Trailer for Bravo's Start-Ups: Silicon Valley

This show had some potential but instead it's just another reality tv junk show--except this time it's about "us". Now I know what people in Jersey feel like.<p>IMO one of the larges inhibitors of entrepreneurship is a lack of confidence that is instilled by the education system. A thoughtful show about Silicon Valley could show how people from all different walks of life come here to build their dreams. It could inspire kids interested in technology to learn, it could show them that all you really need is an internet connection. Instead it shows that the typical tech entrepreneur is white(-ish), good-looking, outgoing and a party animal.

Fantastic: everything I hate about TV, combined with everything I hate about the industry I work in.<p>I've met one of the people in the show and I think it's fair to say that this is about the tech industry in the same way that a show featuring publishing PR agents is a show about writing books- which is to say, not at all.<p>Should the situation arise, I will actively avoid working with anyone 'starring' in this show.

A model, an up-and-coming film impresario, 4 social media marketers, and (I think) this guy:<p><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=dw5ight" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=dw5ight</a><p>One assumes he's the one shouting "Negative cycles? Bellmans algorithm or Dyson's?!"<p>Dwight cofounded Carsabi, which acqui-failed into Facebook presumably after getting zorched with C&#38;Ds from Craigslist. So you have Craigslist to blame for this show too; if Carsabi hadn't taken off, who'd be writing the code on this show? DAMN YOU AGAIN, CRAIG NEWMARK!!!1!1!

Relevant: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6IQ_FOCE6I" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6IQ_FOCE6I</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hh3U7C0xLW4" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hh3U7C0xLW4</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exmwSxv7XJI" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exmwSxv7XJI</a><p>More seriously I wonder why random signals that appear to be noise but if noticed are actually quite pertinent to predicting trends have such a great effect on people.<p>Example follows:<p>Kennedy later claimed he knew the rampant stock speculation of the late 1920s would lead to a crash. It is said that he knew it was time to get out of the market when he received stock tips from a shoe-shine boy<p>Source: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_P._Kennedy,_Sr" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_P._Kennedy,_Sr</a>.<p>For example if my mom came to me with an investment decision my response would be a big fat no - might even go out and look at it for a short. If my hairdresser recommended a stock to me - I'd feel immediately like selling. These are by definition low signal events that should be classified as pure noise - but they seem to be a rather useful thought model.<p>So party like it's 1997 - get in and get out.

I was squatting in the office hermine and her crew were in while some of this was filming, and it was absolutely fascinating to peer over the shoulder of the director and P/A's, and see just how much of this was scripted and the various re-takes and whatnot.<p>You always have this feeling about "reality TV" that it's fake, but it was rather eye opening to see it firsthand.

I fully plan on avoiding this until it goes away. Considering the fact that they'll completely miss both the uneducated reality TV audience (too much nerdiness) and the nerd audience (no need for explanation), I don't plan on that taking too long.

I think I threw up in my mouth a little.

duh - every character is white. fail. one of the women is slightly Indian looking but still.

&#62; While trying to find balance amidst their complicated social network they discover that in the fast paced world of Silicon Valley success and failure can come and go with just a simple keystroke.<p>oh the drama

&#62; There's the bloggers, the engineers, then the investors. None of it would work if there wasn't each part.<p>One of these things is not like the others.

This show is the air that inflates tech bubbles.

I hate this trailer too, but I bet some of that is because it makes my illusion of individuality shrink.

Video overloaded? or region locked? "This content is currently unavailable" - Australia

Punch me in the mother fucking face.