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Silicon Valley by HBO Season 1, Episode 6 – Show Review
Richard and his doctor start off the sixth episode with dialogue covering Richard’s physical health. Their conversation displays the unhealthy amount of stress certain people experience as entrepreneurs. The show picks up on real trends in technology, and pokes fun of them such as cloud computing. Pied Piper is faced with needing a working demo of their product when competing at TechCrunch Disrupt. Austin Abrams performs as the hacker known as The Carver. He is brought in to help Richard develop code to integrate with cloud computing. When negotiating with The Carver, the team strikes a deal
Silicon Valley by HBO Season 1, Episode 5 – Show Review
The Pied Piper team goes looking in all the wrong places for a logo. Erlich Bachman recruits a street artist by the name of Chuy to get some edge added to the brand. Bachman arranges a deal with Chuy for $10,000 to create the logo. The total budget for Pied Piper is $200,000. In reality the logo should probably not cost five percent of the total operating budget. Another issue that is brought up in episode five is that Richard had submitted an entry for the TechCrunch Disrupt competition, and forgot to withdraw the entry. For startups