World Economic Forum charges high buy-in to become ‘world leader’, says entrepreneur

The World Economic Forum’s exclusive school for globalist elites charges a high buy-in from its attendees, says entrepreneur Jason Calacanis, who says he was offered a spot.

The Forum of Young Global Leaders, formerly known as the Global Leaders of Tomorrow, is a program in which individuals under 40 are groomed to be globalist leaders and implement the World Economic Forum’s agenda. 

On its website, the YGL describes itself as “an accelerator for a dynamic community of exceptional people” who are “aligned with the World Economic Forum’s mission” and “seek to drive public-private co-operation in the global public interest.”

The Forum of Young Global Leaders (YGL) proudly boasts among its alumni New Zealand’s totalitarian outgoing Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, French President Emmanuel Macron, California Governor Gavin Newsom, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, Microsoft’s Bill Gates, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, Virgin’s Richard Branson, and the Clinton Foundation’s Chelsea Clinton, all of whom have supported the WEF’s Great Reset agenda in lockstep.

But at least one person turned down an offer from the WEF to become one of the powerful elite. Jason Calacanis, a successful dot com entrepreneur and angel investor, said on his “All-In” podcast last week that he was offered a spot on YGL’s exclusive roster for $40,000.

“Davos is a huge grift,” shared Calacanis. “They recruited me to be part of their ‘world leaders’ 15 years ago after I had sold my second company, and I met [World Economic Forum Founder and Chairman] Klaus [Schwab], the guy who runs it, at some New York Four Seasons event. And then I got the bill. And to be a ‘world leader’ was forty f*cking thousand dollars. And I was like ‘What? A global future leader? I don’t even know what that means but I’m not giving you forty thousand dollars.’”

“So you had to pay?” asked co-host Chamath Palihapitiya incredulously.

“You had to pay to be a ‘global future leader’,” Calacanis confirmed, adding that he declined the invitation.

The entrepreneur also went on to say that the journalists who are allowed to attend the WEF’s annual summit in Davos, Switzerland and cover the event have “access journalism” passes.

“They get to come there and they get to hang out with elites if and only if their coverage fits a certain profile. And if you find me the top ten most critical, anti-globalization journalists in the world, I can guarantee you that they don’t have credentials. I think it’s like a bankrupt organization that should be shut down.” 

Indeed, genuine journalists such as those from Rebel News who report on Davos each year and pose challenging questions to the event’s attendees are denied press credentials. Rebel News reporters are also known for confronting self-described “journalists,” who are granted press credentials, for not asking real questions of Davos attendees.

Calacanis described the WEF as “self-appointed illuminati” who “nobody asked to be in charge.”

“I think the public looks at Davos as the manifestation of these global elites who are lording over them some master plan — whether it’s real or not — that they’re not part of and that doesn’t take them into consideration, and that takes into consideration only their profits,” he said. 

Details about the YGL program are sparse, though economist Ernst Wolff notes that in the school’s earlier years, the members of each year’s class would meet up at “irregular intervals” in Davos. They would also participate in a ten-day “executive training program” at Harvard Business School. Wolff believes that class members build contacts throughout the program which they rely on to then build their careers.

These contacts are powerful; the WEF’s Board of Trustees includes European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde, Jordan’s Queen Rania and BlackRock CEO Larry Fink, who manages $9 trillion of the world’s wealth, to name a few. Should a YGL member pursue a position of power, they do so with most of the world’s power behind them. Furthermore, YGL members who toe the globalist line can find themselves protected by near-unlimited influence and wealth should they come under fire for politically unpopular decisions such as harsh lockdowns.

RAIR Foundation’s Michael Lord explains that according to Wolff, “democracy as we knew it has been silently cancelled, and that although the appearance of democratic processes is being maintained in our countries, the fact is that an examination of how governance around the world works today shows that an elite of super-wealthy and powerful individuals effectively control everything that goes on in politics, as has been especially evident in relation to the pandemic response.”