it is time to take out the trash.
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That's right.
It's time for
garbage people on the damage report where we take out the trash every friday,
the worst person of the week erin you've got one I hadn't heard of this gentleman.
He wasn't on our poll dan price, Yes Dan Price, the Twitter,
famous CEO of gravity payments who made news a few years ago for
like instituting a $70,000 minimum wage for
people who work at this company and eventually raising that to 80,000.
He's a guy who is tweeting all the time about inequity and
Ceo pay being way over the top.
And he's he's like a famous good guy, a famous good guy who's always going off
about economic inequality and how you know, Ceos will save us.
Here's a tweet of his saying a male president was so angry he lost,
he incited a mob against us capitol.
Never want to hear that women would be too emotional to be president.
This guy is definitely a hashtag feminist in his bio.
>> Yeah, I mean that joke has been made 7000 times since the year 2016,
but you know, you'll I'll forgive a businessman for for tweeting that.
It's like you didn't have to say that, but I appreciate that you did.
Here's the thing behind all of those nice headlines and
those sweet things, right things.
There was a darker side.
It turns out he was a bit of an abuser and by a bit of an abuser.
I mean the new york times interviewed 12 women who
implied who say that behind the scenes, he was kind of a monster.
And these accusations are really serious domestic violence, rape.
Really, really, really serious.
And he used his position as this sort of like twitter, famous good guy to lure
women in and he actually wasn't the person that he depicted himself be.
And it's, I feel like it's a really good object lesson in trust, but
verify if somebody is saying all the right things, if someone is saying all
the right things, that's good, we're glad they're saying all the right things,
but sometimes saying all the right things and
acting like a good guy in public just hides something much darker in private.
And the thing is the stories about dan price being kind of not who he said,
he was really have been out there since 2015, but
he sort of eclipse the bad press by making himself into this
public figure who was saying these popular things on Twitter and
getting tons of famous people to jump aboard with him.
Getting a ton.
I mean, look, I followed him and sometimes he would say things, I'd be like, yeah,
that's right, smash that.
Like button point things out like Ceo pay has grown 40 fold since 1980 worker
pay has only grown x, you know, things that are like, yes, I agree with that.
But yeah,
I think that it's just really important when a person says all the right things
to not just overlook the possibility that they could actually be bad.
>> Yeah. And, just for
some more detail about how bad.
So this is from the Guardian, This is graphic three.
He was sued by his brother who claimed he was over paying himself,
which is whatever.
But that's funny because he was also claiming that he ceo pay was too much.
The lawsuit failed.
Then Bloomberg reported in 2015 on a ted X talk given by Price's wife, Christie
cologne in which she described being waterboarded and beaten by her ex cologne.
Didn't name price who told the outlet that the events never happened.
I can't imagine The kind of disgusting human being
you'd have to do to waterboard your wife, okay.
In February of this year, price was charged with a misdemeanor assault and
reckless driving.
According to documents reported by the Seattle Times,
a 26 year old woman called Seattle to report,
she had met price at a restaurant to discuss professional matters.
In his Tesla sedan After dinner, prosecutor said Price had attempted to
kiss the woman grabbed her throat when she refused and
then performed donuts with the car in the parking lot.
Prices pled not guilty to the charges.
Needless to say he's resigned as gravity payments.
CEO and yeah, he can f off into the night for all I care