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An insider who saw the failure coming (includes a promo video also like parody) ... http://nymag.com/thecut/2017/04/fyre-festival-exumas-bahamas-disaster.html h

• ufmace 9y ago
  Best line is at the end: > They overlooked so many very basic things. And baby, they forgot to make me sign an NDA. What are the odds that they made plenty of legal mistakes in addition to the logistical ones? I would bet that everyone involved in this will have a very bad time over the next few months and years, and anyone who backed it financially will think harder before committing serious money when all they've seen is a slick marketing campaign.
• badosu 9y ago
  On Wednesday, Ja Rule arrived for a “site visit.” I don’t know if he actually visited the “site” but he did spend a lot of time on a yacht, according to his Instagram. Meanwhile the event planners were holed up indoors putting together a game plan and a budget. With so little having been prepared ahead of time, the official verdict was that it would take $50 million to pull off. Planners also warned that it would be not be up to the standard they had advertised. The best idea, they said, would be to roll everyone’s tickets over to 2018 and start planning for the next year immediately. They had a meeting with the Fyre execs to deliver the news. A guy from the marketing team said, “Let’s just do it and be legends, man.” This paragraph is amazing, I bet you can find an anecdote pretty similar in the startup world..
  • drewrv 9y ago
    > “Let’s just do it and be legends, man.” Well, mission accomplished I suppose.