Gavin Belson

The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power

by Max Chafkin  · 14 Sep 2021  · 524pp  · 130,909 words

. The show’s writers had been unsparing with other tech figures, incorporating aspects of the Google founders and Oracle’s Larry Ellison into the villainous Gavin Belson—a greedy big tech executive with a persecution complex and full-time spiritual adviser—and savagely mocking the investor and NBA team owner Mark Cuban

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an eighteen-year-old. The following year, HBO’s Silicon Valley dedicated an entire episode to the subject, having the show’s evil corporate character, Gavin Belson, receive transfusions from a strapping “blood boy”—or as Belson described him, “my transfusion associate.” (The actor who’d played the Thiel character had died

Blank Space: A Cultural History of the Twenty-First Century

by W. David Marx  · 18 Nov 2025  · 642pp  · 142,332 words

societal issues, as its business models seemingly worked against the public’s best interests. * * * In an episode of HBO comedy series Silicon Valley, fictional CEO Gavin Belson laments, “I don’t want to live in a world where someone else makes the world a better place—better than we do.” By the

Billion Dollar Loser: The Epic Rise and Spectacular Fall of Adam Neumann and WeWork

by Reeves Wiedeman  · 19 Oct 2020  · 303pp  · 100,516 words

had encouraged them to pursue freely before. Berrent referenced HBO’s Silicon Valley, which was then in its second season. The show’s villain was Gavin Belson, an unfeeling business titan running a company called Hooli, who was constantly followed around by a spiritual guru and had recently laid claim to a

The Victory Machine: The Making and Unmaking of the Warriors Dynasty

by Ethan Sherwood Strauss  · 13 Apr 2020  · 211pp  · 67,975 words

that Lacob is more machine than man, that he cannot fathom the utility of social graces, that he is a parody of the already parodic Gavin Belson of HBO’s Silicon Valley. The other billionaires in the building likely aren’t in a joking mood. We are at the Wynn casino in

The Science and Technology of Growing Young: An Insider's Guide to the Breakthroughs That Will Dramatically Extend Our Lifespan . . . And What You Can Do Right Now

by Sergey Young  · 23 Aug 2021  · 326pp  · 88,968 words

aren’t even the strangest. If you are a fan of the HBO series Silicon Valley, you may remember a 2017 episode wherein antagonist billionaire Gavin Belson receives a blood transfusion from a strapping young man, right in the middle of a business presentation. This was a slightly tongue-in-cheek look