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Re:Basecamp doesn’t employ anyone in SF, but now we pay ever... by wagecuck on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @03:01PM (#16055035)
Increasing profits is fine. Having workers that are not owners is despicable.
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Re:Basecamp doesn’t employ anyone in SF, but now we pay ever... by sokoloff on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @04:10PM (#16055675)
As a public company, many of our employees are shareholders (literally: owners), some via share-based comp, some via secondary purchases.

We don't enforce that, as a condition of employment, you must accept share-based compensation. Employees are mostly [1] paid in cash and we let employees decide how much of that cash they want to invest in the company.

[1]-some executives are "forced" to accept share-based compensation as part of their comp.

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