AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order
by Kai-Fu Lee · 14 Sep 2018 · 307pp · 88,180 words
do the legwork, but the tech companies tend to stay distant and aloof from these logistical details. They aspire to the mythology satirized in the HBO series Silicon Valley, that of a skeleton crew of hackers building a billion-dollar business without ever leaving their San Francisco loft. Chinese companies don’t have this
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Blank Space: A Cultural History of the Twenty-First Century
by W. David Marx · 18 Nov 2025 · 642pp · 142,332 words
century, the focus on the most influential individuals admittedly overrepresents the United States. Despite decades of globalization, American cultural dominance persists through Hollywood films, Silicon Valley platforms, streaming TV shows, and pop idols. There was also a notable decline in influence from previous cultural powerhouses: The UK’s dominance in pop music faded, as
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longer be seen as detached from 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
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Valley, season 2, episode 1, “Sand Hill Shuffle,” written by Clay Tarver, directed by Mike Judge, aired April 12, 2015, on HBO. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT “local, mobile, social”: Silicon Valley, season 1, episode 7, “Proof of Concept,” written by Clay Tarver, directed by Mike Judge, aired May 18, 2014, on
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, 144 Shkreli, Martin, 189, 256 Shu, Chen, 243 Shukert, Rachel, 21 Shultz, George, 187 Silicon Valley, 84, 89, 101–2, 127, 161–69, 232, 270 Silicon Valley (TV series), 167 Silk Road, 235 Silverman, Sarah, 22, 24 Simmons, Laurie, 110 Simmons, Russell, 29–30, 157 Simon, Paul, 109 Simple Life, The (TV series), 44
Billionaire, Nerd, Savior, King: Bill Gates and His Quest to Shape Our World
by Anupreeta Das · 12 Aug 2024 · 315pp · 115,894 words
a little nerdy, and a little bit smart, so I can relate to it, and I was thrilled when I got the chance.” In the HBO show Silicon Valley, a tech satire that ran from 2014 to 2019 and both parodied and idealized modern nerd culture, the protagonist, Richard Hendricks—portrayed as a skinny
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Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys' Club of Silicon Valley
by Emily Chang · 6 Feb 2018 · 334pp · 104,382 words
seemed a little shell-shocked by the dramatic turns his life had taken, looking a bit like Richard Hendricks, the perpetually bewildered main character on HBO’s Silicon Valley. Damore told me the reaction to his memo both internally and externally was deeply unfair. The public reaction, he said, required that he be
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homes are spaces and places habitable only by a very specific type of person, captured in the hit movie The Social Network and the popular TV series Silicon Valley. Those young men have achieved great things—witness Facebook, Google, and Apple. But just because those companies were successful doesn’t mean the model isn
The Optimist: Sam Altman, OpenAI, and the Race to Invent the Future
by Keach Hagey · 19 May 2025 · 439pp · 125,379 words
was just beginning to take off, and there seemed to be something lucky about having double-os: Facebook, Google, and Yahoo! (and eventually, in HBO’s satirical Silicon Valley, the fictional Hooli). They kicked around a bunch of names and settled on one that sounded like an extension of its closest, indispensable partner
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to older patients for $8,000 a pop, helped fuel the meme that he was an “internet vampire,” a caricature that solidified after the HBO satire Silicon Valley portrayed a Thiel-like CEO taking a meeting while hooked up to his younger “transfusion associate.” (Even if Thiel did not kick the tires at
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tech bros; “women in tech” Shazeer, Noam, 270–71 Shear, Emmett, 76, 81–82, 157, 293–94 Shelley v. Kraemer, 26 Sikka, Vishal, 197, 236 Silicon Valley (TV show), 101, 258–59 Silicon Valley, 2–8, 72–73, 258 “add a zero” ethos of, 3–4, 272 Bay 101 cardroom, San Jose, 57 belief
But What if We're Wrong? Thinking About the Present as if It Were the Past
by Chuck Klosterman · 6 Jun 2016 · 281pp · 78,317 words
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Squeezed: Why Our Families Can't Afford America
by Alissa Quart · 25 Jun 2018 · 320pp · 90,526 words
. “Since when did ads infect our family albums?” Alderson said. “Since when did one become greater than ninety-nine?” This is also true for HBO’s Silicon Valley, which examines the huge gap between ramen-eating, couch-surfing, low-end tech workers and their 1 percent tech-guru overlords—the show’s main
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Remote Work Revolution: Succeeding From Anywhere
by Tsedal Neeley · 14 Oct 2021 · 223pp · 60,936 words
and employees should engage in social chatter on company-wide social tools. Chapter 5 How Can My Agile Team Operate Remotely? In the popular sitcom TV series Silicon Valley, about a group of six software developers working on what they hope will be the next big product in Silicon Valley, California, the members of
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The Rationalist's Guide to the Galaxy: Superintelligent AI and the Geeks Who Are Trying to Save Humanity's Future
by Tom Chivers · 12 Jun 2019 · 289pp · 92,714 words
on the enormously popular webcomic XKCD,12 to Yudkowsky’s disgust.13 There’s a Kindle novella called Roko’s Basilisk. An episode of the HBO TV series Silicon Valley referenced it; the Doctor Who episode ‘Extremis’ appears to be inspired by it. A mocking Slate column got written about it, asking ‘why are techno
Kings of Crypto: One Startup's Quest to Take Cryptocurrency Out of Silicon Valley and Onto Wall Street
by Jeff John Roberts · 15 Dec 2020 · 226pp · 65,516 words
” that employees described as a hybrid of New Ageism and a twelve-step recovery program. They compared it, unkindly, to something out of the satirical TV show Silicon Valley. In the name of fulfilling a program called “The 15 Commitments,” Conscious Leadership encouraged employees to engage in odd language and rituals when confronted with
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. “One million dollars straight in crypto, in chilly storage,” Bobby says, proffering a USB storage device to a minion. A few days later, HBO’s tech parody, Silicon Valley, would likewise air an episode that uses cryptocurrency as a central plot point. The episode depicts a main character, Bertram Gilfoyle, plunging forward with
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shitcoins. See altcoins Shrem, Charlie, 58, 115–116 Silbert, Barry, 34–35, 54, 207, 213 Silicon Valley, 3–4, 10, 99–100, 212–213, 225 Silicon Valley (TV show), 168 Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), 68–70, 72–73 Silk Road, 31, 59–60, 107, 122, 126–127 Sirer, Emin Gün, 107, 215–216, 218
Technically Wrong: Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and Other Threats of Toxic Tech
by Sara Wachter-Boettcher · 9 Oct 2017 · 223pp · 60,909 words
about who’s being served by its products, and who’s being left behind, alienated, or insulted. . . . There’s a running joke in the HBO comedy Silicon Valley: every would-be entrepreneur, almost always a twentysomething man, at some point announces that his product will “make the world a better place”—and then
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The Bill Gates Problem: Reckoning With the Myth of the Good Billionaire
by Tim Schwab · 13 Nov 2023 · 618pp · 179,407 words
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The Age of Cryptocurrency: How Bitcoin and Digital Money Are Challenging the Global Economic Order
by Paul Vigna and Michael J. Casey · 27 Jan 2015 · 457pp · 128,838 words
of more horizontal, democratic lines of command. (For a visual representation of how this plays out, compare the open-planned office layouts in the contemporaneous TV show Silicon Valley with the closed offices of the sixties-era Mad Men.) Much like the open-source-software development teams that look after bitcoin and countless other
Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World
by Clive Thompson · 26 Mar 2019 · 499pp · 144,278 words
engages in an evening of frenzied keyboard-clattering, producing his app that let Harvard students vote on the relative appearance of female schoolmates. In the TV show Silicon Valley, the night before the startup is about to go down in flames onstage at the TechCrunch conference, the coder-founder Richard has an epiphany and
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Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe
by Roger McNamee · 1 Jan 2019 · 382pp · 105,819 words
with it. You will understand why technologists must be forced to prepare for unintended consequences. They always happen, and their impact is increasingly harmful. HBO’s television series Silicon Valley lampoons the startup culture in a way that always rings true. The plots are exaggerated, but not by as much as you might think. The
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New Normal and The Moonalice Legend: Posters and Words, Volumes 1-9. He has served as a technical advisor for seasons two through five of HBO's "Silicon Valley" series and was also responsible for raising the money that created the Wikimedia Foundation. What’s next on your reading list? Discover your next
The Digital Doctor: Hope, Hype, and Harm at the Dawn of Medicine’s Computer Age
by Robert Wachter · 7 Apr 2015 · 309pp · 114,984 words
an era when we can be in charge. And build empires! We can be the Vikings of our day. —Richard Hendricks, lead character on HBO’s Silicon Valley, 2014 As you’ve seen, the people who complain that the HITECH incentive payments and the Meaningful Use regulations have locked in the incumbents also
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Met His Short-Seller,” Fortune, May 28, 2014. Chapter 25: Silicon Valley Meets Healthcare 235 “For thousands of years, guys like us” “Minimum Viable Product,” Silicon Valley (television series), HBO, 2014. 235 “Our investment convinced the IT world” Interview of David Blumenthal by the author, July 16, 2014. 236 “Health IT Sees First Billion Dollar
It's Not TV: The Spectacular Rise, Revolution, and Future of HBO
by Felix Gillette and John Koblin · 1 Nov 2022 · 575pp · 140,384 words
buses to carnival-like tech campuses. The only thing that felt sorely missing was somebody to make fun of it all. On April 6, 2014, HBO debuted Silicon Valley, a timely new comedy from Mike Judge, skewering America’s self-congratulatory start-up scene. Judge, the creator of several hit TV shows (Beavis
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. While Elon Musk was simmering down, HBO had another headstrong tycoon to worry about. In June 2014, just a couple of months after HBO’s Sunday night premiere of Silicon Valley, Rupert Murdoch, the insatiable media mogul, made an unsolicited $80-billion bid for Time Warner, taking everyone by surprise. Jeffrey Bewkes met
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HBO’s somber black and white, more royal than Netflix’s garish red. WarnerMedia executives also wanted other ways to contrast HBO Max with the new slate of competitors from Silicon Valley. With that goal in mind, the network debuted a website, highlighting recommendations of HBO shows made by fellow fans—and, pointedly
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, June 27, 2016, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jVOLp_DRtY. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT Afterward, Tesla’s Elon Musk: Nellie Bowles, “At HBO’s Silicon Valley Premiere, Elon Musk Has Some Notes,” Recode, Vox, April, 3, 2014. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT Some critics would: Esther Breger, “The Boring
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Sexism of HBO’s ‘Silicon Valley,’ ” New Republic, May 30, 2014. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT In June 2014: Hadas Gold, “Rupert Murdoch’s Failed $80B Bid for Time Warner
How to American: An Immigrant's Guide to Disappointing Your Parents
by Jimmy O. Yang · 13 Mar 2018 · 190pp · 59,892 words
eat the fish.” “Motherfuck!” he howled in complete frustration. The whole crew burst out in laughter. That was my second day on the set of Silicon Valley, an HBO show created by one of my comedy heroes, Mike Judge. It was my big break in Hollywood. My character, Jian Yang, is a fresh
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, Mike Judge, the man who created Beavis and Butt-Head, King of the Hill, Office Space, and the man who’d eventually create an HBO show called Silicon Valley. I watched Beavis and Butt-Head when I first came to America. Even though I didn’t have a strong grasp on the English language
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wants you exclusively on their show.” Nothing is ever perfect, is it? I wasn’t sure if I was going to be back on Silicon Valley, but if HBO called me to be back on the second season, I knew it was something I couldn’t pass up. The first season of Silicon
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. “Let me call HBO and see if they can match the offer.” “What do you mean?” “I’m going to see if HBO will make you a series regular on Silicon Valley.” I almost had an aneurism. Are you crazy? There’s no way! I’m just a random schmuck who was on three
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an American dream come true. CHAPTER NINE HOW TO HOLLYWOOD I was suddenly thrown into a fantasy world. It was the HBO Golden Globes after-party at the Beverly Hilton. Silicon Valley had been nominated for Best Comedy Series and I was invited to the party along with my fellow castmates. The party
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stand-up comedian, used car salesman and strip club DJ. But don’t worry, because you’ll eventually come back around and get on an HBO show called Silicon Valley!” My thirteen-year-old self would probably stare at me blankly and ask, “What is BET? What is stand-up comedian? Who are you
The Geek Way: The Radical Mindset That Drives Extraordinary Results
by Andrew McAfee · 14 Nov 2023 · 381pp · 113,173 words
to admit that your original idea was wrong and running an organization into the ground. Pied Piper, the fictional company at the center of the HBO sitcom Silicon Valley, went through a few pivots. Its original product was a music-finding app. It then got into video compression algorithms, then made servers, and
Amazon Unbound: Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global Empire
by Brad Stone · 10 May 2021 · 569pp · 156,139 words
political comedy Alpha House (operating in the same vein as HBO’s subsequent, funnier Veep) and a dot-com sendup called Betas (ditto for HBO’s Silicon Valley) were among those that made the cut. But when the seasons premiered later that year, they garnered media attention but gained little traction with viewers
The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power
by Max Chafkin · 14 Sep 2021 · 524pp · 130,909 words
, given his impulses, unwilling—to pull back. For the most part, his reputation within the broader world had never been better. On HBO’s tech industry send-up, Silicon Valley, which premiered earlier that year, he’d been lovingly portrayed by Christopher Evan Welch as an out-of-touch but brilliant investor. In
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of snark. Gawker heard a rumor that he had been paying $40,000 to get quarterly infusions from 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
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Mark Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg) wait to pitch Thiel in the Hollywood version of the Facebook story, The Social Network. The “blood boy” episode from HBO’s Silicon Valley made light of Thiel’s interest in parabiosis, a life-extension therapy involving the use of blood from younger donors. In 2018, Facebook cofounder Mark
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Hilarious Critiques of Digital Capitalism,” Artnet, April 2, 2018, https://news.artnet.com/art-world/banksy-guest-stars-sort-of-on-the-latest-episode-of-hbos-silicon-valley-1258157. Thiel’s likeness appeared: Kristen Brown, “Of Course Peter Thiel Is a Green-Skinned Villain in This Board Game,” Gizmodo, January 18, 2018, https
Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble
by Dan Lyons · 4 Apr 2016 · 284pp · 92,688 words
calls on behalf of the agents. Now Ryan is an agent. He’s my agent, apparently. Ryan says there is a new show on HBO called Silicon Valley, and they’re just about to start airing the first episodes, and my old pal Larry Charles has told the showrunner on Silicon Valley about
Talk to Me: How Voice Computing Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Think
by James Vlahos · 1 Mar 2019 · 392pp · 108,745 words
sitting on the floor.” The dialogue, in turn, jumps with non sequiturs. The movie opens with a male character—played by Thomas Middleditch of HBO’s Silicon Valley—clad in shiny gold garb pronouncing that “in a future with mass unemployment, young people are forced to sell blood.” A woman across the room
This Could Be Our Future: A Manifesto for a More Generous World
by Yancey Strickler · 29 Oct 2019 · 254pp · 61,387 words
the hyperexpectations that investors and others have, people run themselves ragged and take dubious shortcuts to get there. Many of the story lines on the HBO series Silicon Valley are built on this based-on-a-true-story premise. Here’s how the cofounder and ex-CEO of another celebrated “fastest-growing company ever
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The Victory Machine: The Making and Unmaking of the Warriors Dynasty
by Ethan Sherwood Strauss · 13 Apr 2020 · 211pp · 67,975 words
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 Las Vegas, and Lacob
Billion Dollar Loser: The Epic Rise and Spectacular Fall of Adam Neumann and WeWork
by Reeves Wiedeman · 19 Oct 2020 · 303pp · 100,516 words
of which had ballooned into the seven figures, WeWork hired T. J. Miller, a comedian who played the cartoonishly boastful venture capitalist Erlich Bachman on HBO’s Silicon Valley, as well as the Chainsmokers, the popular DJ duo, whom they paid in WeWork stock. On Saturday night, Adam was in the front row
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concerns from Case employees that WeWork intended to claim ownership of their personal projects, which Case 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
The Participation Revolution: How to Ride the Waves of Change in a Terrifyingly Turbulent World
by Neil Gibb · 15 Feb 2018 · 217pp · 63,287 words
Revolutions Seventeen years after Sergey Brin and Larry Page first launched Google in their friend Susan Wojcicki’s garage in Menlo Park, California, HBO released the second season of Silicon Valley, its fictional comedy parodying the thriving industry that had grown out of those early garage start-ups. In the third episode, Gareth
The Airbnb Story: How Three Ordinary Guys Disrupted an Industry, Made Billions...and Created Plenty of Controversy
by Leigh Gallagher · 14 Feb 2017 · 290pp · 87,549 words
. It has become part of the zeitgeist. It has been a punchline on Saturday Night Live. It has been written into the plotline of HBO’s Silicon Valley. It’s been the answer to a question on Jeopardy! A romantic comedy with mistaken Airbnb host-identity high jinks as its plot device can
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was a massive, massive data-loss event,” Curtis says. It was like the tequila bottle resting on the delete key in the famous episode of HBO’s Silicon Valley, only it was bigger, and real, and worse, and it was an actual command typed in by an engineer (and one of the department
The Equality Machine: Harnessing Digital Technology for a Brighter, More Inclusive Future
by Orly Lobel · 17 Oct 2022 · 370pp · 112,809 words
community that in 1997 Lena Forsén was a guest at the fiftieth annual Conference of the Society for Imaging Science and Technology. In the popular HBO show Silicon Valley, you can see Lena’s poster plastered on the wall of the incubator–man cave of the geeky male programmers who live and work together
The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own Success
by Ross Douthat · 25 Feb 2020 · 324pp · 80,217 words
a lot of money and ego and talent chasing a lot of essentially small ideas is also the view served up by Mike Judge’s Silicon Valley on HBO. Nowhere is Barzun’s image of a “falling-off” in Western life more vividly embodied than by Walter White and his frustrated ambitions, or
Lab Rats: How Silicon Valley Made Work Miserable for the Rest of Us
by Dan Lyons · 22 Oct 2018 · 252pp · 78,780 words
Silicon Valley–style start-up in Boston, a disastrous experience I chronicled in my last book, before getting a job as a writer on the HBO comedy Silicon Valley. Today, I have returned to the setting of that show—which, while a real place, is also a state of mind—not for fun
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receive a slightly smaller return, then so be it. Making the World a Better Place For two seasons I worked as a writer on the HBO comedy series Silicon Valley. A running joke on that show was about how tech founders always talked about “changing the world” and “putting a dent in the universe
The Cult of We: WeWork, Adam Neumann, and the Great Startup Delusion
by Eliot Brown and Maureen Farrell · 19 Jul 2021 · 460pp · 130,820 words
innovator,” but he personally was profiting off the word “We.” Journalists, investors, and countless casual observers piled on, raising unflattering parallels to Enron, the HBO satire Silicon Valley, and Elizabeth Holmes’s disgraced blood-testing company, Theranos. “This company is not even interested in concealing its role as a medium to funnel money
The Wires of War: Technology and the Global Struggle for Power
by Jacob Helberg · 11 Oct 2021 · 521pp · 118,183 words
, Apple’s ad campaign celebrating “the crazy ones” spoke to those who saw the global potential of tech. By the mid-2010s, shows like HBO’s Silicon Valley were skewering tech’s grandiose, world-changing rhetoric. “We’re making the world a better place through software-defined data centers for cloud computing,” one
Stealing Fire: How Silicon Valley, the Navy SEALs, and Maverick Scientists Are Revolutionizing the Way We Live and Work
by Steven Kotler and Jamie Wheal · 21 Feb 2017 · 407pp · 90,238 words
repeated by team members), but it most likely originated with the Greek poet Archilochus. “If you haven’t been [to Burning Man]’”: Nellie Bowles, “At HBO’s ‘Silicon Valley’ Premiere, Elon Musk Has Some Notes,” ReCode, April 3, 2014. 4. “So embedded, so accepted has Burning Man become”: Vanessa Hua, “Burning Man,” SFGate
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
While some of these ideas for regenerative medicine are pretty “out there,” they 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
Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World
by Malcolm Harris · 14 Feb 2023 · 864pp · 272,918 words
were more casual setups, too. The fictional prototype is Erlich Bachman, the extroverted bullshit artist at the center of Mike Judge’s HBO clown-era Palo Alto satire, Silicon Valley. Bachman sold his web start-up of unclear utility—an air-travel data scraper named Aviato—to Frontier Airlines and spun his winnings
Abolish Silicon Valley: How to Liberate Technology From Capitalism
by Wendy Liu · 22 Mar 2020 · 223pp · 71,414 words
by. Bulging garbage bags piled up in the kitchen and were periodically removed to reveal entire ant colonies underneath. We started communally watching episodes of HBO’s Silicon Valley, and even though I knew it was meant to be making fun of Silicon Valley culture, I still found it unexpectedly inspirational. We were
Wild Ride: Inside Uber's Quest for World Domination
by Adam Lashinsky · 31 Mar 2017 · 190pp · 62,941 words
Francisco a couple months later the comedian T. J. Miller, popular for his portrayal of the perennially stoned company founder Erlich Bachman on the hit HBO show Silicon Valley, quipped that Kalanick deserved an award for “constantly stepping in shit.” It was a precarious moment for Uber: even as its business was picking up
Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World
by Meredith Broussard · 19 Apr 2018 · 245pp · 83,272 words
Charles River Ventures, now runs the Startup Bus every year and also runs Startup House, a residential incubator for hackers like the one lampooned on HBO’s Silicon Valley. He’s also infamous for serving as a judge at the 2013 TechCrunch Disrupt hackathon, in which two participants proposed an app, Titstare, for
Transaction Man: The Rise of the Deal and the Decline of the American Dream
by Nicholas Lemann · 9 Sep 2019 · 354pp · 118,970 words
Trek, Star Wars) and Joss Whedon (The Avengers)—and he served as a kind of informal consultant to Mike Judge, the creator of the satirical HBO show Silicon Valley, to help make sure all the jokes landed. He had an uncanny, even jarring ability to move seamlessly between the purely notional realm of gaming
Insane Mode: How Elon Musk's Tesla Sparked an Electric Revolution to End the Age of Oil
by Hamish McKenzie · 30 Sep 2017 · 307pp · 90,634 words
—could change the world. It’s easy to ridicule Silicon Valley’s “change the world” pretensions, and many have made sport of doing so. HBO’s Silicon Valley, for instance, has been one of the most effective (“I don’t want to live in a world where someone else is making the world
Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies
by Reid Hoffman and Chris Yeh · 14 Apr 2018 · 286pp · 87,401 words
discover the secret to Silicon Valley’s success, you need to look beyond the standard origin story. When people think of Silicon Valley, the first things that spring to mind—after the HBO television show, of course—are the names of famous start-ups and their equally glamorized founders: Apple, Google, Facebook; Jobs
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in their Dropbox and linking them to their computers. In an interview for my Masters of Scale podcast, Drew described a scene reminiscent of the television show Silicon Valley (but with a happier ending): What we did is we went on Craigslist and offered $40 to anyone who’d come in for half an
How to Turn Down a Billion Dollars: The Snapchat Story
by Billy Gallagher · 13 Feb 2018 · 359pp · 96,019 words
’s Dilemma, a 1997 book by Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen. Christensen wrote the book before “disruptive innovation” was a punchline on the HBO comedy Silicon Valley, and it has managed to maintain its revered status for two decades. We can see the core concept of The Innovator’s Dilemma at work
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