This year I’ve decided to take Harry Truman’s famous “The BUCK STOPS here” sign literally.
So in 2017, all refunds requested by Basecamp customers will come out of my paycheck.
If a customer is unhappy with Basecamp to the point where they request a refund, it should be my penalty. We didn’t make them happy, and, as co-founder and CEO, ultimately that’s my responsibility. So it should be on me.
Logistically, we’re still figuring out how to implement it — a quarterly tally and then a subtraction, some sort of total by the end of the year that reduces an end-of-year dividend, etc. But however we do it, I’ll make my pay net of total refunds for 2017.
Will this continue into 2018 and beyond? We’ll see — this is pure experimentation. No set goals other than I want to see and feel this year’s refunds as a personal responsibility.
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