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TIL CEO Dan Price cut his $1.1M salary to $70K so all employees would earn at least that much. Critics called him a “socialist lunatic" and predicted the company would go bankrupt but the move paid off: Revenue tripled, employee turnover fell, workers paid off debt, bought homes and started families

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