Like the other HBO comedy "Vice President" that I have been chasing before, "Silicon Valley" is short but has a clear main line. It is different from the general American comedy from stunning to gradually sinking into a lack of main line and increasingly scattered narrative. And relying on the flimsy personality and the jokes maintained by vulgar adults to the jokes, the eight episodes are almost one-third of the length of a season of comedy dramas, and every minute of the work is in the lines of the scripts and sentences. , Pungent sarcasm, and black humor, condensed one aspect of the unknown Silicon Valley in it.
When we talk about Silicon Valley, we often think of well-known high-tech companies such as Google, Microsoft, and Apple, and the legendary story of how a genius like Mark Zuckerberg dropped out of school but succeeded in starting a business. It seems that in the dream garden of the IT industry in Silicon Valley, technology houses of different skin colors have countless opportunities to be found every day. This is another stage where the American dream is staged more rapidly under the background of rapid development of technology. .
Richard, like the thousands of programmers who drifted in Palo Alto, lived in Erlich with Big Head, Gilfoyle, and Dinesh, an Internet program that he developed and relied on the money. Bought a house in the house of the former programmer homeowner who "capitulated" young geeks and promised him 10% of his software's income. Richard’s ridiculed music program pied piper was accidentally discovered by two technology tycoons, Peter Gregory and Gavin Belson, who discovered the infinite potential of the algorithm and started competing. In the end, he gave up the huge amount of buyout and chose to start a business from scratch with his partners.
The hot biopic "Social Network" in the past few years has given many people a glimpse of the bitterness of the IT industry. Ignorance, deception, and betrayal. Behind these popular business venture stories, the IT industry is actually full of more irony and contradictions.
When Richard faced the dilemma of upgrading his usual partner to the company's founding employee and had to exclude the poorly skilled Big Head, Erlich told him that if he wanted to be like the two tycoons, he had to learn how to be an asshole. Because from the day when he started his entrepreneurial career, he had to leave behind those days when he was simply immersed in research. Entering the role of the company's CEO means that a person who puts business interests and corporate development as the first priority. The soul of the company and personal sentiments are sometimes so fragile in the face of the grand vision.
In fact, this kind of entrepreneurial environment is quite similar to the art world. If an artist wants to fight for the status of an internationally renowned "master" with a reputation and wealth, he must first stop sleeping and forgetting food. To be separated from the body of a pure artist in art research and creation, and to arm oneself with another half-brained business operation mind, is actually exactly the opposite of the original intention of the so-called art. However, since we are talking about business, costs and sacrifices are often accompanied by shadows. For the IT industry, it may be more cruel. In the beginning, these high-IQ science students were much more innocent and incomprehensible than the literary youth who were immersed in art and literature all day long. They were timid to talk to others, and would vomit when they were nervous, and even think about the opposite sex. Still staying at the level of elementary school students. Most people just have dreams, longing for the legend of their IT industry idol, believing in the "make the world a better place" that tycoons have been talking about all day long in advertisements and press conferences, and believing that the code world they have created will one day. Can go one step further towards this goal.
Dreams are used to break, to dismember. In the first meeting with Gregory, Richard didn't know how to start a company, how to prepare the complicated paperwork, and even stupidly took a check for the company's name to deposit money for an unregistered company.
All entrepreneurial histories are the same. The most ironic and contradictory thing is that an artist can no longer be an artist. He must become a businessman, a negotiator, a leader of interests, and a person who uses ruthless methods. The person who creates the core code is also the company's CEO and the company's brand. His devout and dedicated works are to be turned into best-selling commodities. For thousands of years, human society has been following similar laws, just focusing on research, waiting for opportunities to appear, then at least your work will be left unattended for a long time, and may have been unknown before the author's death. What is even more ironic is that it is after death that many celebrities use the name of their untimely death rather than the value that they should show, that their works and reputation are widely spread.
Just like the poster of the play, everyone wore the familiar black turtleneck sweaters and performed the familiar actions. At first glance, they knew that they were the popular idols of IT industry, Jobs. In the public perception, Jobs himself is the core of the Apple brand, and he represents the entire enterprise. When I think of Apple’s unique LOGO, I think of this photo of Jobs, which is almost like another LOGO.
However, what is not well known is that Jobs does not write code. Another Steve, Wozniak, created everything. The fact is that the reputation of a genius has disappeared, but another commercial genius has led a company to a big stage like the sky, opening a new era of technology.
Erlich, Jobs' most loyal admirer, gave up his dream early and used his proceeds to invest in other people's dreams. It is not difficult to see that his talent is not in programming. He who sees this is more suitable to use his emotional intelligence in negotiations, negotiations, and conference speeches, and he did so.
The luckiest person is naturally the protagonist Richard, who is alive with a legend of the American Dream guided by traditional American values. Opportunities that fell from the sky and the cooperation of various partners encountered obstacles on the road to entrepreneurship, but in the end they took the genius IQ to succeed. It is completely a condensed shorthand for the success story of Silicon Valley. In him, the dream is still not completely different, even if he is shattered by reality a few times, it seems that he still maintains the original outline.
Even if the main storyline is still so complete, the language of a comedy will not stop at the point where the audience can only smile.
This is Silicon Valley. Dreams are dismembered to varying degrees here.
Erlich, after recognizing the reality, changed the dream sales into a small day calculation. Without Richard's sudden fortune, he would just be talking about the glory of the past in the long leisure time of profiting from the tenants. Gilfoyle and Dinesh may be the most normal, turning their dreams to work for their companions, at least not deviating too much from the direction. Big Head, who is the most mediocre in a group of people, has gradually become like those abandoned colleagues on the roof in a high-paying short job. , And then one day lost in the labyrinth of the mind.
Some of the women make a living by dancing, and some are responsible for talking with the male guests at the party. The children play the role of bullies on the streets and run the business of illegal drugs. The Latins who directed the street fighting with guns were in charge of certain corners of the city.
All success is so fragile in Silicon Valley. A change in investment trends and a cracking of key codes can make a company with tens of millions of people disappear overnight.
This is Palo Alto. Everything is born for the Silicon Valley dream, and people die here with their dreams.
The not so cruel black humorous language said all the bitterness. In fact, all circles are similar. There is no eternal genius, only successful businessmen. A person can't live without any worries on his dreams and grow old. Only by constantly climbing and managing can one bathe his life in wealth.
Silicon Valley. Hollywood. Beijing. It is similar everywhere.
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