Silicon Valley is an American comedy television series created by Mike Judge, John Altschuler and Dave Krinsky. It premiered on HBO on April 6, 2014, running for a total of six seasons of 53 episodes.[1] The series finale aired on December 8, 2019.[2][3][4] The series, a parody of Silicon Valley culture, focuses on Richard Hendricks (Thomas Middleditch),
a programmer who founds a startup company called Pied Piper, and
chronicles his struggles trying to maintain his company while facing
competition from larger entities.[5][6] Co-stars of the series include T.J. Miller, Josh Brener, Martin Starr, Kumail Nanjiani, Zach Woods, Amanda Crew, and Matt Ross. Silicon Valley
has received critical acclaim since its airing, with praise for its
writing and humor. The show has been nominated for numerous accolades,
including five consecutive Primetime Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Comedy Series.
Season 5
In the fifth season, the Pied Piper team gets new offices and hires a
large team of coders to help work on Richard's new internet. Meanwhile,
Jian-Yang manages to convince a judge that Erlich is dead so that he
can inherit Erlich's estate, including the idea incubator and the 10%
share of Pied Piper. Richard promotes Jared to be the new chief operating officer for Pied Piper, and Jian-Yang goes to China to build a knock-off version of Pied Piper.
Bream/Hall forces Richard to team up with Eklow, an AI team, and
Pied Piper puts together a group of developers. When Eklow's CEO almost
destroys Pied Piper's credibility, Richard becomes fed up with Laurie
and considers using Gilfoyle's idea to create a cryptocurrency
for Pied Piper as a way to secure an independent source of funding.
After initially opposing the idea, Monica realizes that Laurie plans to
make Richard sell ads for his decentralized internet, and warns him. In gratitude, Richard offers her the newly vacated role of CFO at Pied Piper, and she accepts, finally cutting ties with Laurie.
After unimpressive results from their cryptocurrency, Pied Piper
is distraught when Laurie teams up with a wealthy Chinese manufacturer,
Yao, who had been working with Belson to steal Jian-Yang's Pied Piper
patent. Yao and Laurie add users to Pied Piper's network via a large
number of newly manufactured phones, and prepare for a 51% attack
against Pied Piper's cryptocurrency. Richard asks Belson to put their
software onto Hooli's Signature Box 3 network in order to stop Yao and
Laurie, and Belson does so, but betrays Richard by teaming up with
Laurie and Yao to delete Pied Piper. At the last minute, Pied Piper
recruits Colin, another developer betrayed by Laurie, to run his popular
video game Gates of Galloo on the Pied Piper network, adding
users and allowing Pied Piper to maintain control of enough of the
network to block Yao's and Hooli's machines from accessing it.
Meanwhile, due to the losses incurred in launching the unsuccessful
Signature Box 3, Hooli's board of directors announce plans that force
Belson to sell the company to Amazon and Jeff Bezos. PiedPiperCoin gains traction, and the season ends with the Pied Piper team moving into a huge new office space.
Cast and characters
- Thomas Middleditch as Richard Hendricks, a coder and founder/CEO of Pied Piper.
- T.J. Miller as Erlich Bachman (seasons 1–4), an entrepreneur who runs an innovation incubator in his house and owns 10% of Pied Piper.
- Josh Brener as Nelson "Big Head" Bighetti, Richard's best friend who works at Hooli. Despite possessing few skills as a programmer, he often finds himself being promoted and finding success.
- Martin Starr as Bertram Gilfoyle, the network engineer of Pied Piper who is known for his stolid and sardonic personality.
- Kumail Nanjiani as Dinesh Chugtai, a programmer specializing in Java and member of Pied Piper. He is often the victim of Gilfoyle's ridicule and pranks.
- Christopher Evan Welch as Peter Gregory (season 1), the socially awkward billionaire founder and CEO of Raviga Capital as well as a 5% equity owner of Pied Piper after his $200,000 investment.
- Amanda Crew as Monica Hall, an employee of Raviga Capital and associate partner.
- Zach Woods as Donald "Jared" Dunn, an ex-VP of Hooli who quits the company in order to join the Pied Piper team as its COO and business advisor.
- Matt Ross as Gavin Belson (recurring season 1, starring seasons 2–6), the CEO and founder of Hooli and the series' main antagonist.
- Suzanne Cryer as Laurie Bream (seasons 2–6), the replacement for Peter Gregory as CEO of Raviga Capital, and later co-founder of Bream Hall Capital with Monica. Like her predecessor, she is highly intelligent and socially inept.
- Jimmy O. Yang as Jian-Yang (recurring season 1, starring seasons 2–6), another tenant of Erlich's incubator, but has no involvement with Pied Piper. He and Erlich have frequent disagreements.
- Stephen Tobolowsky as "Action" Jack Barker (recurring season 3, starring season 4), briefly CEO of Pied Piper and later Hooli.
- Chris Diamantopoulos as Russ Hanneman (recurring season 2–3, starring seasons 4 and 6, guest season 5), a brash, loud and fiery billionaire investor who provides Pied Piper with their Series A.
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