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The Defining Moment That Changed Everything | Marcel Proskow

26 Mar 2025 · 1 min

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A first-person account by Marcel Proskow describing how he built a specialty design firm under the umbrella of another owner's firm, accepted a low salary with promised bonuses, and experienced repeated denial of those bonuses despite significant revenue growth (including doubling revenue in his third year). The narrative centers on perceived exploitation, business growth, and contractual/incentive disputes.

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He welcomed me in, and it was quite a fortuitous opportunity for me. But little did I realize at the time that he saw me as a gain for him, not a gain for me. So within the guise of his firm, I started a specialty design firm. And we built this firm up. And because I was not completely sure that I had what it took to run my own business, I went onto a deal where I took a very small salary and I was going to be incentivized by bonuses. Well, the first couple of years, I was pretty excited because we were building the business quite a bit. But when it came time to sit down and talk about bonuses, I kept getting these stories that said there really isn't a bonus this year because of all the expenses. Marcel, you don't understand how business works. You're just going to have to try harder. Maybe next year. So in my third year, I took the second year's revenue and doubled it with the same number of people.