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From Fyre Festival to Redemption: Billy McFarland on Prison, Entrepreneurship, and Starting Over
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On this episode of Stories Worth Hearing , host John Quick sits down with Billy McFarland , the entrepreneur widely known for the story behind the Fyre Festival , for an open conversation about ambition, accountability, and redemption. Billy shares how his entrepreneurial journey began long before the headlines. As a middle school student, he bought a server and started a small website domain hosting company, discovering early on that he loved building things, solving problems, and creating opportunities online. That early curiosity for technology and business set the foundation for a life driven by entrepreneurship. In this conversation, Billy also reflects on the most difficult chapter of…