About a week ago, in an interview with the New York Times, billionaire Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said he agreed with President Trump’s efforts to send National Guard units to “fight crime” in U.S. cities. Specifically, Benioff seemed to suggest that, as his company’s annual Dreamforce conference got underway, a little military-based law and order in the city could be useful (“We don’t have enough cops, so if they can be cops, I’m all for it,” he told the newspaper). He has since been getting it from all angles.

Not long after Benioff’s comments, wealthy venture capitalist Ron Conway, who has long been a board member of Salesforce’s philanthropy wing, announced his resignation from the company. Conway, who had worked at Salesforce for a decade, told Benioff, in an email seen by the

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