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Billy McFarland on Fyre Fest fraud, failure, hacking, & the long road back | E1730

This Week in Startups

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The Naivete of Startups

"I started reaching the limits of what was feasible for a lot of these investors and just pushed people past their comfort zone," he says. "It got to the point where it just wasn't practical to dig ourselves out of that hole" He adds: "There's also a certain naivete, which we in the industry celebrate"

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