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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bielefeld_conspiracy 1. Do you know anybody from "J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference"? 2. Have you ever been to "J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference"? 3. Do you know anybody who has ever been to "J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference"?
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Ha, funnily enough I just bought it after hearing about it on that thread with the 90's 'strange website'. Not cracked it open yet, it's quite a tome.
Don't read it, unless you're in for psychological trauma. That book is messed up
I have a friend who fell for one. He won the Dutch "Student of the Year" award in... I think 2006. When our then-minister of education proposed to make maths more popular in high school by dumbing down the curriculum, he organized a giant STEM activity day on a nation-wide scale to popularize it. We were both physics student at the time.
Anyway, as part of the award he was allowed to pick a conference to go to. He chose one in Spain. When he arrived it turned out he had fallen for an internet scam: the conference only existed as a scam website and the money had disappeared. He still had a nice weekend with his best buddy (now husband) though, and at least it didn't cost him anything.
I've been inside the conference- I used to do due diligence and discovery for Google Ventures and they gave me a ticket one year. The "talks" were eminently forgettable ("we put this in X people and Y died") and the power meetings were... also fairly forgettable. A lot of it is just puffery, and a lot of the dealmakers have no real understanding of the area they are in (softbank seems to be the place where bad ideas…
Aren't these conferences setup like this as they are tax write-offs so you get a holiday for cheap?
The conference sessions aren't what matters. The important thing about these kinds of industry conferences is the ability for investors, leaders, regulators, journalists, and others to meet with each other in a neutral zone. Multiple M&As are being negotiated, IPOs being considered, funds trying to raise a new vintage, and companies starting press junkets in preparation for a roadshow. > it is possible that the entir…
I've been inside the conference- I used to do due diligence and discovery for Google Ventures and they gave me a ticket one year. The "talks" were eminently forgettable ("we put this in X people and Y died") and the power meetings were... also fairly forgettable. A lot of it is just puffery, and a lot of the dealmakers have no real understanding of the area they are in (softbank seems to be the place where bad ideas…
Ok, sure, but were you also involved in dosing the creature that lives under the Westin St Francis?
Please don't mention the beast that is at the heart of SF. It does not like the publicity.
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Aren't these conferences setup like this as they are tax write-offs so you get a holiday for cheap?
I've heard that a lot of medical conferences take advantage of the fact that doctors need to fulfill a quota of "professional development" every year, so they set themselves at very pleasant resort hotels.
At the end, all the doctors fought to pay the bill because it was a tax write-off (business expense? I don't know how professional doctors with practices account for these things). As a grad student in SF living on $25K/year it was quite an eye-opener.
"if you had to meet a stranger in New York City on a specific day, with no way to communicate beforehand, where would you go?" The answer to that in San Francisco was once "meet me by the clock", which is in the lobby of the St. Francis Hotel.[1] "There’s no easy way to sugarcoat this, so I’ll just come out and say it: it is possible that the entirety of California is built on top of one immensely large organism, and…
> The clock was recently overhauled, and is acting as the master clock again. For years, the hotel's time signals were coming from an electric motor clock and then a quartz time standard. But they've reverted to the pendulum clock. Error is about 5 seconds a month. Can't anyone donate them a retired Cesium clock? Or, at least, a GPS receiver.
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Ok, sure, but were you also involved in dosing the creature that lives under the Westin St Francis?
So, I actually only read the first half of the article before making my post. Please don't mention the beast that is at the heart of SF. It does not like the publicity.