{"id":4995,"date":"2014-04-28T08:24:47","date_gmt":"2014-04-28T13:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdtimes.com\/?page_id=4995"},"modified":"2014-05-19T14:19:21","modified_gmt":"2014-05-19T19:19:21","slug":"features","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sdtimes.com\/features\/","title":{"rendered":"Features"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Gentlemen, welcome to the big show,\u201d Erlich says as the Pied Piper team walks down \u201cstartup alley\u201d at TechCrunch Disrupt.\u00a0<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Episode seven serves as part one of \u201cSilicon Valley\u2019s\u201d two-part season finale, putting the pieces in motion for Pied Piper\u2019s big moment to end in colossal public failure. A well-shot cutaway between Nucleus and Pied Piper\u2019s \u201cburndown charts\u201d is a good barometer of how the projects are going. The Nucleus chart is displayed on a sleek mounted monitor in a state-of-the-art Hooli computer lab, and Pied Piper\u2019s chart is scribbled haphazardly on a whiteboard.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Peter Gregory\u2019s assistant Monica calls Disrupt a \u201cvortex of distraction,\u201d and in episode seven, \u201cProof of Concept,\u201d everyone is distracted by something.\u00a0 Richard, Dinesh and Gilfoyle are still working on the demo for Pied Piper\u2019s big presentation, but when Richard runs into a woman he \u201ctotally was NOT obsessed with\u201d in college, he gets a wee bit sidetracked.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><b style=\"color: #000000;\">(Last week on \u201cSilicon Valley\u201d:\u00a0<a style=\"color: #0071bc;\" href=\"http:\/\/sdt.bz\/71197\" target=\"_blank\">The gang gets lost in the cloud<\/a>)<\/b><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In a peculiar series of events like something out of a modern episode of \u201cSeinfeld,\u201d Richard stalks the woman\u2019s Instagram account online \u201cto make sure she\u2019s not telling people I\u2019m obsessed with her,\u201d then accidentally projects her photo on the auditorium big screen for everyone\u2014including her\u2014to see. Then Jared inadvertently convinces the woman that he and Richard are homosexual life partners, solving the problem so Richard can get back to work.\u00a0<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Mike Judge channeled Larry David this episode, and it was gold, Jerry! Gold!<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The vortex of distraction also sucked in Gilfoyle and Dinesh, who in their weekly subplot both end up helping the same girl write Java code for her app. Dinesh falls in love with her over \u201cthis Java method that was the most beautiful thing I\u2019ve ever seen in my life. Elegant, tight, there\u2019s just something so hot about a woman that can code like that.\u201d Except of course, Gilfoyle wrote the code. Poor Dinesh.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><\/p>\n<p>Read more:\u00a0<a style=\"color: #003399;\" href=\"http:\/\/sdt.bz\/71244#ixzz32BqxpPPz\">http:\/\/sdt.bz\/71244#ixzz32BqxpPPz<\/a><br \/>\nFollow us:\u00a0<a style=\"color: #0071bc;\" href=\"http:\/\/ec.tynt.com\/b\/rw?id=bxWAPUV5qr4BWWacwqm_6r&amp;u=sdtimes\" target=\"_blank\">@sdtimes on Twitter<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a style=\"color: #0071bc;\" href=\"http:\/\/ec.tynt.com\/b\/rf?id=bxWAPUV5qr4BWWacwqm_6r&amp;u=sdtimes\" target=\"_blank\">sdtimes on Facebook<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gentlemen, welcome to the big show,\u201d Erlich says as the Pied Piper team walks down \u201cstartup alley\u201d at TechCrunch Disrupt.\u00a0Episode seven serves as part one of \u201cSilicon Valley\u2019s\u201d two-part season finale, putting the pieces in motion for Pied Piper\u2019s big moment to end in colossal public failure. 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