He's also mortgaged his house and sold all of his investments to come up with a $3 million nest egg he could put into Gravity Payments, his payment processing firm, to weather the storm stirred up by the raises. "I wanted a larger margin for error," he said in explaining the mortgage and asset sales. "Victory is far from secure, but the trends are positive.
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