Marc Benioff Quotes
I just cannot understand why we can't have better schools. That private schools are the only option for the kind of high-net-worth crowd, I think, is ridiculous. It should be a major initiative. It should be something we're all working on. We have to get our head out of the clouds.
Benioff, Marc. Interview. The New York Times, 2015.
The mayor had eliminated an independent Board of Education and obtained more control of the Chicago Public Schools and instituted long needed reforms.
Quoted in the Court’s notes of the meeting
The organization was initially called the National Negro Committee. The following year the name was changed to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Note that at the time, even for Blacks, the concept of desegregation was so far from reality that their efforts were simply to have segregated schools with the same resources as the white children had. The “separate but equal” doctrine was the method of the segregationists.
Marc Russell Benioff is an American internet entrepreneur, with a net worth of $8.8 billion as of May 2020. He is the founder, chairman and CEO of Salesforce, an enterprise cloud computing company. As of June 2020, he owned 3.36% of Salesforce shares, worth $4.8 billion.