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The conference is in downtown San Francisco, provides 6 meals, and is throwing 2 parties. If you think $500 is expensive than I don't think you have any idea h
by tylerrooney 16y ago
The conference is in downtown San Francisco, provides 6 meals, and is throwing 2 parties.
If you think $500 is expensive than I don't think you have any idea how much it costs to rent a 300-person conference room at even a mediocre hotel (let alone catering on top of that). And this isn't a mediocre hotel, it's the Hyatt Regency.
That doesn't even touch on the cost of organizing and running the conference, travel and hotel for speakers, etc, etc, etc.
- count 16y agoShmoocon did 1600 people (1200 attendees + speakers/staff). Tickets were $150/ea. The Hotel was the Washington DC Hilton, right in Dupont Circle and freshly remodeled. The hotel was $40k, the open bar on Sat. night was $30k. They brought in $300k and had $100k left over. It's seriously not that expensive, although 6 meals might cost quite a bit more...but only for 300 people? I can't imagine it costing THAT much more.