By Biz Carson and Felipe Marques

(Bloomberg) — Venture capitalist Ron Conway is leaving the board of Salesforce Inc.’s philanthropic foundation after blasting Chief Executive Officer Marc Benioff for calling on President Donald Trump to send the National Guard to San Francisco.

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“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,” Conway said in an email sent Thursday to Benioff and several board members of San Francisco-based Salesforce. A copy of the message was reviewed by Bloomberg News.

Conway told Benioff that he was “shocked and disappointed by your comments calling for an unwanted invasion of San Francisco by federal troops and by your willful ignorance

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