Updated: 10/16/2025 04:27 PM EDT
A leading San Francisco venture capitalist and close ally of Democratic leaders like Nancy Pelosi resigned on Thursday from the Salesforce Foundation board, saying he’s “shocked and disappointed” over Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff’s support for a National Guard deployment to the city.
Ron Conway sent Benioff and other board members an email tendering his resignation after the CEO told The New York Times he was “all for” President Donald Trump sending troops to San Francisco to fight crime.
“I will miss the great foundation team I have served with for over a decade,” Conway wrote in the email, first reported by the Times and also obtained by POLITICO. “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.”…