The first few episodes of this season of Silicon Valley see more momentum, whether forward or downward, than the rest of the series to date. This year, Judge and his team have hit the accelerator on a series long defined by its inertia. Last season’s climax saw Pied Piper once again reduced to four dudes in an incubator, after a brief interlude with cavernous offices and a hotshot CEO. On top of its consistent, dispiriting accuracy, though, Silicon Valley’s latest go-round also features a hefty dose of change, that most fetishized of commodities in Northern California. Those emotions: incredulity, schadenfreude, and underneath it all, a bone-deep depression that this is how our supposed best and brightest are spending their money and time. ![]() The article inspires a near-identical mix of emotions as the fourth season of Mike Judge’s methodical satire, which also features a food-related enterprise massively overvalued by trigger-happy VCs. This time, the embarrassment comes via Bloomberg’s casual ethering of Juicero, the $400 juicer funded by $120 million of venture capital that apparently isn’t much better than simply squeezing the company’s prepackaged bags by hand. ![]() ![]() Like clockwork, another season of Silicon Valley has been heralded by a tech industry snafu that could very well be viral marketing for Silicon Valley.
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