There is a new and very Exclusive app for the world’s richest people, and this commoner Post reporter got a sneak peek.
Myria has only just launched, but it’s already a must-have for the filthy rich, functioning as a private concierge service and online social club for the 1%.
Annual membership costs a whopping $30,000, more than the entire amount in my sad and pitiful savings account. Feeling generous though, founder Rey Flemings, hailed as one of the “world’s elite top fixers”, decided to grant me temporary access to the app to see what life is like for the ridiculously overburdened.
“Everyone at Myria is incredibly successful and globally significant,” Flemings, 50, told The Post on Friday. “The average net worth of our members is about $600 million.”
Myria currently has fewer than 100 members, but they are a who’s who of Silicon Valley power players, as I quickly found out.
The members, who cannot be named for privacy reasons, include the founders and CEOs of big-name companies, as well as baby-faced tech moguls who have sold their startups for mind-blowing 10-figure sums. There are also celebrities, sports stars and royalty.
Myria is there to satisfy your every whim.
Rey Flemings, a wealthy fixer, is the brainchild behind Myria, an exclusive app for some of the world’s richest people. There is a waiting list of 500 people to join the app, but it hopes to have 1,000 members by the end of 2024. Rey Flemings/Myria
There is also a “chat” tab that allows users to communicate directly with Myria staff if they are in a bind. An example mockup is shown. King Flemings/Myria
Essentially, Myria acts like a little black book online, connecting members with providers so elite that they don’t advertise to ordinary people, even the ordinarily wealthy.
‘Even with all the money in the world, access to things is very, very difficult… Rich people want to be cool, and cool people want to be rich. We are a platform to make that exchange a reality.”
King Flemings, founder of Myria
For example, if a user wants to travel to Italy, they can be connected to an off-market mansion that is not available for hoi polloi. In case you haven’t heard, Airbnb is just for poor.
Myria members can also get front row seats at sports games and coveted tables at the most sought after restaurants. You can’t deal with the stress of StubHub and OpenTable like the normal riffraff. (Flemings is famous for being the go-to person for impossible-to-get tickets to Beyoncé, the Super Bowl, “Saturday Night Live” and the Oscars, not to mention access to the Met Gala red carpet.)
In the app, there is also a “chat” tab that allows users to communicate directly with Myria staff if they are in a bind. While surfing with Flemings, I noticed a coined member’s post about getting a surf instructor and security guard for a Costa Rica vacation.
Another intrepid millionaire asked for help finding last-minute luxury accommodations for himself and an entourage for a spontaneous trip to Machu Picchu. Like you do.
Meanwhile, a “community” tab allows elite users to connect and browse each other’s profiles.
“As a community, you can invite each other to do things,” explains Flemings, who “grew up poor” in Memphis, Tennessee, and now resides in Beverly Hills, California. “Like, ‘Hey, I’m having a big dinner on September 6th,’ or ‘I have extra seats on my plane from New York to LA that day, anyone want to join?’ There are all kinds of ideas that people are exploring there.”
A “community” tab allows elite users to connect and browse each other’s profiles. An example mockup is shown. King Flemings/Myria
‘Luxury is really a concept to which the poor aspire…Once you can afford everything, the stuff loses importance. People begin to make the transition and begin to find meaning not in things but in experience.‘
Rey Flemings explains why the ultra-rich users of Myria do not covet material possessions.
Flemings once worked in the music business, rubbing shoulders with big names like Justin Timberlake. He created a Rolodex of coveted contacts that he then began sharing with fellow tech founders.
Soon, he began serving as a go-between for the filthy rich, helping connect Fortune 500 CEOs and Forbes-listed billionaires with the hottest names in the arts, food and fashion scenes.
When a wealthy client once asked if he could go to the Oscars, Flemings was able to snag a pair of tickets in the ninth row, right next to Amazon kingpin Jeff Bezos. It took him less than 24 hours to do it.
Now, Flemings has channeled all of his experience into Myria.
“Even with all the money in the world, access to things is very, very difficult,” he told The Post. “Rich people want to be cool and cool people want to be rich. We are a platform to make that exchange a reality.”
While some members want to connect with sports stars and sexy models to boost their social standing, Flemings says others are looking for luxury travel recommendations or information on the best doctors, surgeons and wellness experts.
Flemings appears front and center with several high-flying friends. For more than a decade, she has helped the filthy rich, connecting them with the hottest names in the fields of fashion, food, and entertainment. Flemings is said to be the go-to person for impossible-to-get tickets to Beyoncé, the Super Bowl, “Saturday Night Live” and the Oscars, not to mention access to the Met Gala red carpet. King Flemings/Myria
Most of the time, Myria members are interested in experiences, rather than items.
“Luxury is really a concept that the poor aspire to,” Flemings told The Post, saying his clients don’t covet cars or watches because their material possessions are so plentiful they’re almost meaningless.
“Once you can afford everything, the stuff loses importance,” he explained. “People begin to make the transition and begin to find meaning not in things but in experience.“
Thus, while an ordinary person (such as this humble journalist) could buy a copy of a painting to hang in his home, a normally wealthy person could buy the original work of art.
But the member of Myria? They’re drinking wine and taking a private painting class with the actual artist on an island that’s so private and exclusive you’ve never even heard of it.
Flemings once worked in the music business, rubbing shoulders with big names like Justin Timberlake. He created a Rolodex of coveted contacts that he then began sharing with fellow tech founders. King Flemings/Myria
Flemings typically works with people worth at least $30 million, which means they’re not just the top 1%, but the top 0.003%.
And while you don’t necessarily need that huge sum to be able to join Myria, there is still a thorough application and approval process.
Aspiring members must participate in a live interview and undergo a bank-style KYC (Know Your Customer) verification. It also helps to be recommended by a Myria member.
All of this makes other elite apps (like Raya and traditional social clubs like Soho House) look like they’re owned by peasants.
Most of the time, Myria users are interested in experiences, rather than objects. King Flemings/Myria
There is currently a waiting list of 500 people to join the app and Flemings hopes to have 1,000 members in Myria by the end of 2024.
“The number of ultra-rich people will double in the next three years,” the founder declared. “And then there is this transfer of wealth from boomers to their children – the largest wealth transfer in history. Those two things are combining to make the number of rich people explode.”
Therefore, the competition for a coveted spot in Myria is likely to become more intense.
No wonder I’ve already been kicked out.
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