Hints and tips:
...— Billy McFarland of Fyre Festival fame is back, and is charging $1,800 an hour for consultations. Which is roughly what we think a McKinsey partner charges, and honestly, what would be better value?...
...Co-founders “J” and “T” turned out to be Josh Lloyd-Watson and Tom McFarland, originally pals from a west London public school....
...Mandy Madden Kelley, entrepreneur I would never part with my Ox Chair, originally by Hans J Wegner....
...McFarland is out of jail and ready for his next move (New York Times) — The death of interviewer Mavis Nicholson was somewhat overshadowed last week....
...Avon also launched two successful celebrity fragrances around that time with Catherine Deneuve and Billy Dee Williams....
...And also for the consumer, whose views about their Billy bookcase may have to change. It is not going in the skip guilt-free after all....
...From Billy McFarland, co-founder of the ill fated Fyre Festival, to Theranos’ Elizabeth Holmes and The Tinder Swindler, popular culture is often mesmerised by confidence tricksters....
...J, and Other Pharma Companies on Covid Vaccine Price and Access (Barron’s) Bank of America Says It Won’t Finance Oil and Gas Exploration in the Arctic (Bloomberg)...
...Rajiv J. Shah) Could carbon labelling soon become routine? (FT)...
...Now you too can own a piece of millennial history, as US Marshalls auction off the remaining Fyre merchandise seized from scammer/founder Billy McFarland after his spectacular 2017 conflagration in the Bahamas...
...(Billy Nauman) ESG in China: growing awareness to gender diversity China’s recent promises to cut carbon emissions drew widespread attention in September....
...Marks and Spencer is offering its employees 15 per cent bonuses and Aldi, J Sainsbury and Tesco have all promised staff an increase in pay and bonuses of 10 per cent....
...Tune in here: https://zoom.us/j/612044679 Welcome to Moral Money....
...Simon Schama FT contributing editor The most memorable read for me this year was a re-read: Stephen J Pyne’s The Ice: A Journey to Antarctica (1986), a stupendous synthesis of natural and cultural history...
...Even if it’s an obscure reference to Teen Wolf, a Michael J Fox movie from the eighties, you don’t dumb down what you’re thinking because you’re not sure that the audience can keep up....
...See Apple’s new titanium card and the infamous Magnises card launched by Billy McFarland, founder of the disastrous Fyre Festival....
...Pink was a theme; worn by Regina King in Versace, Idina Menzel in J....
...The two masterminds, or rather mini-minds, behind the fiasco were the rapper Ja Rule and the “tech entrepreneur” Billy McFarland, with their big dreams and even bigger cigars....
...Billy McFarland, the porcine blaggard who sold tickets to the bogus Fyre music festival on Grand Exuma in 2017, well documented on Netflix, defrauded investors out of a collective $26m while wearing a baseball...
...Billy McFarland, Fyre’s founder, went to jail. Ja Rule said last week — via social media, naturally — that he was himself “hustled, scammed, bamboozled, hood winked, lead astray!!!” by the organisers....
Mike Coupe is to receive a £427,000 bonus after grocer hit performance targets
...Camilla Hodgson Standing room only for the oil and gas company response Ten blocks from the UN climate summit, inside an ornate library built by J Pierpont Morgan, startups backed by 13 of the world’s...
...Billy McFarland, the festival organiser, is currently serving a six-year prison sentence for fraud....
...Pearson Shared Services, a unit of publisher Pearson, former owner of the FT, has the largest gender pay gap in the FTSE 100, at 60 per cent, followed by advertiser J Walter Thompson at 45 per cent....
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