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Silicon Valley: Season 3 Tease (HBO)
- kozukumi 11y agoOh man I can't wait. I love this show. It makes me laugh and cry with how accurate SV is.
- minimaxir 11y agoContext if you forgot the end of season 2, since it is relevant to the trailer: SPOILERS Richard Hendricks was ousted as CEO of Pied Piper by the board. (the website has a great joke in the team roster regarding that event: http://www.piedpiper.com/ http://www.piedpiper.com/)
- alex_anglin 11y agoIs Carla still working with Pied Piper though? I thought she quit with the rest of the new hires. My suspicion is that they'll find a way to keep her character in the show either way.
- rickdale 11y agoThats funny. I remember checking out this site a long time ago. They took away the detail that Erlich also spent some time at Oberlin...
- dineshp2 11y agoIt's interesting how this show gives a glimpse of what life in Silicon Valley as a founder is like. Obviously it's by no means an accurate representation but it is in some ways a source of inspiration for people working on their startups. In the show Hooli claims ownership of the underlying IP since Richard worked on Pied Piper during Hooli time and ran some tests on Hooli hardware. How likely is such a scenario to actually occur? I know it's technically possible, but I am not aware of any such high profile case.
- minimaxir 11y agoAs a counterpoint to the Silicon Valley show accuracy, I recently marathoned Betas, which is an Amazon original series which attempted to add comedy to Silicon Valley culture (and actually predates the HBO show). The problem is that it played the culture completely straight. The issues with the show can be summed up in one scene: https://twitter.com/minimaxir/status/682261750222209024 https://twitter.com/minimaxir/status/682261750222209024
- sweezyjeezy 11y agoWait I don't understand, how is that playing it straight? Is it supposed to be accurate?
- minimaxir 11y agoThe scene I linked to is done completely unironically.
- awl130 11y agojust wow. it is played unironically, but so self-unaware that it then becomes funny, which must be enjoyed in an ironic manner. so: ``` def change_tone tone tone = ironic change_tone tone end ``` #change_tone :unironic #SystemStackError
- wale 11y agoHow technically possible? cuz I also don't see how likely such a case could even occur or the whole idea of it occurring to start with
- selleck 11y agoSV seems to be such a target rich environment, I can imagine this show going on for years.
- jonsmit 11y agoI think it's likely that the tech industry downturn will make the show less funny. Like that oil show. But if anyone could do it Mike Judge can - that guy is a genius
- frik 11y agoI like this show, much better, realistic but funny and it does a better PR for the tech sector than Big Bang Theory.
- sharkweek 11y agoSo funny story - Pied Piper fooled our crawlbots into thinking it was a real company. Not only that, but it fooled our first line of human research and only got caught when someone who had seen the show before we pushed the update to our platform saw the name and thought "huh... I don't think that's actually a real company." Our bots index all of their sources as well, and they had fake fundraising press releases and the wonderful Pied Piper website listed as a legit source to warrant including this company in their scrape. We kept it in our platform as an easter egg for a while.
- return0 11y agoAs an outsider: In what ways is the show in-accurate? [i ask for innaccuracies as i think they will be fewer than "accuracies"]
- asdfzxc 11y agoMy take is, that all the things that go wrong for the Pied Piper guys is based on real life. The parts where they come out on top are inaccurate.
- ojbyrne 11y agoThat's a pretty broad question. Answer: Things that are deadly serious in the real world are played for laughs, and obviously there's some exaggeration involved, though not as much as an outsider would think.