FYRE: A Tale of Greed & Excess gone wrong –The Greatest Party That Never Happened
There was a time in history when, to quote the words placed in the mouth of the Wall Street character Gordon Gekko, it was apropos to say: “Greed is good”. Today it appears that the world has come full circle. With the leader of the free world proclaiming to be a fan of big business, low taxes, and making money, it appears that the moral restraint (at least publicly) on wanting more and more has been thrown to the wayside.
Netflix’s documentary, FYRE: The Greatest Party That Never Happened has it all, the rapper, the young entrepreneur, the beautiful models, and the hot tropical paradise of the Caribbean (God dammit why do we always get the shitty end of the stick!!). It appears that the mantra of ‘greed is good’ has come full circle. It’s frequently mentioned that Mark Twain was quoted to have once said that: “history doesn't repeat itself…but it often rhymes”. And the tale of Gordon Gekko finding himself stuck in a prison cell appears quite similar to that of Billy McFarland.
Considered to be an up and coming entrepreneur with a penchant for risk, not unlike any the titans of today i.e. Elon Musk, Steve Jobs, Evan Spiegal and others, it seemed like only a matter of time before Billy McFarland blew up as the next ‘ entrepreneur of the decade’. Flanked with the legitimacy of a somewhat irrelevant but still connected New York rapper in the form of Ja Rule (50 cent would argue otherwise), FYRE was initially intended to be an mobile application that sought to make the process of booking musical artists a lot easier. Unfortunately, it became a case of a young, crime prone and entitled young, man in the form of Billy McFarland, finding himself behind bars for fraud - among other legal infractions.
What the documentary does leave for us to consider (outside of the fact the our Caribbean brothers and sisters were stiffed out of thousands of dollars in cash – find out how you can help here!) is that if it wasn't for the very public debacle of the FYRE Festival, Billy McFarland may have continued to be funded by unsuspecting investors (although some may argue complicit investors), while breaking the law even more, and hiding under the guise of a young maverick entrepreneur…watch to find out more: Netflix
Also check out Hulu's own FYRE documentary: here
Netflix’s documentary, FYRE: The Greatest Party That Never Happened has it all, the rapper, the young entrepreneur, the beautiful models, and the hot tropical paradise of the Caribbean (God dammit why do we always get the shitty end of the stick!!). It appears that the mantra of ‘greed is good’ has come full circle. It’s frequently mentioned that Mark Twain was quoted to have once said that: “history doesn't repeat itself…but it often rhymes”. And the tale of Gordon Gekko finding himself stuck in a prison cell appears quite similar to that of Billy McFarland.
Considered to be an up and coming entrepreneur with a penchant for risk, not unlike any the titans of today i.e. Elon Musk, Steve Jobs, Evan Spiegal and others, it seemed like only a matter of time before Billy McFarland blew up as the next ‘ entrepreneur of the decade’. Flanked with the legitimacy of a somewhat irrelevant but still connected New York rapper in the form of Ja Rule (50 cent would argue otherwise), FYRE was initially intended to be an mobile application that sought to make the process of booking musical artists a lot easier. Unfortunately, it became a case of a young, crime prone and entitled young, man in the form of Billy McFarland, finding himself behind bars for fraud - among other legal infractions.
What the documentary does leave for us to consider (outside of the fact the our Caribbean brothers and sisters were stiffed out of thousands of dollars in cash – find out how you can help here!) is that if it wasn't for the very public debacle of the FYRE Festival, Billy McFarland may have continued to be funded by unsuspecting investors (although some may argue complicit investors), while breaking the law even more, and hiding under the guise of a young maverick entrepreneur…watch to find out more: Netflix
Also check out Hulu's own FYRE documentary: here
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