{"id":36000,"date":"2020-01-11T22:23:05","date_gmt":"2020-01-11T22:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/?p=36000"},"modified":"2020-01-11T22:23:05","modified_gmt":"2020-01-11T22:23:05","slug":"salesforce-billionaire-marc-benioff-was-spotted-front-row-at-ivanka-trumps-controversial-ces-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/?p=36000","title":{"rendered":"Salesforce billionaire Marc Benioff was spotted front row at Ivanka Trump&#8217;s controversial CES speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static6.businessinsider.com\/image\/5d4db1623e0b7b434f5a0755-2400\/2015-11-04t120000z1605987490gf20000044646rtrmadp3fortune-conference.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"marc benioff\" \/>REUTERS\/ Elijah Nouvelage<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/category\/salesforce?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=referral\">Salesforce<\/a> co-CEO <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/category\/marc-benioff?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=referral\">Marc Benioff<\/a> was spotted in the crowd at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/category\/ivanka-trump?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=referral\">Ivanka Trump&#8217;s<\/a> keynote speech at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/category\/ces-2020?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=referral\">CES<\/a> on Tuesday. Benioff and Trump have met at least once before &#8212; when she visited Salesforce Tower in Indianapolis last-place May and spoke at a company event. Benioff is outspoken about changes he&#8217;d like to see in the tech industry, but he describes himself as &#8220;not a Republican or a Democrat.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=referral\">Visit Business Insider&#8217;s homepage for more narratives .<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Despite <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/carolinamilanesi\/2020\/12\/31\/ivanka-trump-keynoting-at-ces-is-all-that-is-wrong-for-women-in-tech\/#4b74c34016d7\">the controversy<\/a> surrounding Ivanka Trump&#8217;s talk at this year&#8217;s Consumer Electronics Show( CES ), it drew at least one high-profile attendee: Salesforce co-CEO Marc Benioff. <\/p>\n<p>The exec was spotted front row at the event on Tuesday by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Jamesco\/status\/1214672617983971330\">photographer James Martin<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/marc-benioff-salesforce-attends-ivanka-trump-ces-2020-keynote-2020-1?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=referral\">See the rest of the story at Business Insider<\/a><\/p>\n<p>NOW WATCH: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/real-map-louisiana-should-scare-you-2017-6?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=referral\">Most maps of Louisiana aren&#8217;t entirely right. Here&#8217;s what the state really looks a lot like .<\/a><\/p>\n<p>See Also \ud83d\ude1b TAGEND<a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/google-assistant-500-million-users-challenges-amazon-alexa-2020-1?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=referral\">Google merely revealed that half a billion people around the world are using the Google Assistant as it battles with Amazon to conquer the smart-alecky home<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/sony-electric-concept-car-vision-s-ces-2020-photos-2020-1?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=referral\">Sony just astonished everyone by unveiling an electric concept car that has a massive recreation structure and can park itself<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/impossible-foods-burger-king-breakfast-sandwich-launch-pork-2020-1?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=referral\">Impossible Foods is ramping up the plant-based breakfast battle with a new breakfast sandwich at Burger King<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/businessinsider?a=YzrvZD8Hu_k:WsBSovrZ_OA:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/businessinsider?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"> <\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/businessinsider?a=YzrvZD8Hu_k:WsBSovrZ_OA:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/businessinsider?i=YzrvZD8Hu_k:WsBSovrZ_OA:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"> <\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/businessinsider?a=YzrvZD8Hu_k:WsBSovrZ_OA:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/businessinsider?i=YzrvZD8Hu_k:WsBSovrZ_OA:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"> <\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/businessinsider?a=YzrvZD8Hu_k:WsBSovrZ_OA:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/businessinsider?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"> <\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/businessinsider?a=YzrvZD8Hu_k:WsBSovrZ_OA:gIN9vFwOqvQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/businessinsider?i=YzrvZD8Hu_k:WsBSovrZ_OA:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\"> <\/img><\/a> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/businessinsider\/~4\/YzrvZD8Hu_k\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/businessinsider\/~3\/YzrvZD8Hu_k\/marc-benioff-salesforce-attends-ivanka-trump-ces-2020-keynote-2020-1\">feedproxy.google.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>REUTERS\/ Elijah Nouvelage Salesforce co-CEO Marc Benioff was spotted in the crowd at Ivanka Trump&#8217;s keynote speech at CES on Tuesday. Benioff and Trump have met at least once before &#8212; when she visited Salesforce Tower in Indianapolis last-place May and spoke at a company event. Benioff is outspoken about changes he&#8217;d like to see &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36001,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1021,16515,15748,18247,20570,2201,20571,15942],"class_list":["post-36000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-uncategorized","tag-business","tag-ivanka","tag-just","tag-least","tag-marc","tag-speech","tag-spotted","tag-trumps"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/5ce6ffc418fe604ab540f2d31578781385.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/36001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}