Category: 4. Season One

“Optimal Tip-to-Tip Efficiency” (S01E08)

Desperate to avoid litigation after the brawl, TechCrunch offers Pied Piper a ticket straight through to the final Battlefield stage, but the team is despondent after watching the Nucleus presentation and learning that not only is Hooli’s Weissman compression quality score 2.89, the exact same as theirs, but they also have a number of additional…

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“Proof of Concept” (S01E07)

The team arrives at the Battlefield, however Pied Piper still isn’t finished, and Richard is having trouble concentrating due to the presence of an ex-girlfriend at the conference. Dinesh meets an attractive girl, Charlotte (AJ Michalka), who appears to be proficient in Java, but when Gilfoyle tells him that the Java code was in fact…

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“Third Party Insourcing” (S01E06)

Pied Piper is nearing completion, but Richard is having serious issues coding the cloud-based integration modules for the application, so much so that Jared, Gilfoyle, Erlich and Dinesh pressure him into hiring Kevin “The Carver”, an Adderall-addicted teenaged programmer with a specialty in cloud integration. Gilfoyle’s new satanistic girlfriend, Tara (Milana Vayntrub), visits the incubator,…

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“Signaling Risk” (S01E05)

Erlich hires a convicted felon and graffiti artist, Chuy, to create a new logo for Pied Piper and to paint it on the incubator garage, but Chuy’s creation depicts Dinesh having sexual intercourse with the Statue of Liberty because he believes Dinesh is of Latin descent. Pied Piper gains entry to the TechCrunch Startup Battlefield,…

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“Fiduciary Duties” (S01E04)

Peter assigns an attorney, Ron, to the Pied Piper venture, who accidentally lets slip that Richard’s project is only one of eight file compression suites that Peter invests in. This impacts Richard, who suddenly panics that he has no sense of where the company should go and what it should be doing. Meanwhile, Big Head…

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“Articles of Incorporation” (S01E03)

Richard and Jared discover that the Pied Piper business name is already in use by an irrigation enterprise in Gilroy, California. While Jared, Dinesh and Gilfoyle begin brainstorming new names for the application, Erlich decides to find a name by setting off to a vision quest at Sonora Desert, which results on Erlich having a…

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