There’s a latest and very exclusive app for the world’s wealthiest people — and this plebeian Post reporter scored a sneak peek.
Myria has only just launched, however it’s already becoming vital for the prosperous, doubling as a personal concierge service and a web based social club for the 1%.
Annual, invite-only membership costs a cool $30,000 — greater than your entire amount in my sad and sorry savings account. Nonetheless, feeling generous, founder Rey Flemings — who’s been hailed as one in all the “premier fixers for the worldwide elite” — decided to grant me temporary access to the app to be able to see what life is like for the ludicrously loaded.
“Everybody on Myria is incredibly successful and globally significant,” Flemings, 50, told The Post on Friday. “Our average member net price is about $600 million.”
Myria currently boasts lower than 100 members, but they’re a who’s-who of Silicon Valley power players, as I quickly discovered.
Members — who can’t be named for privacy reasons — include the founders and CEOs of household name corporations, in addition to baby-faced tech tycoons who’ve sold off their startups for mind-boggling 10-figure sums. There are also celebrities, sports stars and royals.
Myria is there to cater to their every whim — in the event that they can pass “net price verification” and a vetting interview conducted by the “nominations team.”
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Myria essentially acts as a web based little black book, connecting members with vendors so elite they don’t advertise to odd people — and even the ordinarily wealthy.
‘Even with all the cash on the earth, access to things could be very, very hard … Wealthy people need to be cool, and funky people need to be wealthy. We’re a platform to make that exchange occur.’
Myria founder Rey Flemings
As an example, if a user desires to travel to Italy, they will be attached with an off-market mansion that’s unavailable to the hoi polloi. In case you haven’t heard, Airbnb is just for the poors.
Myria members are also capable of rating front-row seats at sports games and coveted tables at essentially the most in-demand restaurants. There’s no coping with the stress of StubHub and OpenTable like regular riff-raff. (Flemings is famously the go-to-guy if you happen to want impossible-to-get-tickets to Beyoncé, the Super Bowl, “Saturday Night Live” and the Oscars, not to say Met Gala red carpet access.)
On the app, there’s also a “chat” tab allowing users to speak directly with Myria staff in the event that they’re in a pinch. While browsing with Flemings, I noted one minted member’s message about obtaining a surf instructor and a security guard for a vacation in Costa Rica.
One other intrepid millionaire asked for help securing luxe last-minute lodgings for themselves and an entourage for a spontaneous trip to Machu Picchu. As you do.
Meanwhile, a “community” tab allows uber-elite users to attach and peruse each other’s profiles.
“As a community, they get to ask one another to things,” Flemings — who “grew up poor” in Memphis, Tennessee, and is now based in Beverly Hills, Calif. — explains. “Like, ‘Hey, I’m having a giant banquet on Sept. 6’ or ‘I actually have extra seats on my plane going from Recent York to LA on this day, does anybody want to hitch?’ There’s all types of ideas that people are exploring there.”
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‘Luxury is actually an idea for poor people to aspire to… Once you may afford each thing, the thing becomes deemphasized. People begin to transition and begin to seek out meaning not in things but in experience.‘
Rey Flemings on why ultra-rich Myria users don’t covet material possessions.
Flemings once worked within the music biz, where he hobnobbed with big names corresponding to Justin Timberlake. He built up a Rolodex of coveted contacts which he later began sharing with tech founder friends.
Soon, he began serving as a fixer, helping hook up Fortune 500 CEOs and Forbes-listed billionaires with the most well liked names in the humanities, food and fashion scenes.
When a wealthy client once asked in the event that they could go to the Oscars, Flemings was reportedly capable of procure a pair of tickets within the ninth row, right next to Amazon kingpin Jeff Bezos. It took him lower than 24 hours to accomplish that.
Now, Flemings has funneled all of his expertise into Myria.
“Even with all the cash on the earth, access to things could be very, very hard,” he told The Post. “Wealthy people need to be cool, and funky people need to be wealthy. We’re a platform to make that exchange occur.”
While some members do need to connect with sports stars and sexy models to spice up their social standing, Flemings says others are searching for luxury travel recommendations or details about top doctors, surgeons and wellness experts.
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Most of the time, Myria members are all for experiences, versus objects.
“Luxury is actually an idea for poor people to aspire to,” Flemings told The Post, saying his clients don’t covet cars or watches because their material possessions are so abundant that they’ve develop into almost meaningless.
“Once you may afford each thing, the thing becomes deemphasized” he explained. “People begin to transition and begin to seek out meaning not in things but in experience.“
So, while an odd person (like this lowly journalist) might purchase a print of a painting to hold of their home, a frequently wealthy person might buy the unique artwork.
However the Myria member? They’re sipping effective wine and taking a personal painting class — with the actual artist on an island that’s so private and exclusive you’ve never even heard of it.
![lemings once worked in the music biz, where he hobnobbed with big names such as Justin Timberlake. He built up a Rolodex of coveted contacts which he later began sharing with tech founder friends.](https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/NYPICHPDPICT000026760264.jpg?w=753)
Flemings normally works with individuals price at the least $30 million — meaning they’re not only the 1%, they’re the top 0.003%.
And when you don’t necessarily need that eye-watering sum to give you the chance to hitch Myria, there’s still an exhaustive application and approval process.
Aspiring members must participate in a live interview and undergo a bank style KYC (Know Your Customer) check. It also helps if you happen to’re referred by a Myria member.
All of it makes other elite apps — like Raya, and brick-and-mortar social clubs, such Soho House — appear to be the province of peasants.
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Currently, there’s a 500-person waitlist to hitch the app, and Flemings is hoping to have 1,000 members on Myria by the top of 2024.
“The variety of ultra-wealthy people is doubling over the following three years,” the founder declared. “And there’s also this wealth transfer from the boomers to their children — the biggest wealth transfer in history. Those two things are combining to blow up the variety of wealthy people”
Due to this fact, competition for a coveted spot on Myria is just prone to get more intense.
It’s little wonder I’ve already been booted off.