Salesforce's billionaire CEO Marc Benioff is quietly buying up vast tracts of real estate in Hawaii
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff has spent millions of dollars quietly buying up roughly 600 acres of green landscapes in Waimea, Hawaii.Since the year 2000, a bigtime tech billionaire purchased at least 38 parcels of land in the small agricultural town on Hawaii’s Big Island, which boasts a population of less than 10,000. Inventory is already low in Waimea, so news of the real-estate purchases worried residents — many of which are Native Hawaiian — about rising housing costs and the loss of the tightknit commun ...