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Silicon Valley 2×7

& Gavin: What is failure? To the ignorant or those in conventional industries, the recent Nucleus glitch may seem a failure... purely in the negative sense. But we, in this valley, all know that «failures» just like this one... are really stepping stones. To bring us the iPhone, Steve Jobs first had to bring us... the Newton. To bring us Facebook... Mark Zuckerberg also had to bring us Wirehog. Before he brought us Digg, Kevin Rose... had to bring us a whole lot of useless things... and after Digg as well, for that matter. The point being... what those in dying business sectors call failure, we, in tech, know to be pre-greatness.
    Board member: Are you telling us that the disastrous results of your Nucleus live stream are a good thing?
    Gavin: No, I’m not telling you that... History is telling you that.

& Russ: I’ve managed to lose over $200 million...
    Richard: Wait. Didn’t you start out with $1.2 billion? I mean, you’re not exactly broke, right?
    Russ: I might as well be. $986 million? I’m not a billionaire anymore, Richard. I’m a nine-hundred-and-eighty-sixionaire, which isn’t even a fucking thing.

& Dinesh: Okay, I... I know Karen is out of my league. Okay? She’s practically not my species. I’m a guppy, and I’m trying to mate with a dolphin. You guys are bottom-feeders. You’re like the fish that swim into other fish’s mouths and eat bacteria off their teeth.
    Erlich: There’s no such fish. You made that fish up.

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& Richard: Gilfoyle, please don’t tell me... that you hacked into EndFrame’s system.
    Gilfoyle: Okay. I won’t tell you that.
    Richard: W-Well, did you hack into it or not?
    Gilfoyle: My feeling is... if you’re the CEO of a company and you’re dumb enough to leave your login info on a Post-it note on your desk, while the people that you fucking ripped off are physically in your office, it’s not a hack. It’s barely social engineering. It’s more like natural selection.
    Dinesh: Fucking ninja.

& Monica: Holy shit! Okay, I was definitely not in the room while this happened.

& Richard: I... I don’t understand. How does Intersite have all this money to throw around?
    Erlich: It’s pornography, Richard.
    Jared: Adult content has driven more important tech adaption than anything. The first fiction ever published on a printing press was an erotic tale. And from there, it was Super 8 film... Polaroid, home video, digital, video on demand...
    Monica: Credit card verification systems, Snapchat.
    Jared: Pornography accounts for 37% of all Internet traffic.
    Erlich: 38 when I’m on it.

& Gilfoyle: It’s time to walk the left-hand path, Richard.

& Molly Kendall: The statistics here are clear. Protecting existing revenue streams... in the current climate is no longer a viable option. We must run forward simply to stay in place, by doing what the adult industry has always done, lead. Pioneering cutting-edge interfaces across new device platforms like Oculus and iWhack will be the key to our survival as an industry.

& Gilfoyle: Funny thing about lost items... always in the last place you look.

& Molly Kendall: ...In a week, I’ll review and award the contract to whoever does a better job. What?
    Richard: «Who... whomever.»
    Molly Kendall: What?
    Richard: «Whomever does the better...» But okay, yeah. Never mind.
    Gilfoyle: Welcome to the left-hand path, my friend.

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