Tuesday 30 May 2017

HBO’s Silicon Valley underlines the importance of the tech industry bullshit artist

Silicon Valley is Mike Judge and Alec Berg’s biting comedy about the American tech industry, now in its fourth season. Every week, we’ll be taking one idea, scene, or joke and explain how it ties to the real Silicon Valley and speaks to an issue at the heart of the industry and its everlasting goal to change the world — and make boatloads of money in the process.

Spoilers ahead for the sixth episode of season 4, “Customer Support.”

When Silicon Valley creators Mike Judge and Alex Berg set out to satirize the tech industry, they knew they would need a bloviating, self-indulgent moron that would be emblematic of a certain type of Bay Area entrepreneur.

Under all the grand mission statements and platitudes about changing the world, the...

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from
https://www.theverge.com/2017/5/30/15713318/hbo-silicon-valley-recap-season-4-episode-6-customer-support

from
http://ifeeltechinc.blogspot.com/2017/05/hbos-silicon-valley-underlines.html

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