Marc Benioff flies to San Diego County as Dreamforce and layoffs dominate his week

Marc Benioff flew from Dallas Love Field to McClellan-Palomar Airport in Carlsbad, California, on June 10, a 2-hour-31-minute hop aboard his Gulfstream G650. The flight lands south of Los Angeles, far from his usual San Francisco orbit, on a day when his company was quietly laying off 86 employees across its Agentforce, MuleSoft, and Marketing Cloud divisions, per a California regulatory filing covered by Outlook Business.

The same week, Dreamforce — Salesforce’s massive annual convention — opens Tuesday at Moscone Center in San Francisco, bringing 45,000 visitors and an estimated $130 million in local spending, as reported by the San Francisco Chronicle. Benioff’s call last fall for National Guard troops to patrol San Francisco streets, made from his private plane in a New York Times interview, stunned his own PR team and drew sharp rebukes from city officials, including District Attorney Brooke Jenkins.

Benioff’s recent flight pattern shows heavy use of his Dallas-area base — he has flown in and out of the region repeatedly in the past month, including trips to Buffalo, Las Vegas, and Washington, D.C. The Carlsbad landing suggests a private stop in North San Diego County, a region he visits with some regularity, though no specific business or personal event at the destination has been publicly documented this week.