The TRUTH About Spending $5,000 On A Ticket To A Fancy Tech Conference
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Nicholas Carlson
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It was held at the Montage Resort in Laguna Beach, California.
Speakers included Apple CEO Tim Cook, Jack Ma from Alibaba, former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, and Avatar director James Cameron.
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A couple hundred people attended.
Other than speakers and a few reporters (like us), almost all of the attendees paid $5,000 to go.
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Is going to one of these things worth that kind of money?
Would you spend $5,000 to go to a resort in Southern California and hang out with a bunch of tech executives for three days?
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