I love the HBO series, Silicon Valley. I have no first-hand knowledge of the tech world, except for what I’ve read but it really seems the shows creators have gotten all of the details just right. The fake software company names and the extreme nerd insider jokes is likely cracking up the REAL Silicon Valley. This last episode found Pied Piper (our protagonist’s compression software company) looking for a “big fish” client. Intercept is the (ficticious) software company that services the mega-bucks porn industry and Pied Piper’s CEO Richard Hendricks crashes an Intercept conference seeking funding. As he listens to the dry, corporate presentation, we cut quickly from the speaker to the various boring business-suited CEO’s listening intently and the names of the various companies on placards had me literally screaming with laughter… there were a few thrown in with non-porn site sounding names, just to be realistic. It all moves really quickly but I had to get these screen-grabs; “Poop on my Wife?” “Porn Hospice?” I died.
