Mike Judge's "Silicon Valley" (HBO Show)

yeah, that's right.

i believe he was dead before they started airing the show.

"I don't want to live in a world where someone else makes the world a better place better than we do" was perfect

this episode was written by clay tarver, the guitarist from Chavez(!) he also co-wrote 'joy ride' with jj abrams, what a world, what a country

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/04/16/is-slack-really-worth-2-8-billion-a-conversation-with-stewart-butterfield

Erlich Bachman really is one of the best comedy character creations in TV in a long, long time.

I can't get enough depictions of horrificly awkward tech parties. Kid Rock last series and the SF Giants ballpark this time - so cringey

Do any of you guys ~do~ tech? Is it really this embarrassing? Bcz Gawker says yes.

I'm only peripherally aware of it (living where I do) but afaict, yes

I have witnessed some pretty ridiculous parties and listened to some insanely ridiculous rhetoric/speechifying

Having been through a few hardware startups, I think my experience hasn't been as nuts as these pure software companies, but it's still pretty ridiculous.

a+ cliffhanger

Was pretty active in startups and party crashing during the original dot com era but I've steered clear of the current douchebag/brogrammer wave. I hope they all fail miserably.

boo.com parties were the best/most insane

Erlich Bachman really is one of the best comedy character creations in TV in a long, long time.

this.

investor guy who was throwing party for pied piper at the start was james from Spin City, who I haven't seen in anything since Spin City.

Love this show to death. Found it amusing that when I was in SF this weekend for first time in a decade, how many billboards were specifically aimed at software programmers and app producers.

drive down 101 to san jose and thats about all they are

yeah I was gonna say things reach really ludicrous proportion along the 101

this show is so great, last ep was incredible

my uncle is a cfo for a venture capital firm in SF and at 52 is the old man in the building, i've been meaning to ask him if he's seen this

a friend if mine is launching an app, and he is sooooo this show

haha shots fired @ Mark Cuban

ROI

Jesus Christ, this show is so, so funny.
Died at Jared deciding he finds the BRO app "sticky" - the only people ever to use the word bro with him were 'assailants'
Died at "Bros disclose."
Died at the angry VC guys recounting Erlich's previous insults ("You called me a choad-guzzling Fuck Toilet.") then "At least I have the decency to shave my balls. We live in a society."

God, there are like 10 big belly laughs per episode, which is more than any other show for a long time for me

omg @ the billionaires/Jews in Nazi Germany analogy (this was based on a real thing someone said, yeah? I can't recall who)

really killin it this season. Jared is such a classic Mike Judge character, loved the Julia Roberts movie refs bit

venture capital dude tom perkins in the wsj: "Writing from the epicenter of progressive thought, San Francisco, I would call attention to the parallels of fascist Nazi Germany to its war on the "one percent", namely its Jews, to the progressive war on the American one percent, namely the "rich"."

ah yes

Jared really is a great character.

is the new rich guy (was it Russ Hanneman?) based one someone? all i could think of was maybe Tom from myspace.

my thought was MacAfee

he's a funny character but boy is he annoying. i hope he's not around too much. it's hard to take. tho i enjoyed his subtle dissing of erlich.

omg i had no idea the nazi thing was based on a real statement jfc

Shit, wait, have there been 3 episodes in the States? We just had Episode 2 on Sky Atlantic in the UK last night

yes ep 3 aired on Sunday

I love how the new rich guy is working so hard to be Tom Ford.

Radio On Internet is partially Mark Cuban, who made his fortune selling broadcast.com to Yahoo and hasn't exactly expanded his fortune by leaps and bounds in the intervening years. Also kind of a douchebag.

lol

In 2005, Cuban invested in Brondell Inc., a San Francisco startup making a high-tech toilet seat called a Swash that works like a bidet but mounts on a standard toilet.[

http://ballislife.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/CubanCover.jpg

the d

Can't completely hate him because of the Mavericks, tho

i also get dan bilzeran vibes from dude

and a hint of scorpio from simpsons

if i'm just now introducing you to dan bilzeran...i'm sorry

*bilzerian

ugghh i hate for reminding me about dan bilzerian. garbageperson for REAL

never heard of him before thx deej

oh THAT guy. Yeah, he's just abysmal.

He has calf implants!

I love Jared. "I'm putting on HATS!"

Mariachi band interruption into credits at the end of ep2 was pretty amazing.

omg that was so great, how it just seems like credits music for a few seconds but then it winds up actually being part of the scene

Jared "celebrated"

f'n amazing: https://medium.com/@chrismessina/the-full-stack-employee-ed0db089f0a1

fantastic episode. this season is >>> so far

Cosigned. New season is the best.