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Liberal billionaire Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff threatened to move his companies out of the United States.
“Look, we have to be for equality, we have to be for dignity,” Benioff said.
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“We have to be for the equality and dignity of every human being. And if you’re not for equality and dignity, then this is not something I can work with, and we’re gonna have to exit your city or your state, just as we have in many places,” he continued.
In an interview, Benioff talked about “making something happen that supports our employees. The number one thing is we must have our employees’ back.”
In talking about conservatives, Benioff said, “You know, and I know we are dealing with a whole series of crazy presidents, crazy governors, crazy mayors all over the world in every country, city, and state.”
Benioff went on to say, “I’m really talking about all of the situations that I’ve had to go through, over the last decade, especially where our employees will contact me and say something is just not right.”
Benioff discussed what happened in 2015 when he threatened to pull Salesforce out of Indiana when the state had passed the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, signed by then-governor of Indiana Mike Pence.
The bill passed, but Pence did sign a revised version.
More on this story via Daily Wire:
In September 2021, Salesforce told its Texas employees that if they were worried about Texas’ new anti-abortion law, the company would help them relocate.
Harlow asked if Benioff would pull his company from states that had outlawed abortion or passed stricter laws against it.
“We actually just said, if you are going to discriminate against our employees, we won’t be able to set up shop there,” Benioff bragged of 2015. “And when we said that, 200 other companies the next day, the largest companies in the United States all said, ‘We agree. We have to support our LGBTQ communities as well.’”
