Billy McFarland on Creating Fyre Fest, Ja Rule, Kendall Jenner, Serving 4 Years

Billy McFarland, founder of the infamous Fyre Festival, offered an in-depth view into his life and career. He talked about having an early interest in technology, which led him to start building and selling websites before college. After dropping out of college to pursue other interests, McFarland started designing websites for A-list music artists before establishing the card-based club, Magnises. He later talked about creating Fyre Media and what influenced him to launch Fyre Festival. Throughout the rest of the interview, McFarland explained why the festival was a failure, so much so that it resulted in him serving prison time. He detailed his prison time, his thoughts on the Netflix and Hulu series about him, his life after prison, and much more.