Dan Price: the worst CEO in America

How he used his internet fame and social media to abuse women.

Dan Price was every modern liberal’s icon. He was corporate America’s Bernie Sanders. If Dan Price could do it, so could every business owner. Some even led to some small businesses to pay higher wages to employees. He was an icon, an inspiration.

Price was the CEO for Gravity Payments, a credit card and financial services company based in Seattle, Wash. He is best known for his publicity stunt immediately after being named Gravity’s CEO. He said he would pay every employee — 110 of them at the time — a minimum salary of $70,000.

He’s known for viral tweets like, “Lifting someone out of poverty is the most effective anti-depressant in the world.”

He once posted on LinkedIn: “In the unlikely event that you are falsely accused, remember that it will be much easier for you to overcome false allegations than it will be for actual victims to overcome the trauma of harassment or assault.”

He’s been on the front page of Esquire Magazine. He’s appeared on The Daily Show and done numerous photo shoots. Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich called him “the one moral CEO” in America.

A New York Times exposé outlines the various ways that Price used his platform to…