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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 Importance of Being a Good Programmer

I started programming super young and like I am by no means an all-star programmer at this point, but I was good enough in the early days of cable internet to bring an early 10 years idea to reality. In order to justify breaking the rules to everybody around me, whether that was family or friends or school administrators, I felt like I couldn't show any kinks in the armor and everything had to be perfect. And so in your youth, people rewarded you for being technically able to manifest things in the world at that period of time. But maybe you start getting a little obsessive about the image you have as this entrepreneur. You want to keep up this image that you are a great

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