Have you heard of Will Reynolds?

[Nittersing]

First, have you heard of Dan Price? He's the CEO up in Portland paying his staff a starting wage of $70,000. Offers plenty of other benefits and his company is thriving.

Well, apparently, he has inspired another entrepreneur to do a similar thing. He was offered 50 million (!!!!!!) for his company and chose his values over $$$$.

https://thephiladelphiacitizen.org/wil-reynolds-seer-interactive/

"So Reynolds, who started Seer in his living room 19 years ago, turned down that $10 million offer. And then, last year, he turned down another offer—for a mind-blowing, “life-changing”, not-even-kidding, $50 million.

Seer has already made Reynolds and his family comfortably wealthy. And the reality is, he doesn’t want to spend his days doing anything else than the work that has made him so successful. Thinking about how he would spend his largesse led Reynolds instead to realize something that has become a bit of a mantra to him: He has enough.

So instead of selling out, he’s doubling down, spreading his company’s wealth to his employees through new minimum salaries and profit-sharing; spending money to encourage volunteerism and charity among his workers and clients; and launching a determined effort to use Seer’s success to invest in the neediest in our community to the tune of $15 to $20 million over the next decade. All this is why Reynolds is part of our Generation Change Philly, The Citizen’s new series in partnership with Keepers of the Commons about local visionaries, disruptors and change-makers.

“I run every morning, and see a lot of pain in this city,” says Reynolds. “I live in Northern Liberties so I go through Fishtown, Port Richmond, Kensington, see people sleeping in their cars, fucked up on heroin, struggling. I can’t run by all that, and then not be more aggressive in how we’re going to be part of the solution to that problem. I just can’t live that life.”

If anyone is looking for work (most are work from home) he's hiring: https://www.seerinteractive.com/careers/

[Karadeniz]

1. Good news always welcome!!!

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2. Thank God there are some good people among us who realize greed is not everything.

[peggysue2]

3. We need positive stories during troubled times

Not the fluff pieces that too many of the news orgs bleat out, but stories that can revive our faith in human beings of good will. It's the sort of thing that lifts the spirit so we can fight another day.

He has enough. That says it all right there.

A message for our times.