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It's amazingly bad timing that Silicon Valley ended before NFTs, OpenAI, WFH, and Musk's purchase of Twitter.

ethbr1 3y ago
It'd be too on the nose, now. Ridiculous reality isn't funny. Although it definitely feels like there's a Silicon Valley II thread brewing with AI startups.
- jedberg 3y ago
  It was too on the nose the first time. When it was airing I was raising VC funds, and it was basically a documentary. I would laugh every time someone offered me a Fiji water at a VC office.
  - ethbr1 3y ago
    Gotta get the water first. "What if I told you, there was an app..."
  - rurp 3y ago
    Did you take the Erlich approach of being as insulting as possible to VCs?
- tomjakubowski 3y ago
  The writers had to throw away a great real-life anecdote because it'd be "too hacky" for the show! [Astro Teller] ended the meeting by standing up in a huff, but his attempt at a dramatic exit was marred by the fact that he was wearing Rollerblades. He wobbled to the door in silence. “Then there was this awkward moment of him fumbling with his I.D. badge, trying to get the door to open,” [writer Carrie] Kemper said. “It felt like it lasted an hour. We were all trying not to laugh. Even while it was happening, I knew we were all thinking the same thing: Can we use this?” In the end, the joke was deemed “too hacky to use on the show.” https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/how-silicon-valley-nails-silicon-valley https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/how-silicon-v...
notatoad 3y ago
it's amazing how well it holds up. most of the jokes they're making would work perfectly fine if you swapped in whatever the overhyped tech fad of the day is.
- legitster 3y ago
  I think the big difference is we are seeing a closing of the window on the VC days. We're no longer in the low inflation, low interest-rate environment that was the primordial soup for startups. So while I think the show has held up amazingly well (didn't love the way it ended), I think in 10-15 years we are going to look back at the period it represents pretty nostalgically.

It'd be too on the nose, now. Ridiculous reality isn't funny. Although it definitely feels like there's a Silicon Valley II thread brewing with AI startups.

jedberg 3y ago
It was too on the nose the first time. When it was airing I was raising VC funds, and it was basically a documentary. I would laugh every time someone offered me a Fiji water at a VC office.
- ethbr1 3y ago
  Gotta get the water first. "What if I told you, there was an app..."
- rurp 3y ago
  Did you take the Erlich approach of being as insulting as possible to VCs?
tomjakubowski 3y ago
The writers had to throw away a great real-life anecdote because it'd be "too hacky" for the show! [Astro Teller] ended the meeting by standing up in a huff, but his attempt at a dramatic exit was marred by the fact that he was wearing Rollerblades. He wobbled to the door in silence. “Then there was this awkward moment of him fumbling with his I.D. badge, trying to get the door to open,” [writer Carrie] Kemper said. “It felt like it lasted an hour. We were all trying not to laugh. Even while it was happening, I knew we were all thinking the same thing: Can we use this?” In the end, the joke was deemed “too hacky to use on the show.” https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/how-silicon-valley-nails-silicon-valley https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/how-silicon-v...

notatoad 3y ago

it's amazing how well it holds up. most of the jokes they're making would work perfectly fine if you swapped in whatever the overhyped tech fad of the day is.

legitster 3y ago
I think the big difference is we are seeing a closing of the window on the VC days. We're no longer in the low inflation, low interest-rate environment that was the primordial soup for startups. So while I think the show has held up amazingly well (didn't love the way it ended), I think in 10-15 years we are going to look back at the period it represents pretty nostalgically.