The former chief of Gravity Payments rose to prominence with the introduction of his company’s $70,000 minimum salary and a splashy social media presence.
Karen Weise, a tech correspondent in Seattle, has spoken with more than 50 people who knew Dan Price since she first reported on him in 2015.
Dan Price, a Seattle tech executive who rose to fame for publicly raising the salaries of his employees and as a progressive social media influencer, was charged with rape on Thursday in Riverside County, Calif., according to court records.
Mr. Price, 40, was indicted last month by a grand jury on a charge of rape of an unconscious victim, according to Riverside Superior Court records unsealed on Thursday. Mr. Price, who voluntarily appeared in court and posted $55,000 in bail on Thursday, is scheduled to be arraigned in January, according to the documents.
The indictment stems from an incident in 2021 when, a girlfriend said, Mr. Price raped her at the Ace Hotel in Palm Springs, Calif., after she had said she did not want to have sex, took a cannabis edible and went to sleep. The woman, Kacie Margis, reported the incident to the police the next day. She went public with her story in 2022 as part of a New York Times investigation that found that Mr. Price had repeatedly used his fame to enable a pattern of abuse in his personal life and hostile behavior at his company.