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Silicon Valley 1×1

& Erlich: That’s why I started this place. To do something big. To make a difference. You know, like Steve.
    Richard: Uh, Jobs or Wozniak? ... Steve Jobs or Steve...
    Erlich: Oh, I heard you.
    Richard: Which one?
    Erlich: Jobs.
    Richard: I mean, Jobs was a poser. He didn’t even write code.
    Erlich: You just disappeared up your own asshole.

& Gavin Belson: 'What is Hooli? Excellent question. Hooli isn’t just another high tech company. Hooli isn’t just about software. Hooli. Hooli is about people. Hooli is about innovative technology that makes a difference, transforming the world as we know it. Making the world a better place, through minimal message oriented transport layers. I firmly believe we can only achieve greatness... if first we achieve goodness.'

& Erlich: I know what binary is. Jesus Christ! I memorized the hexadecimal times tables when I was 14 writing machine code! Ok. Ask me what nine times F is. It’s fleventyfive.

& Hooli’s VP: Well, it’s like Gavin always says, “it takes change to make change.”

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& Gavin Belson: It’s weird. They always travel in groups of five. These programmers, there’s always a tall skinny white guy, short skinny Asian guy, fat guy with a ponytail, some guy with crazy facial hair and then an East Indian guy. It’s like they trade guys until they all have the right group.
    Spiritual advisor: You clearly have a great understanding of humanity.

& Richard: Ah, Gavin Belson just offered me three million dollars for Pied Piper.
    Peter Gregory: I’m prepared to give you three hundred thousand dollars.
    Richard: Peter Gregory just offered me 300, um... Did you say thousand dollars?
    Peter Gregory: For ten percent of your company.
    Gavin Belson: Ok, four million.
    Peter Gregory: 200 thousand. For five percent.
    Richard: Huh? You just went down.
    Peter Gregory: No, you’re still valued at four million dollars. But you own ninety-five percent of a potential billion-dollar company. And not just that, I will help you build this company. I will introduce you to the people you need to know and provide the counsel that you need. I will take a small piece, but the company will belong to you. Not Gavin Belson.

& Monica: And what do you think Hooli is going to do with it?
    Richard: I don’t know. That’s their business.
    Monica: This is your baby. Do you even realize the impact that a compression this good could have on the world?.. Getting any file on your mobile phone in an instant... Navigation data for self-driving cars... mobile medical imagery... all transmitting with no quality loss. This is game-changing. Don’t you want to be in the driver’s seat when that happens? You really want to just turn it all over to Hooli and walk away?

& Richard: Maybe Peter Gregory’s right. Maybe this could be huge. Look, guys, for thousands of years guys like us have gotten the shit kicked out of us. But now, for the first time, we are living in an era where we can be in charge and build empires. We could be the vikings of our day.

& Richard: I know it’s stupid but, um... I just want to say, uh, I’d like for this company to be different than Hooli and Goolybib and all the rest, you know? Like, let’s like not turn this into a corporate cult with bike meetings and voluntary retreats that are actually mandatory. And claiming to make the world a better place all the time. Let’s, uh, let’s just think different. Don’t think different. That’s     Apple. Uh, umm... Let’s just... Let’s just do it.
    Big Head: That’s Nike, man.

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