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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 Notoriety

I think the way to judge you is how much you pay back over what period of time and how serious this is. You know what you did is terrible, but you seem to be owning it. It's a little crazy to do the fire festival again. I understand the media opportunities. But that is the asset you have is notoriety and the name fire festival. And if you were to pull off one that was modest but made a million dollars or a half million dollars and it went to restitution and it became a thing - fate loves irony. That would certainly be quite paradoxical for a fire festival too to be awesome and for you to pay everybody back. We teased up all of those super

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