Key Quote : "College has become a cruel expensive joke on the poor and the middle class that benefits only the perpetrators of it. During its first season, Silicon Valley was heavily criticized for unequal gender representation, which happened to coincide with Pao suing her venture firm employer for sexual discrimination.
But the plurality of points must be apportioned to Marissa Mayer , the Yahoo CEO who enunciates in a similar alien voice, makes cutthroat decisions based on metrics, and has difficulty holding eye contact with subordinates.
And so, a majority of this pie turns Yahoo hex purple in her honor. Key Quote : "This exchange is now over. Thank you. But then he allowed his demise at Twitter to metastasize into plot fodder this season. Jack Barker is undoubtedly an amalgam of the many sinister tech henchmen who replaced founders — a few bytes of John Sculley , the Pepsi exec who became CEO of Apple after Steve Jobs was ejected, and a whole lotta Steve Ballmer , the former Microsoft CEO who was the quintessential salesman without product vision.
A bit of repressed Google lore: the search giant once shipped an enterprise search server dubbed the Google Search Appliance. It was a box. And cha-ching , before his stint at Twitter, Costolo worked at Google for two years.
Bachman started the incubator Hacker Hostel, seemingly based on the real hacker hostel which was notably created by two women. His love of the ganja is reminiscent of party boy Sean Parker , the cofounder of Napster and former president of Facebook, who has made large investments in pot legalization. But for our reality-blurring purposes, the most provocative moment for this character occurred outside the show.
At an awards show actually called The Crunchies, emcee T. The satire was widely rebuked , perhaps because the fiction was too real. Key Quote : "If you're not an asshole, it creates this kind of asshole vacuum, and that void is filled by other assholes.
Others have apparently noticed the resemblance:. But the pedigree of another figure looms: Jessica Verrilli aka jess , who checks off two boxes — running corporate development at Twitter and a stint at Google Ventures. Lauren Goode , a reporter at Recode, was also in the running, but took herself out of contention and surrendered her delegates to Quinn:. Dave, like Bachman, is loud, opinionated, hilariously unfashionable, and at times, wildly inappropriate.
After two miserable years, he quit his job in the legal world and started his own business, an online marketplace for home services. Unlike a lot of ambitious startup founders who want to get rich and conquer the world, Dave started his business for one reason: freedom.
Before leaving his job and starting his business, Dave had a conversation with his co-founder that outlined his new view on life:. As his business grew into seven figures, Dave moved out of his home office in and rented a 1, square foot vacancy in downtown San Francisco, the epicenter of the startup world. But Dave likes it that way, and it works. Privacy policy. Generic filters Hidden label. Hidden label. By: disco.
Business and tech news in 5 minutes or less. Thank you for subscribing. Your submission failed. Please try again! Unsubscribe whenever. Recent Posts. Electric truck maker Rivian gave its customers a much cooler …. Eccentric billionaire and angel investor Peter Gregory played by Christopher Evan Welch reminded us of a fellow member of the "three-comma club," Peter Thiel, cofounder of PayPal.
Gregory encouraged young genius geeks to drop out of college and start companies, which sounds a lot like the mission of the Thiel Fellowship. Laurie Bream played by Suzanne Cryer is awkward and ruthless as the cofounder of her own venture firm, Bream Hall.
Laurie is cutthroat, speaks very mechanically, and places huge value on metrics. Sound familiar? In a one-on-one she can't hold eye contact," like Laurie when she delivers bad news.
The show's creator Mike Judge said the character was inspired by "these super-intelligent people who think faster than they can talk" and denied any correlation to Mayer. Surprisingly, Costolo became a writing consultant on "Silicon Valley" after he left Twitter in , and he allowed his story to become plot-fodder for season three, according to Sorgatz. TJ Miller , who played the bombastic techie Erlich Bachman, left the series in Long before Erlich's unresolved disappearance, he sold his startup Aviato and bought a mansion in the Valley, which he turned into a tech incubator for entrepreneurs.
Erlich, a sandal-wearing visionary with a couple of loose screws, reminded us of tech billionaire and investor Sean Parker. Erlich was often seen smoking from a bong. In , actor Miller told TechCrunch that he based the character's delivery and demeanor on Binu Girija , the founder of Way.
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