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The “$70,000 CEO” Dan Price Resigns — After a Slew of Assault Allegations
It goes way deeper than most people realize.
I’ve long called him Payroll Jesus and he didn’t like it.
So much so that he deleted my comments every time.
Until yesterday, Dan Price was the CEO of Gravity Payments, a 250-employee payment processing company.
He was a viral sensation on Twitter and LinkedIn, famously lowering his pay by 90% in order to raise his worker's minimum pay to $70,000. You couldn’t go two days on LinkedIn without seeing his face and him talking about it.
You’ll still see him everywhere, but not for that reason.
Dan Price just stepped down as CEO, as more assault allegations pile up. A bombshell New York Times story was released Friday, citing his huge social media presence was created to hide “a pattern of abuse in his personal life and hostile behavior at his company.”
A 27-year-old artist, Kacie Margis, said she had a 3-month relationship with Price. They’d met after Price DM’d…
