Think like a billionaire part one – podcast

Journalist Olivia Lee was in Fabric nightclub in London when she heard a story that intrigued her: a tech founder told her a tale of woe about a luxury networking event he had been to. He told Lee there were supposed to be yacht trips and gala dinners. But nothing had gone as planned. “He claimed that there were these really chaotic scenes of taxi drivers supposedly working for the organiser going on strike because they hadn’t been paid. People chucked out of hotel rooms because the organiser appeared to have not paid the hotel bill.” The woman he said was behind the event was Julie Meyer. An entrepreneur who had been the queen of the 00s dotcom scene in London and was later awarded an MBE. Lee, along with Juliette Garside from the Guardian’s investigations team, began looking into Meyer. Lee tells Helen Pidd what she learned about the tech entrepreneur and the accusations made against her. Photograph: Micha Theiner/Cityam/Shutterstock