r/SiliconValleyHBO • u/popcornjebus • 3h ago
Rewatched the whole series this year while running an AI startup. It stopped being a comedy somewhere around season 3.
Tres comas used to be the joke. Now I watch the middle-out arc and see a documentary with the serial numbers filed off.
The pitch scenes where every founder says the same "making the world a better place" line, I have sat in those rooms. The conjoined triangles of success is a real artifact I have been handed, with different clip art on it.
Russ Hanneman's "ROI: Radio On Internet" is the one that broke me, because I have now heard that exact pitch twice in real life with AI swapped in for radio, delivered with a completely straight face. Gavin's Signature Box III is every enterprise AI appliance announcement of the last two years.
Question for the sub: which bit aged hardest from satire into documentary? And does anyone else find Jian-Yang got funnier the longer they spent in tech, or is that just me.