If Steve Jobs might write a single line of code, maybe Silicon Valley would by no means exist.
In 2014, Mike Decide, Dave Krinsky and John Altschuler unveiled their new HBO comedy that may change into the defining sitcom of Huge Tech. Silicon Valley, a send-up of start-ups, billionaires and the Bay Space, rapidly grew to become a large hit as tech employees and the technologically challenged alike flocked to the hardly exaggerated adventures of a fledgeling firm competing towards the eccentric, egotistical and out-of-touch titans of the business. The CEOs of Silicon Valley, particularly the principle sequence antagonist Gavin Belson, are obsessive about the concept that their success in enterprise is for the nice of all humanity — however, as Altschuler lately identified, actual billionaire moguls are barely even human at this level.
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Whereas talking on the Iberseries & Platino Industria convention in Madrid earlier this week, Altschuler mirrored on the origins of Silicon Valley and revealed his personal emotions on the real-life multi-billionaires whom he skewered within the sequence. Altschuler stated that tech’s largest names are all ”grasping, ravenous, horrible individuals,” who, hilariously, couldn’t code their means out of a Chinese language sweatshop.
Throughout the convention, Altschuler revealed that the thought for a present satirizing the tech business and its leaders got here to him when he learn the Walter Isaacson-written biography Steve Jobs, which additionally impressed the 2015 movie by the identical identify. “It’s an excellent guide,” stated Altschuler. “I got here to a passage about Invoice Gates ridiculing Steve Jobs, saying: ‘The man can’t even write code.’ And I’m like, properly, that is hilarious.” Altschuler then resolved to make a satire in regards to the uber-rich tech leaders who model themselves as geniuses regardless of being something however.
To be able to be taught extra in regards to the quickly rising business that he meant to skewer alongside together with his long-time artistic associate Decide, Altschuler secured conferences with three completely different Silicon Valley tech corporations. Based on Altschuler, all three CEOs gave him a grandiose mission assertion alongside the strains of, “We’re not focused on being profitable, we’re focused on making the world a greater place.”
As such, the delusional, pompous and ruthless enterprise leaders of Silicon Valley additionally trend themselves because the vanguard of humanity itself, and so they rationalize their egocentric drive to crush the competitors and accumulate bigger and bigger fortunes as a noble calling that can enrich the world together with them. Full with the sycophantic religious advisors and petty private rivalries, Gavin Belson is each bit as narcissistic, pretentious and sanctimonious as the true Jobs.
Though it is perhaps unfair to say that Belson is Jobs’ equal. In any case, Belson might truly code.
