Marc Benioff voiced concerns on a San Francisco homelessness measure months before becoming its most prominent booster - Recode
Marc Benioff voiced concerns on a San Francisco homelessness measure months before becoming its most prominent booster - Recode: Over the last few weeks, Salesforce co-CEO and chairman Marc Benioff has cast himself as the champion of a homelessness measure that would raise taxes on San Francisco tech giants, including his own company.
It’s an appealing message of selflessness — the high-profile tech executive willing to forfeit some money in order to help raise $300 million to protect the city’s most vulnerable people. Salesforce is the city’s largest employer and Benioff has been one of the city’s most generous and prolific philanthropists.
But privately, Benioff has at least at one point been more critical of the initiative, according to late July emails sent by him and seen by Recode. In the emails, he voiced concerns about the tax increase assessed on corporations and the $300 million that San Francisco says it already spends to combat homelessness.
It’s an appealing message of selflessness — the high-profile tech executive willing to forfeit some money in order to help raise $300 million to protect the city’s most vulnerable people. Salesforce is the city’s largest employer and Benioff has been one of the city’s most generous and prolific philanthropists.
But privately, Benioff has at least at one point been more critical of the initiative, according to late July emails sent by him and seen by Recode. In the emails, he voiced concerns about the tax increase assessed on corporations and the $300 million that San Francisco says it already spends to combat homelessness.