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 6
Pied Piper has become a large company of 500 employees with Richard
speaking before Congress on his ideology of a new internet that doesn't
collect user data. He is shocked to learn that Colin's online game Gates of Galloo,
part of the Pied Piper family, has been collecting user data the entire
time. Colin refuses to stop, but Pied Piper depends on his game's
revenue, so Richard seeks new investment in order to cut Colin loose. He
finds shady Chilean billionaire Maximo Reyes, who offers Richard $1
billion. When Richard turns him down, Maximo begins staging a hostile
takeover of Pied Piper.
Meanwhile, Richard's right-hand man Jared has
left Pied Piper to seek a new up-and-coming talent in need of his
support. Hooli, once a tech giant headed by Richard's rival Gavin
Belson, downsizes drastically after most of the company is sold to
Amazon. Pied Piper purchases what remains of Hooli, including its
subsidiary FoxHole. CFIUS
judges foreign ownership of FoxHole to be a threat to national
security, and Maximo is forced to sell all of his shares of Pied Piper.
Gavin, free from his Hooli position, launches a new campaign for
"Tethics" (tech ethics) which leads to an investigation that would tie
up Pied Piper's business dealings. Richard is able to maneuver out of
this with the help of Russ Hanneman. However, Pied Piper must now help
Russ with his music festival RussFest. At RussFest, Richard suspects
Laurie may be sabotaging their software as it is failing. It turns out
that neither Yao Net USA nor Pied Piper scale. Instead of quitting,
Richard integrates Gilfoyle's AI (with some edits from Dinesh) into
PiperNet and it works better than anyone could have expected, allowing
Pied Piper to close a deal with AT&T.
However, the team soon realizes that in this effort to maximize
compression and efficiency, PiperNet's AI has found a way to bypass all
encryption, causing a potential global threat if launched. Thus
PiedPiper is forced to intentionally fail to save the world from their
own creation. They are successful in crashing the launch. There is a 10
year flash forward to see where everyone is, ending with Richard
misplacing a flash drive with the potential world security-threatening
code on it.
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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