> “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.”
More:¹
> Conway wrote that in recent days, he had “expressed candidly” and repeatedly to Benioff that he was “shocked and disappointed” by his “willful ignorance and detachment from the impacts of the ICE immigration raids of families with NO criminal record, efforts to gerrymander elections, attacks on freedom of speech, and other unlawful policies.”
> “Your obsession with and constant annual threats to move Dreamforce to Las Vegas is ironic, since it is a fact that Las Vegas has a higher rate of violent crime than San Francisco,” Mr. Conway wrote. “San Francisco does not need a federal invasion because you don’t like paying for extra security for Dreamforce.”
Oligarchs dissing oligarchs, what else is new. It’s all about power at the end of the day, not power to the people but ego uber alles. How did so many corporate titans get radicalized? Is it that their money insulates them from the plight of everyday citizens?
Just like Huang of Nvidia, Benioff might need a favor from the Orange clown, so he saw this as a perfect moment to simp and grab his attention, regardless of facts or ground reality.
Some bio has "Ron Conway, the man who has placed more bets on Internet start-ups than anyone else in Silicon Valley" and HN is kind of about that stuff.
...except with like everything, like the economy, tech and the leaders of tech, the future of the country, usage of technology by influential forces inside and outside the government, ...—everything?
This will sound rude but I'm trying to be sincere. You might want to take a break from social media. It sounds like you're neglecting your real life a little bit.
> “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.”
More:¹
> Conway wrote that in recent days, he had “expressed candidly” and repeatedly to Benioff that he was “shocked and disappointed” by his “willful ignorance and detachment from the impacts of the ICE immigration raids of families with NO criminal record, efforts to gerrymander elections, attacks on freedom of speech, and other unlawful policies.”
> “Your obsession with and constant annual threats to move Dreamforce to Las Vegas is ironic, since it is a fact that Las Vegas has a higher rate of violent crime than San Francisco,” Mr. Conway wrote. “San Francisco does not need a federal invasion because you don’t like paying for extra security for Dreamforce.”
¹ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/us/salesforce-resign-beni...
"Benioff walks back statement on federal troops in SF" (10/17/2025 4:02pm) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45621460
Oligarchs dissing oligarchs, what else is new. It’s all about power at the end of the day, not power to the people but ego uber alles. How did so many corporate titans get radicalized? Is it that their money insulates them from the plight of everyday citizens?
Just like Huang of Nvidia, Benioff might need a favor from the Orange clown, so he saw this as a perfect moment to simp and grab his attention, regardless of facts or ground reality.
This is a bit of political bickering between to tech moguls if you will. It has nothing to with anything HN related.
Some bio has "Ron Conway, the man who has placed more bets on Internet start-ups than anyone else in Silicon Valley" and HN is kind of about that stuff.
...except with like everything, like the economy, tech and the leaders of tech, the future of the country, usage of technology by influential forces inside and outside the government, ...—everything?
>Politics is everything
This will sound rude but I'm trying to be sincere. You might want to take a break from social media. It sounds like you're neglecting your real life a little bit.
I do love that you are SINCERELY shoving your head that far into the sand.
Say that to those having their REAL LIFE loved ones disappeared to holding facilities in Louisiana and Florida.
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