SF Politics Marc Benioff, Elon Musk Attend White House Dinner With Murderous Saudi Crown Prince The billionaires were all back in their billionaire bubble alongside Trump Tuesday night, and even Elon Musk has been welcomed back into the fold after his teenage-style tiff with Trump.
SF News Saturday Links: A Beleaguered Benioff Retracts, Apologizes for National Guard Remarks A Michigan woman used ChatGBT to pick her winning Powerball numbers; a prolific list of No King’s rallies across the Bay Area is provided within; and Marc Benioff has officially retracted his National Guard comments.
SF News Day Around the Bay: OpenAI to Block Users From Using Martin Luther King Jr.’s Likeness Prince Andrew no longer has his royal titles due to the Epstein scandal; a teenager was arrested for making a false bomb threat to a Marin County high school; and OpenAI is temporarily blocking users from utilizing Martin Luther King Jr.’s likeness.
Business & Tech Regarding Benioff's Trumpy Turn: Salesforce Was Pitching a 'Talent Acquisition' Contract to ICE We need only follow the money to figure out what has turned the once-liberal-leaning Marc Benioff into a full-throated Trump supporter. And now we see that Salesforce was hoping to land a new contract helping ICE to expand its reach.
SF Politics Longtime SF Mayor Whisperer Ron Conway Puts Fellow Billionaire Marc Benioff on Blast The fallout continues from Marc Benioff's New York Times interview last week, in which the full-time Hawaii resident seemingly approved of Donald Trump's authoritarian use of the National Guard in liberal cities he doesn't like.
Business & Tech Benioff Walks Back National Guard Comment as Salesforce Pledges $15B Investment In San Francisco The crisis PR team over at Salesforce has been working overtime since CEO Marc Benioff went full Trumpy in a New York Times interview Friday, going so far as to say he'd welcome the National Guard being illegally deployed in San Francisco.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Salesforce's Marc Benioff Wants to Bring National Guard to SF, ‘Re-Fund’ SFPD The South Lake Tahoe church where Mayor Tamara Wallace embezzled funds said they caught her in the act; Two Gilroy elementary schools have encountered copper wire theft in the past month; and Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff mistakenly thought SFPD was defunded at some point.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SUV Hits Parked DOT Vehicles in Deadly San Mateo Bridge Crash Late disco legend Sylvester's former Twin Peaks condo is on the market; the Ashby BART station flea market may close at the end of June; and a driver was killed when their speeding SUV crashed into parked San Mateo DOT vehicles.
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.”
SF News Dreamforce Kicks Off Tuesday With Celebrity Speakers, Largest Crowd Since 2019 Salesforce's annual Dreamforce conference, which these days is all about AI, is set to bring in about 45,000 attendees when it kicks off Tuesday in SoMa, which is the biggest crowd it's had since the pandemic.
Business & Tech Salesforce Work-From-Home Party Is Over, Employees Required to Be in Office Three to Five Days a Week SF’s largest private employer Salesforce is bringing the hammer down on its pajama-clad workers who’ve gotten used to remote work, as the company will start requiring employees to work three to five days a week in the office, and they’ll be monitoring security badge scans.
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.
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.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Morale Reportedly Meh at Meta Salesforce is fully abandoning the 30-story Salesforce East; Rep. Ro Khanna and others are openly calling for Sen. Dianne Feinstein to resign; and morale is reportedly sinking lower at Meta in Menlo Park.
SF News Yet More High-Rise Windows Crack as Salesforce East Has Second Broken Window Incident In a Week Another storm has brought another set of broken windows to 350 Mission Street, the high-rise otherwise known as Salesforce East, in a story that’s becoming frighteningly common this month.
Business & Tech Salesforce Is Laying Off 10% of Its Workforce, Nearly 8,000 Employees San Francisco‘s largest private employer will be a less-large private employer, as Salesforce dropped a bomb Wednesday morning announcing that they’re laying off nearly 8,000 employees.
Business & Tech Report: Salesforce Set To Lay Off ‘As Many As 2,500’ Employees The latest San Francisco layoff-palooza shoe to drop is a big one, as towering software company Salesforce is reportedly set to lay off thousands, in job cuts that actually already started Monday.
Business & Tech Dreamforce Coming Back With ’Tens of Thousands’ Attending In September, Because What Could Go Wrong Apparently Salesforce is confident enough that COVID-19 will be a non-factor three months from now that they’re bringing back a large-scale Dreamforce, but they’re being a little vague on whether they’ll allow 170,000 people again.
Business & Tech Dreamforce Returns as Much Smaller, Mostly Outdoor Conference in SoMa This Week 170,000 people usually come to Dreamforce, which along with the now departed Oracle OpenWorld would typically clog up traffic all over downtown for several days as conventioneers descended on the city. This year will be much different.
SF News Salesforce to Help Employees Flee Texas Amid Abortion Ban Texas, a state that's becoming increasingly purple, recently enacted one of the most aggressive anti-abortion laws seen in the United States since Roe v. Wade. But Salesforce employees who work in the Lone Star State will have their employer's help in relocating, should they wish.
SF News Dreamforce Is Happening In SF In September, But Will Be Smaller Than Usual Salesforce has announced that Dreamforce is back on as an in-person event this year, though it clearly will not have the usual 170,000 attendees coming to San Francisco.
Business & Tech SF Tech Companies Losing Hundreds of Millions on Office Space They Can’t Rent Dropbox alone dropped more than $400 million on empty downtown office space, as tech companies all over the Bay Area are bleeding billions to rent office spaces that are just cold sitting totally empty.
Business & Tech In Its Biggest Acquisition to Date, Salesforce Buys Slack for $27.7 Billion Confirming the story that was first reported last week about the two companies being in "advanced" talks about an acquisition, Salesforce and Slack announced Tuesday that they are joining forces.
Business & Tech Salesforce May Be Buying Slack, and Slack's Stock Price Is Going Nuts San Francisco-based Salesforce is reportedly in advanced negotiations to acquire workplace messaging app Slack, in the latest of a flurry of year-end mergers and acquisitions.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Salesforce Cancels Dreamforce The SFPD was reportedly enforcing a curfew at a Civic Center tent encampment, the name of the guy who barricaded himself in Glide last week has been released, and the city is reimbursing workers who have money tied up in medical savings accounts.
