I haven't watched the episode, but I've been in a situation where I had to make the choice between taking the high road or getting money. For better or worse I've always made the choice to take the high road, and I've never regretted it.<p>Money only goes so far, and beyond a certain point it just doesn't matter if you make a little more. I'd rather keep my dignity and contribute positively to the world.
As the article notes, it's weird Silicon Valley went with a Chilean VC instead of a more direct Saudi VC/Softbank analogue. Would that have been too on the nose?
• Items surrounding Gilfoyle’s workstation include “Shadowrun” and “Magic the Gathering: Ravnica” from the Dungeons & Dragons world.<p>Actually, Shadowrun is an RPG set in a cyberpunk world completely unrelated to D&D and Magic is a card game set in a fantasy universe also completely unrelated to D&D (though Magic and D&D have the same publisher).<p>Sorry, I just had to say that.
Anyone know why the show is ending? It's one of the few that I genuinely enjoy each season and am very disappointed to see this year to be the finale.
More interesting to me was the Gilfoyle subplot of trying to get him to catch up on his work and sticking him with a team. That was just sheer brilliance, and having seen similar things come out in real job life, only made it more hilarious.
I thought this was a homage to Yahoo offering Zuckerberg 1 billion for Facebook early on. To which he replied something along the lines of “I may never have an idea this good ever again”
I once pitched at an investor meeting, and the only bite I had, offered me all the money I wanted, at great terms.<p>He had a "warehouse of Chinese developers" and would simply throw 10 developers at it working on the exact same thing, and use the best code of the 10. That was his pitch.<p>Needless to say, I said no.
HBO clip from the episode: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xabrjq14pnw" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xabrjq14pnw</a>