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The TRUTH About Spending $5,000 On A Ticket To A Fancy Tech Conference

Nicholas CarlsonNov 1, 2014, 19:27 IST

Earlier this week, The Wall Street Journal put on its very first tech conference, called WSJD Live.

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.

A couple hundred people attended.

Other than speakers and a few reporters (like us), almost all of the attendees paid $5,000 to go.

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?