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Marc Benioff, chief executive officer of Salesforce Inc., speaks during the 2025 Dreamforce conference in San Francisco, California, US, on Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2025.

FORTUNE: When the media missed the message: Benioff clarifies meaning on multiple levels

Jeffrey Sonnenfeld discusses the medias misunderstanding of key messages from Salesforce founder Marc Benioff about the safety context of the San Francisco-based Dreamforce extravaganza, as well as the nature of the technology it was showcasing but those presumptions are false attempts to understand how a prominent figure in the Bay Area community takes responsibility for leading his company in FORTUNE