pyramid scheme

As I was watching the train-wreck that was the Inaugural (and only) Fyre Festival unfold, what jumped out at me wasn’t just the story of the con, or the lengths to which people were willing to go to pull this thing off (cough, Andy, cough).

Instead, I took away four lessons we can all use in our everyday lives.

And along comes this exciting concept, where if you put a bunch of money in, and you could talk other people into joining you, that everybody could make a lot of money. And it was all cash, and it was all fast, and it was all fun, and very optimistic and exciting.