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By Andrew Davidson

Take two women: one a City lawyer turned banker, the other a multilingual journalist turned charity boss.

Shake gently. And out pops Justgiving, the charity fundraising dotcom that is becoming a seriously profitable business. Just tread lightly when asking about their motivation.

“I didn’t set it up to make money. That’s an important distinction,” says chief executive Zarine Kharas, shaking her head.

Zarine kharas biography of rory

Managing director Anne-Marie Huby is equally firm. “It just makes us sharper, being a for-profit company,” she says. Not least, it means Justgiving can pay competitive salaries in a technology service sector where talent is at a premium.

Or does it?

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Kharas and Huby, when I ask, can’t agree where they benchmark their salaries, but that seems par for the course in a singular business with 56 staff that has rewritten the fundraising rulebook. It has also annoyed some in the process.

Kharas and Huby have created a dot