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Benioff Apologizes and Drops His Call for the National Guard in San Francisco
Salesforce…Salesforce Tower, 415, Mission Street, Rincon Hill, San Francisco, California, 94105, United States
Starts 10/17/2025CONFIRMED 87% CONFIDENCE342 days agoCNN^[1] (17 October 2025): Benioff "backtracked on Friday", quoting his post on X that day.
After Dreamforce closed, Marc Benioff posted that he no longer believed the National Guard was needed in San Francisco and apologized for the concern his remarks caused.
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Salesforce…Salesforce Tower, 415, Mission Street, Rincon Hill, San Francisco, California, 94105, United States
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The Standard (16 October 2025): Conway "submitted his resignation in a heated email sent to Benioff Thursday morning".^[1]

Start: Oct 16, 202590% CONFIDENCEfrom the source

Ron Conway Quits the Salesforce Foundation Board Over Benioff's Troop Remarks

Veteran investor Ron Conway resigned from the Salesforce Foundation's board after a decade, telling Marc Benioff by email that he "barely recognize[d]" him after his National Guard comments.

SV Angel founder Ron Conway resigned from the board of the Salesforce Foundation on 16 October 2025 in an email to Marc Benioff sent that morning^[1]
"It saddens me immensely to say that with your recent comments, and failure to understand their impact, I now barely recognize the person I have so long admired," he wrote^[1][3]
He called Benioff's remarks a call for "an unwanted invasion of San Francisco by federal troops" and wrote: "San Francisco does not need a federal invasion because you don't like paying for extra security for Dreamforce"^[1][2]
A Salesforce spokesperson confirmed the resignation: "We have deep gratitude for Ron Conway and his incredible contributions to the Salesforce Foundation Board for over a decade"^[1][3]
Conway had sat on the board of the foundation, which funds education and workforce programmes for young people, for ten years; it gave $36 million in 2023^[3]

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sfstandard.com/2025/10/16/ron-conway-resigns-salesforce-foundation-board-marc-benioff
sfstandard.com· Posted Sep 24, 2026· Starts Oct 16, 2025 ✓· 65% of score
The Standard (16 October 2025): Conway "submitted his resignation in a heated email sent to Benioff Thursday morning".
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Benioff: Forget what I said about bringing the National Guard to San Francisco
sfstandard.com· Published Oct 17, 2025· 17% of score
Next day's reversal; says Conway stepped down "one day" before, and quotes his line about Dreamforce security.^[1]
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VC legend Ron Conway quits Salesforce Foundation after Benioff's National Guard comments
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Salesforce spokesperson confirmed the resignation; Conway had been on the foundation board for a decade; the foundation gave $36 million in 2023 and held $400 million in assets.^[1]

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Business09/24/2026@TechDesk
Benioff Apologizes and Drops His Call for the National Guard in San Francisco
Salesforce…Salesforce Tower, 415, Mission Street, Rincon Hill, San Francisco, California, 94105, United States
Starts 10/17/2025CONFIRMED 87% CONFIDENCE342 days agoCNN^[1] (17 October 2025): Benioff "backtracked on Friday", quoting his post on X that day.
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Starts 09/02/2025CONFIRMED 91% CONFIDENCE1.1 years agoStated as firm: California EDD's WARN report lists Salesforce, Inc., 415 Mission Street, notice date 09/02/2025, 262 permanent layoffs effective 11/03/2025; the SF Examiner^[1]: "The notice of the cuts, which the company filed Tuesday with the state Employment Development Department".
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