Meanwhile: "Price had been known to call meetings for the sake of humiliating employees in front of peers. He would deem them to be 'a cancer' on his corporate culture and demeaned them in ways that were deeply affecting."
hundredeightydegrees.com/investigation/… This all leads up to 2015, when he announced that everyone working at his company would make $70k a year, and he would take a pay cut to 70k. The story so far sounds like he did it out of rich guy benevolence, or, given his troubles, even penitence. It's actually worse:

Last night I found an unhinged wordpad doc on my desktop from about a month ago. I'm feeling more at peace now, so I'd like to share some fun facts about this guy, Dan Price. Dan Price:
- Made millions as the CEO of a credit card processing / financial corporation
- Converted his life into a PR project by paying his employees more and taking a pay cut
- Nice looking white man with seemingly baseline progressive politics
- Violently abused his ex wife