesforce For Sale? SF's Largest Tech Employer Works With Bankers To Field Takeover Offers Salesforce.com Inc., San Francisco's largest tech employer and host of that really big conference called Dreamforce, has begun to work with financial advisers after receiving takeover offers, Bloomberg reports. Sources say that
SF News Why Are Ron Conway And Marc Benioff 'Escorting' SF's Anti-Gay Archbishop? It appears that Jeb Bush isn't the only conservative figure SF tech gazillionaires Ron Conway and Marc Benioff pal around with: according to former San Francisco mayor Willie Brown, the two are also
SF News Ron Conway And Marc Benioff Met With Jeb Bush Yesterday, Who Had This Nonsense To Say It wasn't just us giving Jeb Bush a warm welcome to San Francisco when the former Florida Governor rode in to town yesterday with his anonymous donor Super Pac "Right to Rise" in
SF News Marc Benioff Has A Few Things To Say About Tech Companies Who Don't Give Back, And Zuckerberg's 'Philanthropy' Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, whose company just inked a deal that includes naming rights for what's going to be the tallest building west of the Mississippi, has no patience for his peers who
SF News The Transbay Tower Will Now Be The 'Salesforce Tower' Salesforce.com, San Francisco's largest employer and conference host, announced today that it plans on leasing half of what will soon be the tallest office building west of Chicago. The deal for 714,
SF News Mark Benioff Calls Out Tech Companies Who Refuse To Give Back To Community "We still have some pretty epic companies here who have had IPOs and aren't giving—and aren't part of this and won't join. And entrepreneurs who don't believe in this. This is not
SF News Loaded Tech Guy Does Nice Thing For S.F. Schools Salesforce.com founder Marc Benioff announced today that his company will donate $2.7 million to "the most important resource in San Francisco" — middle school kids. The donation will help bring the math
