I need all event organizers to understand what Luma Events and Frontier Tower have done so it doesn't happen to them.
First I have to say I can't ever remember making this kind of post. I typically let these types of things go without putting more energy towards them.
This event was organized by Olivier Partners, I was a speaker and co-host.
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We hosted it with permission of a member/employee of Frontier Tower. Since then despite paying for membership they blocked Olivier leaving 50 people in the lobby from entering for an event which had been on the calendar for weeks, including adding Frontier Tower as a co-host. After FT management tried to extort extra money, while people were waiting to be let into the event and were turned down they decided to kick Olivier out because they were themselves going to try to start an accelerator. No membership fees returned as I understand. Considering I saw a employee drop mic and leave while I stayed at the Superhero hotel, a FT related property, citing multiple employment violations, mind you this person was amazing towards me as a guest and complaints I also heard from FT employees and members who are friends, I don't believe I will be doing business with FT or their related properties ever again. I already regret that I have given them thousands of dollars of my money.
Fast forward Luma starts running thousands of dollars of charges on Olivier cards saved on file, later reversed by Stripe is my understanding. The events are all changed, including this one, which Olivier and I created, but the creator was changed to Frontier Tower, not me even and FT changed the entire body of the event to be a commercial for them. Erasing the history Olivier were involved at all. I don't know what connection the two entities have, but this looks to me like a coordinated attack. Even if it wasn't and it was just a billing mistake and massive coincidence, which happens, the erasure of people after they leave the platform essentially rewriting history is abhorrent behavior. I will never put an event on Luma ever again.
For reference. I worked in developer relations, have organized conferences and hosted many events at many different places all over the world. I have never seen people act so unprofessionally in my entire life.
As for Olivier, they will be just fine.
@AltFuturesAI is helping them launch their own events platform with built in video streaming and a much more robust feature set. They were driving traffic to Luma with their events, not the other way around and were always bigger fans of EventBrite, which I couldn't agree with more, only using Luma because it was required by Frontier Tower.
Insane.