Burning Man ticket sales have slowed for the first time since 2011. Here are the famous CEOs and billionaires who have attended in the past.

Not only has Musk taken more than one pilgrimage to Black Rock City, he's also gone on the record touting the annual festival as an integral part of Silicon Valley culture. 

"If you haven't been, you just don't get it," Musk told Recode in 2014.

As recently as 2022, Musk was posting about Burning Man on Twitter.

In 2012, at the urging of his friend and Facebook cofounder Dustin Moskowitz, Zuckerberg took a break from his busy schedule to fly to Burning Man for a day and make some grilled cheese sandwiches.

"Along with its other inhabitants, he helped pitch his own tent," Moskowitz, a regular Burning Man attendee, wrote in a 2013 Medium post. 

"I wanted him to experience the city and to experience gifting because I thought it would make him grow as a person and the world better off as a result; I believe that's exactly what happened, however marginally (he was already a pretty great person)," he added about Zuckerberg.

Before Holmes began serving her nine-year prison sentence, the disgraced biotech entrepreneur attended Burning Man.

In 2018, after it was discovered that Holmes was defrauding investors and she was indicted by a grand jury, the former Theranos CEO and her partner, Billy Evans, decided to take a trip to Burning Man.

While there, they reportedly torched an effigy for the failed — and fraudulent — blood-testing business before embarking on a six-month RV trip traveling the country. 

As early as 1999, Bezos was attending Burning Man, Forbes reported at the time. That's long before the event became the go-to party for younger CEOs.

Brin and Page have reportedly attended the event repeatedly over the years. In fact, in 1998, the very first Google Doodle was inspired by Burning Man.

In fact, Brin and Page's obsession with the festival led them to choose Eric Schmidt as Google's CEO in 2001.

"Eric was . . . the only one who went to Burning Man," Brin reportedly said in a 2002 interview. "We thought [that] was an important criterion."

One of the biggest sources of information about which tech executives go to Burning Man is Moskovitz, who cofounded Facebook.

His heartfelt 2013 Medium post listed peers who had been to the big event. 

His piece — no doubt controversial within the Burning Man community — argued that billionaires have a right to attend the festival, which he said was eye-opening to many of his friends. Those who denied their right to attend were promoting a culture of exclusivity, he argued.

Among the tech execs Moskovitz listed as festival attendees were Rosenstein, Zuckerberg, and the Winklevoss twins, who famously sued Zuckerberg over the origins of the social network.

Camp is a regular Burner, according to anthropologist Francis Jervis. When the two met at the festival in 2013, Jervis said it was Camp's 11th time attending.

"His first experience of the radical otherness of the Playa was in the time of the Hillbilly Freak Show, not the luxurious turnkey camps with which Silicon Valley is associated today," Jervis wrote.

Ohanian is now probably best known as the partner of tennis star Williams. But not too long ago, he was just another tech mogul wandering the desert in hopes of finding himself.

He reportedly attended Burning Man in 2014 but maybe won't be on the playa this year — he and Williams announced the birth of their second daughter last year.

Houston reportedly attended Burning Man in 2014. 

Dropbox has conducted layoffs this year in response to slowing business growth and the expansion of AI products — maybe a trip to the desert is just what the company's founder needs.

The 74-year-old billionaire hedge fund manager made an appearance at Burning Man in 2019, wearing a tie-dye coat and psychedelic bell-bottoms.

It seems like he had mixed feelings about his experience. He said the festival was like Woodstock with "better art" and "less good music."

The billionaire founder of venture capital firm Thrive Capital and younger brother of Jared Kushner was seen at Burning Man last year with his wife Karlie Kloss.

He made an appearance on the model's Instagram, holding hands with her in front of a giant fork sculpture.

Billionaire Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky first went to Burning Man in 2013 on an invitation by board member Chip Conley. 

"Burning Man is what life would be like if artists ruled the world," he reportedly said after attending.

Billionaires and CEOs aren't the only recognizable faces that have popped up at Burning Man in the past. It's hosted a number of fashion models, influencers, and heirs to business empires.

DJ Diplo and comedian Chris Rock were among the Burners who were stranded in the mud in 2023. Diplo documented their trek on social media before the pair used their star power to hitch a ride with a fan out of flooded conditions.

In previous years, the festival has been seen in a more glamorous light through the Instagram outfit pictures from Katy Perry, Paris Hilton, and Heidi Klum.