Salesforce CEO and Time journal proprietor Marc Benioff joined a refrain of tech-sector assaults on the New York Occasions on Sunday over a narrative targeted on Silicon Valley investor David Sacks’ obvious moral conflicts in his position because the White Home’s AI and crypto czar, claiming the story amounted to close “strategic sabotage.”
“The NYT distortion of [David Sacks’] management in AI, Crypto & Quantum isn’t journalism — it’s nearly strategic sabotage,” Benioff wrote. “Whereas American’s [sic] bicker, our rivals are finding out David’s each transfer. I’ve identified David for many years, and I’ve by no means seen him sharper or extra needed. We have to keep in mind, America wins the century by elevating builders, not tearing them down. David, let’s win this.”
The Occasions didn’t reply to an instantaneous request for remark. The five-person bylined story, titled “Silicon Valley’s Man within the White Home Is Benefiting Himself and His Buddies,” discovered that Sacks’ position in Washington has him influencing coverage that impacts his personal tech investments and people of his associates.
Benioff and Sacks are longtime associates. The previous has appeared on the latter’s standard podcast, “All-In,” and he lavished reward on the tech investor throughout Salesforce’s “Dreamforce” convention in October, the place Sacks appeared as a particular visitor.
“It’s exhausting to imagine every little thing that you simply’ve completed in simply 12 months now,” he mentioned on the time.
Sacks himself labeled the piece a part of the “NYT’S HOAX FACTORY” in a prolonged X put up on Sunday. He mentioned he employed the legislation agency Clare Locke to ship a warning letter to the paper over components of its reporting, through which the attorneys admitted the story took 5 months to report.
