Silicon Valley (TV series)
I gotta say, I find the HBO TV series Silicon Valley absolutely hilarious, but I wonder how many people outside of the Valley understand all the jokes?
The thing is, with a lot of the stuff on the show that seems exaggerated… that shit actually happens IRL. And, being a Valley lawyer, I found this exchange on the last episode priceless where the lawyer is listing out all the “boilerplate” things Pied Piper is being sued for:
Ron LaFlamme: “…breach of non-solicitation and the hiring of someone named Donald Dunn.”
Richard: “That’s Jared. We call him Jared.”
Ron: “Changing his name to get out of it. Clever, but irrelevant…”
And then in an example of how stuff seems exaggerated but it’s not:
“We’re going to have to lawyer up.”
“Waaaait. Aren’t you our lawyer?”
“I’m not a litigator. That’s what you need.”
“Another lawyer. Really?”
“Lawyers, Richie. You don’t wanna mess around here.”
In recounting this exchange, one reviewer observed how LaFlamme “immediately distances himself from the hard work of the lawsuit,” but the truth is, that’s exactly what a corporate lawyer in the Valley (and outside the Valley for that matter), would say.
And in season 1 there’s a scene where Jared (the biz dev guy) creates a scrum board to manage the team’s projects. A couple weeks later, I walk into a meeting room at work, and the biz dev guys had put up a scrum board on the wall. (I then printed out the picture below and stuck it on their board. They took it in good humor.)
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