DAN PRICE SOCIAL MEDIA POSTS written BY DISGRACED SEATTLE TIMES JOURNALIST WHO SEXUALLY HARASSED WRITER

There comes a time when even the absurd reaches a level of such absurdity that facts feel like fiction. This is that time.

In June of 2019, a New York writer named Talia Jane sought job advice from Seattle Times reporter Mike Rosenberg. Their late night email exchanges were amiable. And then Rosenberg took a sharp right turn.

“Anyway, you’re so beautiful,” followed by, “Anyway you are hilarious,” eventually ending with, “There is so much cum on your face.”

Jane eventually replied, “Show your wife what you said and permanently delete your Twitter account and any other social media you use so you can’t engage in predatory behavior from behind the safety of a screen. And figure out how to handle your shit like an adult.”

Rosenberg explained that he could not delete his Twitter account because it was a lifeline to his day job. He subsequently said, “Not to mention the fact that my wife will be devastated.” He said he would donate $1,000 to the National Organization for Women as a proxy for his perversion.

Jane was unassuaged.

She reported Rosenberg to now former Times Executive Editor Don Shelton who said the paper suspended Rosenberg pending an investigation but did not fire him. Rosenberg apparently resigned 25 days later. The Times sent an internal email to employees but did not make a public statement.

A short while later, Dan Price apparently offered Rosenberg a contract job. And by mid-2020, Price brought him on full-time, largely to ghost write Price’s social media posts. According to a former senior manager at Gravity Payments. “I was privy to Dan’s social strategy on spreading information about wage equality. This is the focus area that Mike works on exclusively.”

Employees complained to Gravity human resources about Price’s decision to hire an admitted sexual predator. Human resources allegedly said, “We believe in second chances and he’s shown his worth by bringing in sales.”

Hundred Eighty Degrees has since reported that multiple women have accused Price of rape, assault, harassment and theft. Price subsequently blocked Hundred Eighty from all Price-related social media accounts and has refused to answer any questions about the allegations, let alone make any public statements despite a throng of people demanding that he do so.

I blocked Dan Price a few months ago when I learned about the domestic abuse allegations from his ex-wife. This rape allegation is even worse. Please stop retweeting him. He seems like a sociopath. https://t.co/JMWWYuoLLH
— Spooky N. Gore (@moorehn) October 2, 2021

According to another former Gravity manager, Price may have had additional motives for hiring Rosenberg. “Dan was livid about the fact that the Times would not write about him more frequently.” In fact, the Times had not written any stories about Price since 2016. Price may have purchased a little piece of the Times for himself, regardless of whether or not it was tainted.

Price does not seem to concern himself with tainted if not duplicitous messaging. After all, his round-the-clock blizzard of social media posts related to wage equality are polluted with tragic irony.

One of Price’s favorite targets is Amazon, or more specifically, founder Jeff Bezos. Price initially praised Bezos — whom Price considers “one of his fellow business leaders” — for his lead on a $15 minimum, but he has since soured on the billionaire, recently calling him a “meat grinder.” Despite his ravenous protestations, Price does not seem to have a problem selling his book on Amazon.

Perhaps even more upside down, Price and Rosenberg relentlessly pontificate about the plight of the average underpaid, overworked, oft-victimized worker. Tweet after tweet, Instagram video after video, LinkedIn screed after screed rages against a system that undermines wage fairness or otherwise diverts opportunities offshore to maximize shareholder value.

Herein lies the rub. Price and his Chief Operating Officer Tammi Kroll recently helped launch a a business named Corezi which offers businesses a suite of tech-based development solutions. And wouldn’t you know it, Corezi offshores its work to India. Kroll’s son happens to be the CEO and seemingly sole US-based operator. Apparently, Price does not take issue with moving jobs and money overseas as long as people don’t generally know about it.

Price owns a yacht, a multi-million dollar house, rarely goes to work, has executive assistants who get his pool cleaned, his shirts pressed and his house parties planned. He also mandated that employees sign a new NDA to keep their mouths shut about his public or private abuse.

And now he has a sexual predator ghost write his meandering, arguably preposterous social posts while facing his own rape and assault charges.

Price often boasts about his employee retention rates and his refusal to fire people. The entire Gravity Payments marketing team — approximately a dozen employees — resigned or was fired between late 2019 to early 2020. Numerous former Gravity employees have told Hundred Eighty Degrees that Gravity leaks employees like a corroded car leaks oil.

Price might somehow get a kick out of employing a disgraced sexual predator who penned pieces for a notable news publication. He is certainly no stranger to making dirty quid pro quo media deals as he did with Inc. Magazine. But millions of folks who follow Price on social platforms arguably deserve to know the truth about the storytellers and the tales they tell.

DAN PRICE SOCIAL MEDIA POSTS written BY DISGRACED SEATTLE TIMES JOURNALIST WHO SEXUALLY HARASSED WRITER

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