and lady of the board" has the real-life counterpart of a Google investor addressing Ruth Porat, the company’s CFO, as "the lady CFO," even though he referred to another board member by his name. This week, Gavin Belson’s smarmy "gentlemen. The Real Dealįirst of all, this show has a remarkable way of dovetailing with real-life events it could not have known about back when it was filming. The show closes with no music, no words, just the image of a Bangladeshi worker going to a dark, oppressive office to create thousands upon thousands of Pied Piper accounts. Seeing that this won’t work and heartbreakingly devoted to the success of the team, Jared goes rogue, hiring a click farm to create and maintain accounts to goose that DAU number.
With the remaining funds available to him, Richard comes up with the best "how-Pied-Piper-works" thing he can think of, which is "Pipey," an animated bot eerily reminiscent of "Clippy," the universally detested Microsoft Word assistant from the late 1990s. Meanwhile, Gavin Belson regains control of Hooli when his security-detail mole hips him to Pied Piper’s continuing struggles, prompting him to "reveal" his real plan all along, which turns out to be Jack Barker’s goddamn unkillable box. A short-lived one: The team can’t recreate this breakthrough at CES, with informational tables or in Richard-led symposia.
Unlike the petulant Gavin, Richard charges into the room and explains the platform to the assembled focus group, finally breaking through to a woman named Bernice, which he counts as a victory. Monica sets Richard up with a market research firm - the same one Gavin used in Season 2, Episode 6, featuring the same robotic coordinator. Raviga celebrates 500,000 Pied Piper installs, but the dirty secret held by Richard, Jared and Monica is that the app has a dismal number of daily active users, a more descriptive metric of an app’s success. "Sharing is tables," the ad, which cost most of Pied Piper’s remaining funds, told the world.
The show opened with a pitch-perfect ad for a generic startup that gave no hint of what actually happens with the app. Buckle your seat belts, because this was definitely a bumpy ride. With only one episode left in this season, the Pied Piper team is ping-ponging back and forth from highs to lows quicker than Maria Bamford. This week, Richard’s too-limited beta catches up to him, and Gavin gets his groove back. Each week, we watch "Silicon Valley" on HBO and then reflect on the ways the show mirrors - or doesn't - the real Silicon Valley.
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