Elon Musk recycled his old SF is a [fill in the blank] zombie apocalypse' string of insults in support of Salesforce CEO Marc Beniof's statement on Friday that the National Guard should clean up the crime in San Francisco. Musk jumped into the conversation surrounding Beniof's statement on X Saturday along with a slew of others locally and nationally. The timing is notable given the recent news that Musk's startup Neuralink just signed a lease on an 144,209-square-foot building in South San Francisco, per SFist.
Marc Benioff has become the latest Silicon Valley tech leader to signal his approval of President Donald Trump, saying that the president is doing a great job and ought to deploy the National Guard to deal with crime in San Francisco. The Salesforce chief executive's comments came as he headed to San Francisco to host his annual Dreamforce conference an event for which he said he had to hire hundreds of off-duty police to provide security.