Fyre Festival's Billy McFarland Dishes On Social Media Marketing, VC, and Prison
Description
Billy McFarland is the founder of Fyre Festival. He joins Big Technology Podcast to discuss what he learned about social media, investing, and prison during his ordeal at the helm at the world's most infamous music festival. Tune in for McFarland's clear-headed insights on what he did wrong, how social media sells a version of the world that is not there, how inflating his numbers changed investors' approach to his business, and what ten months on solitary confinement does to a man. Tune in for a fascinating, deep discussion covering the making and downfall of an internet phenomenon.
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