Salesforce Billionaire Marc Benioff Pledges $200 Million For Reforestation, Climate Entrepreneurs

... [+]Just days ahead of the COP 26 U.N. climate summit in Glasgow, San Francisco tech billionaire Marc Benioff and his wife Lynne are announcing $200 million in commitments to plant trees and fund ecologically-focused entrepreneurs. Salesforce, the software firm he founded and runs, will donate $10 million a year for the next decade to nonprofits working in ecosystem restoration and climate justice, according to a statement from the company.

“We’re in a planetary emergency—a climate crisis that impacts everyone, especially the most vulnerable among us,” Benioff said in a statement. “We need to apply every strategy possible to protect and preserve our planet.” Half of the newly promised $200 million from the Benioffs will go to 1t.org, a project of the World Economic Forum launched in January 2020 to “conserve, restore and grow” one trillion trees globally by 2030. The Benioffs previously donated an undisclosed amount to launch 1t.org.

Benioff, 57, and his wife have in the past supported health care in San Francisco, donating $200 million since 2010 to U.C. San Francisco’s children’s hospitals. Salesforce, which is based in San Francisco and employs 65,000 people, paid no federal income tax in 2020 despite having $2.6 billion in net income in the fiscal year through January 2021, according to

For a second I thought this was the short guy who had no neck that people been making memes about I was like wait did he get surgery?

What happens if Salesforce internal security is as weak as Solarwinds since so many Enterprise level big businesses irresponsibly jumping in because of free PR from Forbes & other news orgs?

Isn't it enough that Enterprise level business jump into Salesforce without any due diligence because of business news FREE promotions? Every Salesforce implementation that touches database records I have seen IS LACKING BASIC ACCOUTING PRINCIPLES & leaves a mess to clean up.

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