I don’t think he’s ever told the story, but it’s worth telling. When we were selling @Behance to Adobe many years ago, @scottbelsky made a spreadsheet of every employee (32 of us at the time) and personally negotiated each persons title, salary and incentive structure, and made that part of the overall deal terms. I heard the phone calls where he went to bat for each individual. He not only didn’t have to do this, but it actually complicated some of the other factors in the deal. It changed the trajectory of so many people’s lives, including my own. 2 years later, 100% of that original team was still at Adobe. Even today, a dozen years later, many of the core members are still there, building. I was inspired by it then, and I'm inspired by it now.
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