How to Make Your Boss Get a Ridiculous Tattoo

Dashlane CEO Emmanuel Schalit gets his first tattoo, to commemorate one million Dashlane users, at Saved Tattoo in Brooklyn on Oct 8, 2013. Photographer: Erin Patrice O'Brien for Bloomberg.com
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Sitting in a Mexican restaurant in Manhattan last year, Emmanuel Schalit made a promise to his employees. The day his company's user count crosses 1 million, he would get his first tattoo.

With staff egging Schalit on, the announcement was a crowd-pleaser. His company Dashlane, which develops software to manage online passwords and payment information, had a few thousand users when the bet was made in the summer of 2012. In the uncertain world of tech startups, the prospect of having to follow through on his pledge seemed remote at the time.