Fyre Festival's Billy McFarland Tells Us His Next Move, Lessons Learned In Jail, and More

Most internet entrepreneurs when they get into starting businesses, they do things that are either black hat or gray hat and then they realize I gotta do things legit because I don't wanna go to jail and I can make more money doing things ethically. And not breaking the law. Like you just like make so much more money legit. How on earth did you not learn that lesson earlier? All right.

Today's pod is interesting. We just had Billy McFarlane in. He's famous for the Fire Festival thing, which basically was this like Huge Coachella type event that went viral four years ago and he ended up committing a ton of crimes that he admitted to and Was

charged and convicted of like twenty five or thirty million dollars with a fraud. We just had him on the pod. Very confusing pod, Sean, I think. Not confusing, but c but like mixed emotions. Yeah, yeah. I I mean he's an interesting guy. He's also uh complicated like most people. And uh Yeah, I I don't know. I think we I think it was pretty interesting. We talked about a bunch of things. We talked about

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