The "no layoffs pledge" article you linked is a great example: he talked a big game about how Salesforce wasn't going to do any layoffs during the pandemic, and how other companies can't be expected to meet that standard, but they should pledge no layoffs 90 days as a start.

Then, 91 days later, Salesforce did major layoffs. Bret Taylor, who was co-CEO at the time, repeatedly reassured the whole company at a series of all-hands meetings that this was a one-time strategic unfortunate necessity, on the same day that Benioff was trying to drive up the stock price by telling MSNBC that it would be an annual exercise (and it was). Since then, they've done major layoffs every year, and the word I hear from my former colleagues is that Benioff's personal V2MOM (which is "pushed down" from the top through the entire org chart as mandatory priorities) includes mandating 5% stack ranking across the company, alongside a required return-to-office 3 days a week, and a high mandatory "badge level" for all employees on the internal corporate-trainings tool (meaning all employees have to complete something like 40 hours of mostly-irrelevant formerly-optional trainings).

"Stakeholder capitalism" was brought up on several occasions internally during that first wave of layoffs, and during at least one of the subsequent waves that I saw happen while I was there, and numerous questions were submitted to each exec AMA I saw about how layoffs fit in with "stakeholder capitalism". In every case, the question was either dodged with a "that's not applicable here" answer, or else not even posed to the exec (as if it hadn't been submitted at all) even though it was submitted by at least several dozen people.

There are several other examples, like his "just the tip" joke about his ego-skyscraper (and plenty of other cases where the executive suite had to do an apology tour after Benioff made yet another sexist or racist comment internally, like talking about "opening the kimono" and stuff like that -- despite the company always talking up "hashtag equality" as a company value).

The reality is that Benioff is just Larry Ellison, but with ostensibly-slightly-blue-flavored politics (except for where it comes to anything that would impact his bottom line, like corporate tax rates or software patent reform), instead of red-flavored politics. He came from Oracle, and Oracle is in his blood -- every day it becomes more and more obvious that the only thing he didn't like about Oracle was that someone else was running the ship instead of him.