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Salesforce’s Benioff Spars With Twitter’s Dorsey Over Support for Homeless

Chairman of Salesforce.com Inc. Marc Benioff

Chairman of Salesforce.com Inc. Marc Benioff

Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg
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Salesforce.com Inc. Chief Executive Officer Marc Benioff gave fellow San Francisco corporate titan Jack Dorsey a piece of his mind on Twitter Friday. Benioff is one of the few tech leaders willing to criticize his own so openly.

On Twitter, Benioff questioned Dorsey’s commitment to combating the city’s homeless crisis and drew attention to tax breaks that he said Dorsey’s companies, Twitter Inc. and Square Inc., got for putting their offices on Market Street, a main San Francisco thoroughfare that is a nexus of poverty and urban renewal. (Square’s address is excluded from the tax break, according to the city).