Dan Price gained worldwide attention in 2015 when he announced that he was instituting a $70,000 minimum wage at his company, Gravity Payments, and would slash his $1 million salary in order to pay for it.
While many praised the decision as a bold step toward combating income inequality in the United States, others vilified Price as a radical socialist whose experiment was doomed to fail.
But behind the headlines and controversy lay a much more nuanced and personal s.