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The Leaked Fyre Festival Pitch Deck Is Beyond Parody

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Re: The Leaked Fyre Festival Pitch Deck Is Beyond Parody

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Post by badosu »

irickt wrote: post #6

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

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..

Re: The Leaked Fyre Festival Pitch Deck Is Beyond Parody

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Post by will_brown »

vectorpush wrote: post #37
threeseed wrote: post #14

Disappointing that HN of all places couldn't be a little more discerning when reviewing this. Because from what I've heard there was a legitimate business problem that Fyre was attempting to solve. (1) All of the middle men between talent and event organisers and (2) the lack of luxury concert events. Are they completely inept at following through with this ? Yes. But the idea wasn't that bad. And they deserve credit…

I think HN just has a low tolerance for willful incompetence, especially when charging gigantic fees to the consumer. As has been pointed out by other articles, despite many warning signs that this festival would be impossible to pull off as advertised, the organizers continued to crank the hype machines into turbo mode while slurping up cash from consumers till the last minute. It's a scam.

Well if you think about the fact that almost every startup that goes through YC raises probably $1M+ after demo day, and 9 out of 10 investments likely to lose, but hey move fast and break things as long as it's not a concert for rich people.

In fact your comment could just as well be about many "unicorns" in tech who seem far more than willfully incompetant (e.g. Theranos; Uber); or according to who you ask Etherium (for being hacked and/or forking); and from the sound of press maybe MagicLeap the billion dollar startup who cant seem To launch a product may end up fitting the mold.

Re: The Leaked Fyre Festival Pitch Deck Is Beyond Parody

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vectorpush wrote: post #37
threeseed wrote: post #14

Disappointing that HN of all places couldn't be a little more discerning when reviewing this. Because from what I've heard there was a legitimate business problem that Fyre was attempting to solve. (1) All of the middle men between talent and event organisers and (2) the lack of luxury concert events. Are they completely inept at following through with this ? Yes. But the idea wasn't that bad. And they deserve credit…

I think HN just has a low tolerance for willful incompetence, especially when charging gigantic fees to the consumer. As has been pointed out by other articles, despite many warning signs that this festival would be impossible to pull off as advertised, the organizers continued to crank the hype machines into turbo mode while slurping up cash from consumers till the last minute. It's a scam.

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Re: The Leaked Fyre Festival Pitch Deck Is Beyond Parody

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vectorpush wrote: post #37
threeseed wrote: post #14

Disappointing that HN of all places couldn't be a little more discerning when reviewing this. Because from what I've heard there was a legitimate business problem that Fyre was attempting to solve. (1) All of the middle men between talent and event organisers and (2) the lack of luxury concert events. Are they completely inept at following through with this ? Yes. But the idea wasn't that bad. And they deserve credit…

I think HN just has a low tolerance for willful incompetence, especially when charging gigantic fees to the consumer. As has been pointed out by other articles, despite many warning signs that this festival would be impossible to pull off as advertised, the organizers continued to crank the hype machines into turbo mode while slurping up cash from consumers till the last minute. It's a scam.

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Re: The Leaked Fyre Festival Pitch Deck Is Beyond Parody

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Post by acconrad »

austenallred wrote: post #24
walrus01 wrote: post #7

If it had not been a complete and utter failure, the pitch deck would have been just another unremarkable example of marketing/PR fluffery, and wouldn't have been worth commenting on. Doesn't look any different from media marketing I've seen for things that were successful.

If you're looking for BS marketing-speak this is amateur work. Want to see the pros? Sit back and watch Arnell take it (and Pepsi) to the next level: https://www.goldennumber.net/wp-content/uploads/pepsi-arnell... . There's literally a slide that references "light path with gravitational pull" -> "gravitational pull of Pepsi", "relativity of space and time" -> "Pepsi aisle." Or the slide referencing the expansion of…

Is this real? This is genuinely one of the funniest and most absurd documents I have ever seen in my life. I am crying I am laughing so hard. I genuinely hope someone pitched this to Pepsi

EDIT: I have confirmed this is from a real creative agency, but was purely for entertainment and was not a real pitch deck.

Re: The Leaked Fyre Festival Pitch Deck Is Beyond Parody

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Post by pavement »

austenallred wrote: post #24
walrus01 wrote: post #7

If it had not been a complete and utter failure, the pitch deck would have been just another unremarkable example of marketing/PR fluffery, and wouldn't have been worth commenting on. Doesn't look any different from media marketing I've seen for things that were successful.

If you're looking for BS marketing-speak this is amateur work. Want to see the pros? Sit back and watch Arnell take it (and Pepsi) to the next level: https://www.goldennumber.net/wp-content/uploads/pepsi-arnell... . There's literally a slide that references "light path with gravitational pull" -> "gravitational pull of Pepsi", "relativity of space and time" -> "Pepsi aisle." Or the slide referencing the expansion of…

  1 Light Year  = Pepsi Planet

  2 Light Years = Pepsi Galaxy

  8 Light Years = Pepsi Universe
Man, that's a small universe. To be fair though, it's clearly marked as an unfinished draft.

Re: The Leaked Fyre Festival Pitch Deck Is Beyond Parody

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Post by [deleted] »

austenallred wrote: post #24
walrus01 wrote: post #7

If it had not been a complete and utter failure, the pitch deck would have been just another unremarkable example of marketing/PR fluffery, and wouldn't have been worth commenting on. Doesn't look any different from media marketing I've seen for things that were successful.

If you're looking for BS marketing-speak this is amateur work. Want to see the pros? Sit back and watch Arnell take it (and Pepsi) to the next level: https://www.goldennumber.net/wp-content/uploads/pepsi-arnell... . There's literally a slide that references "light path with gravitational pull" -> "gravitational pull of Pepsi", "relativity of space and time" -> "Pepsi aisle." Or the slide referencing the expansion of…

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