Montag, 23. Juni 2014

CAJ#15 Silicon Valley - TV Series



Silicon Valley is an American television sitcom that centers on six young men who found a startup company called “Pied Piper” in Silicon Valley.

Richard Hendriks is a typical Nerd. Shy, reclusive, he loves technology and is highly intelligent. He works at a large Internet company called Hooli, while developing a music app called Pied Piper. Hooli executitive Donal Dunn discovers that the app contains a revolutionary data compression algorithm and proposes Richard a $10 million buyout of Pied Piper. The billionaire Peter Gregory, however, offers him a $ 200,000 investment for 5 % ownership in the company. Encouraged by Peter Gergory’s assistant and because of the support of his friends he decides to choose the $200,000 investment and tries to start his own company as the CEO of Pied Piper.

The TV-series that is made to entertain people, one can clearly see the typical life of people in Silicon Valley. There are the super-rich on one side and the nerds on the other. The latter are just like you would assume them to be. Shy, hoodie-sweater-wearing, reclusive, restrained but highly intelligent guys who live together in a house full with computers, game consoles and video games. They do not meet girls or have any other hobbies and therefore they have enough time to spend their days with computer programs and algorithms.
On the other side there are the super-rich people who made their money with investments in start-up companies. They own billions of dollars and do not really care if one of the start-ups they invested in does not work out quite well. They simply invest in an other company.

All in all, it is a very fun series to watch. You get a good impression of how live is in Silicon Valley. You see how the system functions and how super-intelligent and super-rich people work together. Really worth watching :)




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