Well maybe it was the reverse :) Silicon Valley producers had many consultants in Silicon Valley. And there was even a podcast I saw on YouTube where a former

Well maybe it was the reverse :) Silicon Valley producers had many consultants in Silicon Valley. And there was even a podcast I saw on YouTube where a former YC company founder worked for Silicon Valley after his startup shutdown. He moved down to LA as far as I remember. Oh yeah here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kk03M3XfVY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kk03M3XfVY https://blog.ycombinator.com/the-technical-advisor-for-silicon-valley-on-hbo-ed-mcmanus/ https://blog.ycombinator.com/the-technical-advisor-for-silic... Or they could have just read PG's blog. The writers got a lot of stuff right so I wouldn't doubt it. Though I guess I was surprised there was no "ycombinator" in the show. There was Erlich and his hacker house / accelerator, who doesn't seem a lot like PG :)