If you took Sheldon and Leonard from the TV series "The Big Bang Theory" and made them instead of physicists, software engineers and entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley, you sort of get what this HBO series is all about. (Oh, you also make them not funny and serious). So, I guess if you want to make it big in Silicon Valley watching this might be useful. And even if you don't want to work in Silicon Valley watching about what their lives are like might be interesting too, because their lives are pretty unique in various ways compared to the rest of the world.
After watching the first two episodes it basically shows how software is a product but you still need a business to create the product with. For example, he takes a check for pied Piper but doesn't even have a DBA for California (doing business as). Without a doing business as (DBA) you cannot cash or deposit a check for a fictitious name for that business or do anything with the check at all. Even then you would have to decide whether it was going to be a sole proprietorship, a partnership, a company or a corporation etc. with all the proper paperwork. And even if it was a corporation which state or country are you going to want to base it in for tax purposes?
So, on multiple levels this program is definitely educational on multiple levels whatever else you might think of it.
Later: However, when the rich millionaire partner who started an Internet company before and is mentoring the younger guys takes mushrooms to get a vision quest of the right name for the company and goes to Sonora and brings back a Mexican boy about age 12 who he thinks is himself from the future I realized this has to be a comedy and saw why it was on HBO instead of regular TV or Cable. But, it is so subtle for me since I live near Silicon Valley I didn't get it before now. Because I have met many young men like the ones in "Silicon Valley" in College and around Los Angeles and the SF Bay area for about 30 to 40 years now. So, meeting geniuses is something I have done my whole life in college and after so I sort of got used to them over time even though my background growing up is blue collar mostly but my Dad was a minister and an Electrical Contractor so I learned to meet and deal with a lot of rich and well educated people in college and after too. My Dad and I wired homes and kitchens for very rich people. In fact, some of the kitchen we did were more expensive by far than most people's houses in the U.S. So, we met film directors, actors, who lived in places like Beverly Hills, Brentwood, Bel Air, and other wealthier districts in Los Angeles near Hollywood from the time I was 12 summers until I was 17 and went away to school in another state for a year.
My son always was a computer genius too even though he decided to in addition to programming and building computers and wiring companies for internet and secure company systems and setting up systems that he wanted to help people in other ways and got a BS in Nursing and now is teaching and is married and having a baby and seems pretty happy now. So, like I said my son often had computer genius friends with physics degrees who traveled the world and made money making film documentaries around the world and stuff like that. So, listening to the "Silicon Valley" guys was somewhat normal for me but if you are from other parts of the country or world they might seem pretty different as geniuses often are. Creative people are hard to figure out because they don't follow the rules other people do. Instead they just get rich making their own rules as they go like men used to in olden times. IT doesn't mean it's easy but it can be done. (At least it can be done in Silicon Valley and other parts of California) because it is accepted as part of the culture here.
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