We Are Now at Peak TED

Re:We Are Now at Peak TED by ktRolster on Saturday February 20, 2016 @03:46PM (#11141871)

A ticket to TED costs $8500. I didn't realize that.....I look at the audience at TED talks a whole different way now.

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Re:We Are Now at Peak TED by alexashka on Saturday February 20, 2016 @04:53PM (#11142121)

There's a whole caste of people you will never interact with, they're the TED attendees.

I'd venture a guess that as soon as TED became a little popular, it's value actually went down because a bunch of blow-hards would spend the 8500$ to try and give a sales pitch to the elite caste. When that happens, the elite move on.

As an example - in Toronto there's a thing called 'Granite Club', which's just a big gym with tennis courts etc. The initiation fee is 53,000$ per couple.

That's just to make sure people who actually work for a living can't afford it.

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Re:We Are Now at Peak TED by malsun on Saturday February 20, 2016 @03:55PM (#11141910)

There's two things non-technology people don't seem to know about TED when they mention it to me.

First that TEDx events have little to do with TED. Second the prices for proper events are in the elitist levels of society. It's no surprise when you start to notice the audience members are more famous than the speakers.

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Re:We Are Now at Peak TED by lsc on Saturday February 20, 2016 @04:43PM (#11142092)

>First that TEDx events have little to do with TED.

hah. Yes, the continued existence of TEDx indicates that the organizers of TED are not aware of just how severely TEDx damages their brand.

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Re:We Are Now at Peak TED by mseidl on Sunday February 21, 2016 @06:48AM (#11144140)

I don't think it's so bad they charge a lot. They put everything online for free.

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