Iman Gadzhi openly pays team members he's personally close with 50-100% more than a stronger new hire doing the same role. The logic is emotional and strategic: loyalty and culture fit outweigh marginal skill gains, and you want to finish the journey with the people who started it with you. This inverts the usual meritocratic pay hierarchy by treating tenure and trust as a premium asset.
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