SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — Ron Conway, one of the most prominent and influential venture capitalists in Silicon Valley, has resigned from the board of the Salesforce Foundation over Marc Benioff’s recent comments, according to multiple reports. Conway is the founder of SV Angel, an investment group with a portfolio that reads like a who’s who of tech A-listers, including Airbnb, Doordash, Google and Meta, to name just a few.
Conway, who is also known as a prolific Democratic donor, resigned his position on the board following Benioff’s recent comments on deploying the National Guard to San Francisco. In an email to the Salesforce founder that was first reported by The New York Times, Conway told Benioff their “values were no longer aligned.”
KRON4 News partner, The San Francisco Standard, obtained a copy of the message Conway reportedly sent Benioff…