Silicon Valley (2014–…): Season 1, Episode 7 - Proof of Concept - full transcript

The core compression algorithm is optimal.

All the test cases ran optimal.

The Weissman Score is optimal.
Looks like Nucleus is optimal.

Good. Good.

Congratulations, guys.

- Oh, yeah.
- A dunk.

Richard, the ingestion engine is ready
for testing. Have you seen Richard?

He's in there, having a little trouble
with his personal ingestion engine.

Still? It's been an hour.
He's gotta get this done.

Oh, he's got his laptop in there,
on top of his lap.

Hey, Richard.



RICHARD: Don't talk to me while
I'm in the bathroom please.

Well, snap it off, we gotta go.

RICHARD: I know.
Just don't talk to me while I'm in here.

It's weird.

Oh, my God.
Jared's been back from that island

for a whole day
and he didn't get any toilet paper?

Are you serious? ls Jared out there?

I thought you didn't want me to talk to you

while you were in the bathroom.
Make up your mind.

RICHARD: You know what?
Just get away from the door, please.

ERLICH: Friday, the pool cleaner comes.

- Do you understand?
- Yes.

And tomorrow is trash day
so make sure all the cans are out front.

Yes.



Now, you are under no circumstances
to order any movie on demand,

adult or otherwise.

Yes.

Okay, has anything that I've
just said confused you?

- Yes.
- God damn it!

Jesus, Cher.
Are you bringing your whole closet?

I'm a pro, Dinesh. I
won't apologize for it.

I dress according to the moods
that I sense in the room.

As such, I must have options.

We all packed and ready to go?

ERLICH: We can take my car
but gas is on the company.

(DOOR CLOSES)

RICHARD: Hello? Did everyone leave?

No.

RICHARD: What? Oh.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa...

(THEME MUSIC PLAYING)

GILFOYLE: I don't know
how you read your screen in the car.

It makes me sick as a dog.

RICHARD: I'm okay
as long as I don't think about it.

Besides, the presentation is tomorrow.

GILFOYLE: So if you just don't think
about it, it really doesn't bother you

to be staring at the screen
when the car's moving

- and turning and you're all queasy...
- Oh, God! (VOMITING)

- ERLICH: Gilfoyle.
- (COUGHING)

GILFOYLE: See, I knew it bothered you.
Fucking liar.

(RICHARD RETCHING)

JARED: So I'm a little behind,
being stuck on that island for four days,

but I think I'm on top of everything.

Okay, uh, give me your IDs
and I'll go register us...

There you are.
Got your credentials and wristbands

for the walk through at 4:00 today.

Uh, walk through?

Yeah, basically,
it's a sound check for the competition.

Uh, yeah, we didn't know about that.

Did I not tell you about the walk through?

I am so sorry.

Uh, that's why I'm here. Peter's on safari

with Lorne Michaels and Kanye West
until next week

so, I can put all of my
attention on you guys for once.

I am so sorry. I thought that I talked
to you guys about the walk...

Gentlemen, welcome to the big show.

TechCrunch motherfucking Disrupt.

Okay, guys,
this place is a vortex of distraction.

Normally the tech world is 2% women.

Guys, these next three days, 15%.

It's a goddamn meat market.

MONICA: I need you to focus.

How we do here is the entire future
of your company.

Don't screw it all up now.

We have to knock them dead
in the preliminaries tomorrow

so we can move on to the finals on Friday.

I have a question. The program says
that Dan Melcher is judging our round.

Is there any way to get him removed?

Not unless there's a conflict of interest.

Well, there may be. I did have
sexual intercourse with his wife.

What? It was three years ago.

So one of the guys judging us
wants to fucking kill you?

Maybe. I don't know if he found out.

Either way, Richard, you may have to
present instead of me so be prepared.

What, me? Present? No.

We may be fine. We may be totally fine.

We also may be totally fucked.

I'll let you know either way.

I'm gonna go network. Don't approach me.

I don't want to present.
Besides, I'm not even done with the demo.

Okay, Richard, you need to go
to the hotel right now and finish.

- You already checked us into the hotel?
- Yeah. Yeah.

RICHARD: Okay, uh,
I'm gonna do this module by module.

Dinesh, you built the edge video player
so I'm gonna start with you first, okay?

Okay, you guys set up the booth, okay?

Um, I think it's this way.

You think?

- A few flyers, that's all we have?
- (HELICOPTER WHIRRING)

Yeah, I think it is.

AUTOMATED VOICE:
Hello, what's your name?

Oh, wow, Microdrone. They just
closed $17 million in seed funding.

(CLATTERING)

Hi. Hello. Excuse me.

Pied Piper? You guys are competing
in the Startup Battlefield, right?

Everyone has been talking
about your compression rate.

I mean, it is supposed to be sick.

Yeah.

Anyway, you must be great with Java

and I just cannot seem
to figure out this stupid bug. Do you mind?

I'll be back.

Thank you.

If we integrate one module every two hours
we should be in great shape...

Richard, follow me.
(WHISPERING) Follow me. Follow me.

- All right. See you at the hotel.
- See you.

DINESH: Very soon, I hope.

Hey, man. Just wanted to say good luck.

Okay, thanks. But what's with all the...

Sorry. I just can't be seen talking to you,
you know?

Hooli people all over the place.

I don't know, man, I'm just really into
this whole rest and vest life, you know,

- way more than I thought I would be.
- Mmm.

I just don't want to rock the boat.

Oh, hey, did I tell you?
I'm getting a boat.

- Wow.
- And a boat guy to take care of it.

You have to have a boat guy.

Wow, yeah, you've gotta have a boat guy...

(CHUCKLES AWKWARDLY) If you have a boat.

Hey, um, you know that girl, right?

Sherry, I think her name was.
She said you guys went to school together.

Uh, okay, yeah.

I saw her at the Valleywag
party last night,

which was crazy, by the way. Dude, there
must've been like 12 girls there.

- Holy shit. (CHUCKLES)
- Nuts.

Anyway, um, she said you guys
went out a couple times

and then, uh, she dumped you
and you became obsessed with her?

What? What? She said I was obsessed?

She said obsessed.

Uh, that's bullshit,
'cause I think we went out two times.

Eh, it was nothing.
So, how could I be obsessed? That's...

No, you're going down!
Nucleus is gonna crush Wide Diaper.

You never should've said no
to my man, Gavin Belson.

Okay.

(MOUTHING)

Seeded quite a few new companies.

Spinder. It's like Tinder
but for spinsters.

Elderly women looking for sex.

(MOUTHING)

There's this girl who's walking around,
saying that I'm obsessed with her.

Now, that just really pisses me off.

That's fascinating.
Let's just forget about it, okay?

Yeah.

I mean it's... it's just
so fucked up, right?

I mean, I barely remember her.

And it's just so insulting to have someone
walking around spreading lies about you.

Right? I wonder who she's working with.

Like I wonder who she's here with
because if she's telling her coworkers,

then that's a whole 'nother
group of people I gotta worry about.

Richard, you don't have
to worry about anything

- except for Pied Piper right now.
- Yeah, I know.

We have less than 24
hours till the preliminaries.

- No one's worrying, that's the thing. Perfect.
- Perfect.

Okay, her.

She used the word "obsessed," Dinesh.

- "Obsessed."
- Richard, I don't care.

Neither do I. That's the entire point.

(CHUCKLES SOFTLY)

I'm just gonna check her
lnstagram real quick.

Because if she's posting
comments about me being obsessed...

- I mean, I can't just ignore that.
- (SIGHING DEEPLY)

Would you be interested in a device
that links to your smartphone

and lets you know, even before it happens,
whether you're having a panic attack

- or a heart attack?
- Yeah, yeah.

Okay, here's how Panic-a-Tech works.

You wear this on your finger all day
and it tracks your vitals.

Or if that's too embarrassing,
there's also a Bluetooth suppository

and that goes right where you think it goes.
And that comes with a retrieval kit.

Was he like, "Bro, you're my bro,"

or was he like, "I wanna shoot you in the face
and watch you bleed out all over the stage

"'cause you fucked my wife, you cocksuck?"

Right in the middle. It was like...

Huh.

What happened? How's it going at the hotel?

Weird. He switched to meta-data extraction
and now wants to see you.

Meta-data? Already? Makes no sense.

DINESH: He seems very distracted.

Okay, guys, urn, since we're kind of
playing from behind here

I put together a little secret weapon.

I, um... I went through the entire list
of conference participants

and I found images and I found bios
and I printed them out

so we have them all in one place.

- Why did you do that?
- Uh, okay.

Who's this guy? Watch. He is...

(PHONE BEEPS)

Rick Smith, co-founder
of Crosscut Ventures.

How did you...

ID-Keen. It's this facial recognition app
that Monica put on our phones.

You just point it at anybody,
tells you who they are

and how important they
are to the conference.

(PHONES BEEPING)

(SCOFFS) You're not showing up at all.

Yeah, maybe I'm not getting a...
No, I'm getting a signal.

Okay. Um, well...

Ooh, Jared, Jared, uh,
recycling's over there.

Hey, so what's the deal?
Does the judge know or not?

I don't know, Monica. He's toying with me.

Or maybe he's not.
I can't fucking figure it out.

MONICA: Erlich, you need to stop this.
His wife is here.

Grow a pair and talk to
her, find out for sure.

Why don't you grow a pair
and I'll talk to her?

Hmm.

What?

Hey-

Do you happen to know Java?

Are you kidding? It's like my specialty.

Will you help me?

Oh, it would be my honor.

(DOOR OPENING)

Yes?

Oh, sorry. Um, I must not
have the right room.

- I'm looking for Dan Melcher.
- Yeah, that's us.

Oh, it is? Okay.

I was looking to speak with his wife.

That's me. I'm, well, his new
wife, we just got married.

Oh, congratulations.

Uh, what happened with Madelyn?

- You're a friend of Dan's?
- Yeah.

We've... We have a common interest...

- Uh, many common interests.
- Yeah.

Well, she was a nightmare.

Pills, in and out of rehab.

Had all of these disgusting affairs.

You know, the divorce nearly killed Dan.

Really? Disgusting affairs.

Well, I... I feel terrible.

No, it's fine. He's put it behind him.

All Of it?

- I mean, every aspect of it?
- Mmm-hmm.

Well, that is... That is great to hear.

RICHARD: What if she's spreading this lie
to everyone at this conference?

I mean, honestly, Gilfoyle...

Richard, stop talking about this
or I have to punch you in the face.

Fuck. it is huge.

- Uh...
"Very, very huge.

Check, one-two, two,
tsetse fly, tsetse fly.

Hey, how's the demo coming?

Um, we're getting there. (SIGHS)

Uh, definitely... Getting there.

Gentlemen, I bring good tidings.

Turns out that Melcher
is divorced, remarried

and has put the previous relationship
behind him completely.

Problem solved.

That's great.

It sure is, Richard, it sure as hell is.

(CHUCKLES)

Look at these poor fuckers. They don't
even know what's about to hit 'em.

The hammer of God.

I am so sorry! I am so sorry.
I thought you guys were gonna come get me

and... (STAMMERING) And I'm sorry.

- Wait, Jared, what are you doing here?
- What?

- Who's watching the booth?
- Yeah.

- I thought that maybe Monica could...
- MONICA: Ooh.

She's not in the company.
We need her here. That's the thing.

All right, everybody, uh, this run-through
is for essential personnel only,

essential only.

Oh.

- We need someone in the booth is the thing.
- Right.

You're essential to the booth.

JARED: Right.

All right, each team will have
six minutes for presentation and demo,

at which point the judges
will ask a few questions...

Uh, do you mind if I break in here,
just one question.

Uh, are the judges allowed
to send us through

to the finals immediately after we present

or do we have to wait
until everyone else has gone?

Well, I'm just saying
what everybody's thinking.

AUTOMATED VOICE:
Hello, what's your name?

- Uh, excuse me, no thank you.
- ...a free video of you

- at TechCrunch Disrupt.
- Uh, no thank you.

Nathan. Are you Nathan Zimmerman,
CEO of Flingual?

I... I... Whoever's doing
this, no thank you.

Yeah, I think we got a dead zone,
an audio dead zone right here.

Listen to this.

Hear that? Compared to...

Okay, here's what I want,
as soon as the music comes up...

MAN: Music?

I want you to hit me with a spotlight, barn!
And a hard spot.

Better yet, do you have
those spotlights that...

(MAKES DRONING NOISE)
...come up from the ground,

like in Pride Fighting.

I can check.

Okay, so two of those, one on each side
and then one in the center

so that it casts my shadow behind me,
like a giant looking over his own shoulder.

- Do you have any wind machines.
- (HUMMING)

ERLICH: I'm gonna need two of those...

Are you humming to yourself?

Was I?

Uh...

You know, honestly,
I may have found the perfect woman.

Whoa. What? Who? Who?

She's in the booth right
next to us, Charlotte.

She's not even physically my type,
she has blonde hair

and these stupid pink streaks
that doesn't seem to be dominant at all.

However, I think I'm in love.

Whoa! (CHUCKLES)

She invited me to her room
to watch Cloud Atlas later tonight.

Oh, yeah,
that means she wants you to lay her.

Is that definitive?

I mean, nobody can watch more
than like a minute of that film.

So what's the deal? I mean, is she hot?

Yeah, I mean, she's attractive,

but almost every woman is attractive.
It was her mind.

She wrote this Java method that was the most
beautiful thing I've ever seen in my life.

Elegant, tight.

There's just something so hot
about a woman that can code like that.

You know, I just want to

- crawl in her frontal lobe and...
- (SNICKERING)

What's up?

You know I wrote that code, right?

No, this code was on her system.

A banged up 15-inch MacBook Pro
with shitty stickers on it?

Everyone here has a beat up
15-inch MacBook Pro...

With a 1.3 chip and only two gigs of RAM?

She doesn't know Java. I wrote that code.

- You said you were in love with her mind.
- Oh, fuck.

You realize what's going on, right?

It's not her you're sexually attracted to,
it's my code.

Shut the... That is the most
disgusting fucking thing I've ever heard.

Just face it, Dinesh,
you're gay for my code, you're code gay.

No! No, I'm into her.
Her, okay? Fuck your code!

You'd like to fuck my code, wouldn't you?

Hey, would you like to masturbate
to the subroutine I just wrote?

No! It's... I'm... I'm...

And then I'll sort of close
right here in the center

with a confidence and poise that, well,

they probably won't have seen
up until this point.

And then at that point we've got some photos
that we're gonna throw up on the big screen.

- Photos?
- Yeah, you know, just a few.

Gandhi, MLK, me as an inquisitive child.

Richard, could you please?

Oh, yes, sorry. I'll just plug it in here.

(COMPUTER CHIMES)

No! Don't!

- Don't!
- RICHARD: Oh, shit...

SHERRY: Oh, what the fuck?
RICHARD: Shit.

Oh, she's here.

Mmm.

- (KEYS BEEPING)
- Oh, shit, it's frozen. It's frozen.

ERLICH: That is not me, obviously.

He's obsessed with me. I'm sorry.

(OMINOUS MUSIC ON TV)

Hey, what's wrong?

I'm just a little nervous
'cause you're so beautiful.

Oh?

Random question...

So you didn't write any of that Java code?

Uh-uh.

But I write all of our tweets and we
have like a couple hundred followers.

Couple hundred's pretty.

Oh, let me move this.

Oh, that's the code your, uh, friend wrote.

- Yeah, it is.
- It's really good, huh?

It's fine. I don't care about it.

Mmm, there we go.

On, fuck. (GASPS)

RICHARD: Come on, focus, focus.

(EXHALES)

(PHONE BEEPS)

Richard's not gonna finish, is he?

He'll finish, Gilfoyle, he has to.

Are you okay?

Yeah, I'm fine.

I knew it. You couldn't do it.

Please shut up. Shut up.

Why is it that every time
I'm about to have sex with a lady,

he's all up in there somehow?

Finally, just us. (CHUCKLES)
Guys, this round is on me.

Hey, Jared. There you guys go.

- To Pied Piper. Hmm?
- To Pied Piper.

Hear, hear.

- Yeah, drink it up.
- (GROANS)

- Mmm.
- But it's not gonna change who you are.

Monica, can I speak to you for a minute?

Yeah.

- RICHARD: No, Sherry, it has to be now!
- Oh, shit.

Okay, look, we need to talk.

You keep telling people
I'm obsessed with you.

Richard, why don't you
just take a step back...

It's not true... No, no, no, let me finish.

Okay, did I put your picture up on the
big screen in the auditorium? Yes.

But that's because
I was showing you to my friends

to prove a point that
I'm not obsessed with you.

- Richard, I'm gonna go now.
- No, I'm not obsessed with you, Sherry!

I'm...

I'm not.

That guy Richard I was telling you about
just totally freaked out on me.

Yeah, the obsessed guy.

- Where are you?
- JARED: You've been doing this ever since

- we arrived at the conference.
- Which elevators?

You really think that you can come between
me and Richard Hendricks?

We're partners, okay,
and I've devoted every second

of my waking life for the past
two months to him, okay?

I am devoted to him and to the precious
thing that we're building together!

I'm his partner. I can
tell when he's vomiting...

- Uh, what? No.
- JARED: because he's nervous...

- Never mind, Kate, I'm fine.
- ...or when he's vomiting because he's sick

or when he's vomiting
because he had cilantro, which he loves

but he shouldn't have
because it makes him...

I had no idea that you felt this way.
I mean it, I am so sorry.

I mean, I'm obsessed with her...

Richard, can I talk to you for a second?

Uh, okay.

I owe you an apology. I was way off base.

Well, yeah, you were.

He cleared it all up for me.

- RICHARD: Jared? Really?
- Yeah. He's your partner, right?

Yeah, he is. One of many. (SIGHS)

Probably too many.

How could I not have seen this?

Obviously you're not obsessed with me.

Richard, it's none of my business,
but be safe.

- Okay?
- Okay.

Of course I'm safe. I backup my
whole system like five times a day.

So... Uh, Jared, hey,

thank you.

- For what?
- Uh, you know, everything.

I feel like we don't appreciate you enough,
so thank you.

(GASPS)

Are you... Are you crying?

-(SOBS)

Uh, don't do that. Don't cry.

Oh, shit. I gotta get back to work.
I... I need to focus here.

We should all go.

All right, I'm taking care of this one.

But when we win this fuckin' thing,
Richard, you're buying the next round.

Yeah.

Oh, no.

We're with the conference,
is there any sort of discount?

- Kind of break you can...
- Mmm-mmm.

No. All right.

- Hello, again.
- Oh, hi.

You know, that was really sweet of you
to be so concerned about Dan.

He really has been through hell.

Well, it's the least I could do.

So how did you know Madelyn again?

(EXHALES) Oh, uh, long story.

Yeah?

I have to admit, I'm curious.

You know what, keep it open.

(EXHALES DEEPLY)

Have you ever cared too much?

People, are you ready?

Are you ready
for the ultimate tech startup competition?

Let me hear it.

Disrupt!

- (MILD CHEERING)
- MAN: Disrupt.

Hello. My name is Saeed Jobrani.

I am the CEO of lmmediBug.

And we're hereto revolutionize

the way you report bugs
on your mobile platform.

Happin! will revolutionize location-based
mobile news aggregation as you know it.

We're making the world a better place,
through Paxos algorithms

for consensus protocols.

And we're making the world a better place

through software-defined data centers
for cloud computing.

A better place through canonical data
models to communicate between endpoints.

A better place through scalable,

fault-tolerant distributed databases
with ACID transactions.

And we are truly local mobile social.

And we're completely So-Mo-Lo.

And we're Mo-Lo-So.

We're Lo-Mo-So, bro.

We were So-Lo-Mo but now we're Mo-Lo-So.

No, Mo-So-Lo. No...

(INAUDIBLE)

MAN: You want me to get
a water or something?

- Yeah, drink this.
- Here.

- So we're all good?
- We're all great.

I killed it.
Our Weissman score on all tests, 2.89.

Right at the theoretical limit.

Yeah, all the edge modules are humming.

Uh, even on mobile.
They can throw anything at us.

Great. Well, good luck.
I'm gonna go find my seat.

Um, except 3D video.

What?

3D video's still a little hinky.

Erlich better steer them away
from that just to be safe.

Where the hell is Erlich?

He wasn't with you guys this morning?

Rather than heating an entire room,

HumanHeater is a microwave technology

that can heat the surface
of a person's skin instead,

potentially saving
millions in heating costs

and helping the environment,
thereby making the world a better place.

MAN: Judges.

Uh...

Okay, so,

you want to heat people with microwaves,
is that right?

That can't be safe.

That's a great question
and trust me, it is very, very safe.

I've been working on it for 15 years.

I don't trust you and it can't be safe.

And even if it was, I don't think
you could ever sell the public on this.

Thank you.

I think when people
see the savings on their utility bill

and when they see how it saves
the environment, they will be sold.

Microwaves? Are you kidding me?

Man, they are brutal.

All right, let's light this candle.

Where the hell have you been?

Uh, there's been some developments.
You know how I fucked Melcher's old wife?

- I fucked his new wife, too.
- What?

ERLICH: Uh, don't worry,
he's not gonna find out.

I left way before he got back
last night and then I didn't

go back this morning until 20 minutes
after he had left.

You went back?

- How many times did you fuck this woman?
- The old wife or the new wife?

- The new wife.
- Last night or this morning?

Erlich, what were you thinking?
This is kind of a big day today.

Relax, he's not gonna find out.
She's not gonna tell him.

How the fuck do you know that?

Because she'd have to be crazy to tell him
and I asked her point blank if she was crazy

and she swore to me, no, she's not crazy.

- Pied Piper, you're up.
- ERLICH: Let's do it.

The microwaves only penetrate
the top layer of skin cells.

I don't believe you. It can't be safe.

Thank you.

I've been testing it
on these guys all winter and they're fine.

Let me just demonstrate it to assure you...

- No! No!
- No! Please!

No one is ever going to buy one of these.

Ever.

That was HumanHeater.

Next up, Executive Chairman
and Chief Visionary

- Erlich Bachman presenting Pied Piper.
- (APPLAUSE)

(DRAMATIC MUSIC)

Since the dawn of time,

mankind hath sought
to make things smaller, but until now,

- no man...
- (SCREAMING)

DAN: You son of a bitch!

- (BLOWS LANDING)
- Jesus Christ! Everyone, remain calm.

Stay in your seats!
Everything is under control!

- (YELLING)
- Lights?

I think he knows.

Security to main stage.

(RAP MUSIC PLAYING)