Attending an elaborate launch party, Richard and his computer programmer friends - Big Head, Dinesh and Gilfoyle - dream of making it big. Instead, they're living in the communal Hacker Hostel owned by former programmer Erlich, who gets to claim ten percent of anything they invent there. When it becomes clear that Richard has developed a powerful compression algorithm for his website, Pied Piper, he finds himself courted by Gavin Belson, his egomaniacal corporate boss, who offers a $10 million buyout by his firm, Hooli. But Richard holds back when well-known investor Peter Gregory makes a counteroffer.

Silicon Valley Season 1 Episodes...

• s01e01 - Minimum Viable Product
• s01e02 - The Cap Table
• s01e03 - Articles of Incorporation
• s01e04 - Fiduciary Duties
• s01e05 - Signaling Risk
• s01e06 - Third Party Insourcing
• s01e07 - Proof of Concept
• s01e08 - Optimal Tip-To-Top Efficiency

Silicon Valley Show Summary

In the high-tech gold rush of modern Silicon Valley, the people most qualified to succeed are the least capable of handling success.

Richard is an introverted computer programmer living in the Hacker
Hostel start-up incubator along with his best friend, Big Head, pompous Gilfoyle and dry-witted Dinesh. These social misfits live under the watch of Erlich, a self-satisfied dotcom millionaire who lets them stay in his house for free - as long as he gets a ten percent stake in their projects.

After a failed pitch to billionaire venture capitalist Peter Gregory, Richard seems destined to remain at his job at the tech company Hooli, founded by the megalomaniacal Gavin Belson. When Monica, Gregory's head of operations, and Jared, a Hooli executive, realize the value of the site's compression algorithm, a bidding war erupts between Belson and Gregory, with Richard caught in the middle.