Smartsheet fought a legal battle to hire this ex-Amazon exec — and now it’s paying him almost $1 million more than the CEO (AMZN)

LinkedIn/Gene Farrell On Monday, cloud-based project management software company Smartsheet filed to go public. The filing revealed that it paid exec Gene Farrell almost $ 2.7 million in 2017 — that’s 70% more than CEO Mark Mader’s total compensation package of $ 1.9 million. Farrell is an ex-Amazon Web Services vice president who came out […]