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Lila MacLellan

RARE PHOTOS: The star studded mountaintop utopia that wasn t - The Real Truth

Photos of Chris Blackwell, Sir Martin Sorrell, Reed Hastings, Tim Ferriss, Beth Comstock, Blake Mycoskie, and Richard Branson in a red frame. (Credit: LEFT TO RIGHT: DAVE BENETT—GETTY IMAGES; PA IMAGES/REUTERS; ERNESTO S. RUSCIO—GETTY IMAGES; STEPHEN OLKER—GETTY IMAGES; BRAD BARKET—GETTY IMAGES; MARIO ANZUONI—REUTERS; JOHN LAMPARSKI—GETTY IMAGES)

Ten years ago, the twentysomething founders of Summit Series, a glitzy, exclusive ideas and wellness conference for tech types and celebrities, pulled off an objectively incredible feat: They bought a $40 million ski mountain.

Those founders—Elliott Bisnow, Brett Leve, Jeff Rosenthal, and Jeremy Schwartz—teamed up with venture capitalists Greg Mauro and Rob Hutter to purchase a 9,000-foot hill tucked away in Ogden Valley, just an hour from Salt Lake City: Powder Mountain.

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