Dan Price: the Jesus of American business

As CEO of credit-card company Gravity Payments, Dan Price pledged to pay his workers a minimum wage of $70,000 – a move he could come to regret.

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Dan Price: a new Robin Hood or a well-intentioned fool?

Back in April last year, Dan Price was "living the dream", says Forbes. The announcement that he planned to pay 120 employees at his credit-card company, Gravity Payments, a minimum wage of $70,000 partly financed by cutting his own $1m salary to $70,000 saw him hailed as a new Robin Hood, the "Best Boss in America" and a latter-day saint (see below).

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