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I wrote a parody of Theranos as a TV pilot that is increasingly becoming true: http://www.pricks.com/ http://www.pricks.com/ (I'm sharing this here because the

I wrote a parody of Theranos as a TV pilot that is increasingly becoming true: http://www.pricks.com/ http://www.pricks.com/ (I'm sharing this here because the Hacker News community seemed to enjoy my Season 3 premiere of Silicon Valley [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10179894 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10179894], but apologies if others feel it detracts from the discussion.)

Cyberdog 11y ago
Well, if nothing else, congrats on acquiring that domain name.
- danso 11y ago
  It definitely wins my award for Most Esoteric, Timely Use of a Six-Letter .com Domain Name that Can Be Found in an English Dictionary.
nikcub 11y ago
Great stuff Blake. I can imagine an entire episode dedicated to trying to get Pricks onto Product Hunt. The double entendre's and puns write themselves.
randycupertino 11y ago
I was just thinking that someone needs to write a novelization of this Theranos nonsense & turn it into a screenplay and voilà:- Silicon Valley's "Wolf of Wall Street" or the next "The Social Network" ... I'm sure someone is already writing it up.
- interesting_att 11y ago
  I thought Arrested Development has been parodying the tech scene well. Seasons 1-3, which aired during the Bush era, showed the lives of incompetent and corrupt property developers + military contractors. Now the main running gag is a BS non-existent app.
  - akhilcacharya 11y ago
    Don't forget what Parks and Rec did in it's last season. We've seen a lot of great comedy about tech recently.
- akhilcacharya 11y ago
  To be honest, I'm just waiting for the company to collapse for Aaron Sorkin to start writing a screenplay about it. I'm thinking JLaw for Holmes. Like a Joy that doesn't suck and ends on a different note.
mrbonner 11y ago
Hey. Are you the original dev for firefox?
- danso 11y ago
  Via the about page: http://www.pricks.com/about http://www.pricks.com/about > Blake "Blade" Ross has been working in tech since he began programming for Netscape at 14. When he was 17, he left Netscape to start the Firefox web browser with some colleagues. After Firefox, Blake attended Stanford for a year and then went on leave to build a new company. In 2007, Facebook purchased that company as its first ever acquisition. Blake spent 6 years as a Director of Product at Facebook. He has been featured a number of times for his work in tech, including on the cover of Wired and Spectrum magazines, and in the 2013 Forbes 30 under 30 list. Like Holmes, Ross also ditched Stanford after a year to start a company :)
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Cyberdog 11y ago

Well, if nothing else, congrats on acquiring that domain name.

danso 11y ago
It definitely wins my award for Most Esoteric, Timely Use of a Six-Letter .com Domain Name that Can Be Found in an English Dictionary.

nikcub 11y ago

Great stuff Blake. I can imagine an entire episode dedicated to trying to get Pricks onto Product Hunt. The double entendre's and puns write themselves.

randycupertino 11y ago

I was just thinking that someone needs to write a novelization of this Theranos nonsense & turn it into a screenplay and voilà:- Silicon Valley's "Wolf of Wall Street" or the next "The Social Network" ... I'm sure someone is already writing it up.

interesting_att 11y ago
I thought Arrested Development has been parodying the tech scene well. Seasons 1-3, which aired during the Bush era, showed the lives of incompetent and corrupt property developers + military contractors. Now the main running gag is a BS non-existent app.
- akhilcacharya 11y ago
  Don't forget what Parks and Rec did in it's last season. We've seen a lot of great comedy about tech recently.
akhilcacharya 11y ago
To be honest, I'm just waiting for the company to collapse for Aaron Sorkin to start writing a screenplay about it. I'm thinking JLaw for Holmes. Like a Joy that doesn't suck and ends on a different note.

mrbonner 11y ago

Hey. Are you the original dev for firefox?

danso 11y ago
Via the about page: http://www.pricks.com/about http://www.pricks.com/about > Blake "Blade" Ross has been working in tech since he began programming for Netscape at 14. When he was 17, he left Netscape to start the Firefox web browser with some colleagues. After Firefox, Blake attended Stanford for a year and then went on leave to build a new company. In 2007, Facebook purchased that company as its first ever acquisition. Blake spent 6 years as a Director of Product at Facebook. He has been featured a number of times for his work in tech, including on the cover of Wired and Spectrum magazines, and in the 2013 Forbes 30 under 30 list. Like Holmes, Ross also ditched Stanford after a year to start a company :)

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