Emily Shugerman of The San Francisco Standard spoke with HPR’s Maddie Bender about reports that Salesforce CEO and billionaire Marc Benioff has shifted his focus and money from California to Hawaiʻi.

Salesforce CEO Mark Benioff on Friday apologized for comments he made last week urging President Trump to deploy the National Guard to San Francisco to address public safety.

Daniel Lurie and his high-profile friends in the tech industry convinced Trump to call off deploying federal troops to San Francisco.

My earlier comment came from an abundance of caution around the event, and I sincerely apologize for the concern it caused,” Benioff wrote on X.

Benioff, the Salesforce billionaire, recently stunned the city's political leaders by backing President Trump’s call to send in the National Guard.

Benioff stirred up controversy last week after giving an interview with The New York Times in which he declared his support for President Donald Trump’s threats to deploy National Guard troops in San Francisco and other cities led by Democratic politicians.