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Want to go to the World Economic Forum in Davos? Bring your credit card (or bags and bags of gold).

Thursday, February 3rd, 2011

Andrew Ross Sorkin did the homework none of us wanted to do, and came up with an estimate of how much an evening in Davos will cost if you’re lucky enough to be invited to the WEF this year.

Some highlights:

  • One ticket in the nosebleed seats (including membership fee): $72,000
  • A ticket for you and four of your best cronies: $622,000
  • Number of your cronies who must be a woman for any of you to get in: 1
  • The cost of Google’s party on Friday night: $250,000

And still: “You always feel like you are in the wrong place in Davos, like there is some better meeting going on somewhere in one of the hotels that you really ought to be at. Like the real Davos is happening in secret somewhere.“


So, just wondering… what do you do if you can’t afford any of that?