Richard Hendricks
description: a fictional character in the television series Silicon Valley, depicted as a software engineer
6 results
The Geek Way: The Radical Mindset That Drives Extraordinary Results
by Andrew McAfee · 14 Nov 2023 · 381pp · 113,173 words
conveyed the great geek norm of openness. Pied Piper was one incessant argument, punctuated by periods of writing code. Its employees showed little deference to Richard Hendricks, the company’s beleaguered CEO. The software developers Bertram Guilfoyle and Dinesh Chugtai respected Hendricks’s technical abilities and realized he was the final decision
Billionaire, Nerd, Savior, King: Bill Gates and His Quest to Shape Our World
by Anupreeta Das · 12 Aug 2024 · 315pp · 115,894 words
.” 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, neurotic, socially inept entrepreneur prone to vomiting when nervous—explains the historic opportunity for nerds: “For thousands of years, guys like
How to American: An Immigrant's Guide to Disappointing Your Parents
by Jimmy O. Yang · 13 Mar 2018 · 190pp · 59,892 words
The Office and The 40-Year-Old Virgin and it was the first time I’d seen Thomas Middleditch, who played the lead role of Richard Hendricks. Nobody had heard of Silicon Valley yet, but each of them painted such a vivid picture of their distinct characters. There was an undeniable chemistry
Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys' Club of Silicon Valley
by Emily Chang · 6 Feb 2018 · 334pp · 104,382 words
Bloomberg studio from his Mountain View apartment. He 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 Digital Doctor: Hope, Hype, and Harm at the Dawn of Medicine’s Computer Age
by Robert Wachter · 7 Apr 2015 · 309pp · 114,984 words
first time, we’re living in 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
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
dormitory-like house full of young, male, socially inept software engineers, banging out code, mocking each other, and striving for tech stardom. At the start, Richard Hendricks (Thomas Middleditch), a high-strung computer programmer, is developing Pied Piper, a new app that will allow people to search the universe of recorded music