Founder refuses to negotiate salaries — pays every hire exactly what they asked for.
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“A founder who doesn't negotiate salaries sounds like a LinkedIn fairy tale — except his 21-person team has the retention numbers to prove it. In an ecosystem where "competitive pay" usually means competitive for the company, Vivek Kumar is running a quiet experiment: what happens when you just pay people what they're worth? Turns out, they stay.”
Vivek Kumar
Founder @ Alive, Ex-VC, Alive