I think it'd be nice if ad-blockers would block influencers.
The Leaked Fyre Festival Pitch Deck Is Beyond Parody
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#82Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
I think Coke's pitch deck goes something like: - Never acknowledge the existence of Pepsi. - Always be classic. - Always be timeless. I think brands that work well do so because they keep a simple message and avoid the allure of self-justifying marketing people.
Their product is also simply better. More people prefer it. The best mousetrap is still a big lever.
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#83I think it'd be nice if ad-blockers would block influencers.
I know you meant it as a joke, but I would honestly pay for a browser plug in that automatically blocked any mention of people with more than X Instagram followers. I don't want to live on the same planet as those pretentious idiots.
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#84Well, the pitch deck more or less did offer something different, to be part of something new, to make them think etc.
They undoubtedly delivered.
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#85Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
Well, Theranos and Etherium are met with frequent criticism on this board with good reason, but the issue isn't about losing out on an investment - which is obviously a risk with any company and clearly not applicable in the case of Uber - but rather, negligent, reckless or fraudulent behavior dressed up in tons of marketing buzz and obfuscated by insane levels of hype that functions only to inflate the ego and perceived prestige of the founders while simultaneously fleecing consumers of their money. The bigger the hype to inevitable-reality gap, the bigger the schadenfreude payoff when the scammer house of cards finally collapses in on itself.
Re: The Leaked Fyre Festival Pitch Deck Is Beyond Parody
#86I took the liberty of correcting one of their slides. You're welcome, Fyre!
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#87The real question is how long until someone kickstarts a fyrefest gone right.
The whole concept of Fyre Fest I'd leveraging social media influencers to extract money from the influenced; it's it exactly a Kickstarter-friendly concept (well, unless you use the influencers to promote a KS itself.)
As to a Kickstarted festival of the type Fyre purported to offer purchasers, it seems to be explicitly prohibited by Kickstarter's terms, falling squarely into the travel services / vacation packages prohibition.
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#88Disappointing 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…
Except that perhaps all those middle men in between talent and event organizers are what make an event successful? Complaining about "middle men" is not dissimilar to complaining about "the Man" keeping you down. Is there a largess of utterly pointless people in a large bureaucratic organizations? Surely. Are all those "middle men" that take money in exchange for coordinating setting up and tearing down Cochella prof…
If you want to pay some C-list "celebrity" to just show up at your party that doesn't take much in the way of middle men. So booking those appearances might be a viable niche business.
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#89Here's a direct link to the deck itself: https://www.scribd.com/document/346949516/Fyre-Festival-Pitc...
Link is private
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#90Fyre Festival feels like something Jon Ralphio (Parks and Rec) would put together.
Meanwhile the UN Refugee agency reported that one of their warehouses had been looted and many of their tents were stolen http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.3122436.14936470...
;)