Meanwhile Hooli's founder and former CEO, Gavin Belson has left the tech world to write a Roman à clef. Gilfoyle must manage former Hooli employee John, who may be his equal. Although she has no desire to join female empowerment groups, it includes her former boss Laurie and other influential movers and shakers. Monica, after successfully negotiating Pied Piper's buyout of Hooli, seeks to join a 'Women in Tech' forum. Richard takes Dinesh's advice to assert his role as CEO.
Although valuable for his tech and leadership skills, Ethan publicly mocks Richard by bringing up embarrassing incidents from his days as a new Hooli employee. Pied Piper has taken over former tech giant and rival Hooli, and with it Richard's former manager, Ethan.
While Gavin is participating in a triathlon, Richard and the Pied Piper inner circle rush to the Hooli board members to get them to sign the buyout. Horrified, Jared then approaches Pied Piper with the details of the buyout which reveals how little Hooli is valued these days. Gavin declines and leaves to use the information he learned from Richard to buy out Gwart's app. Richard spills his troubles to Gavin and proposes they help each other. Gavin's multi-billion dollar search giant is on the verge of collapse. Distraught, Richard walks through the park only to bump into his arch-rival Gavin Belson, head of Hooli. However, Colin ends up selling his game to Maximo. The move was meant to gain enough money to move Pied Piper forward without Colin and his data-collecting online game, their main source of income. Richard declines the $1 billion offer from Maximo much to the chagrin of Dinesh and Gilfoyle. If he declines, Maximo tells Richard "it will be very bad for you." Richard then meets with Maximo who makes it clear to Richard that he wants to invest in his company but they will mine data. Richard goes to the Hacker Hostel to ask Jared for advice, but once Richard insults Gwart, Jared chases him out of the house. Richard asks Monica for advice, but she leaves the decision to him. The next day, he offers Richard $1 billion for 10% of Pied Piper. Richard later speaks with Maximo Reyes, a shady Chilean businessman who is interested in Pied Piper. At a charity event, Monica and Richard bump into Laurie Bream, who is now the CEO of YaoNet and has moved the company to the US.
Tracy tries to assign Gilfoyle five coders, but he insists on doing all the work himself. Pied Piper's head of HR, Tracy, tricks Gilfoyle into catching up on his backlog of work. All of Hooli's major apps have been consumed by Amazon and Gavin is given three months by his board members to recoup their investments. He instead wants to help Gwart, the eccentric new programmer at the Hacker Hostel. Jared resigns from Pied Piper, now that the company has significantly changed.
Jared returns to the Hacker Hostel where he meets Gwart, a new programmer.Ĭolin has inserted ads into Gates of Galloo. However, Colin turns it around on them and impresses his board members by presenting the API as a fantastic tool for data mining. Wanting Colin out, Richard and Jared blackmail him with the indexed conversations which detail Colin's terrible behavior which includes stealing from the company. Richard has Gilfoyle use his new compression and inference API to index all the recorded conversations. Hooli's merger with Amazon is approaching and Gavin is furious to learn that their properties will be rebranded. Richard learns from Colin that they are indeed collecting data from their customers, including recording their conversations via their gamer headsets. Jared begins to worry about all the new changes, as he is no longer working with Richard closely and his office is on the other side of building. Richard is questioned by Congress regarding data collection and promises that Pied Piper will never collect its user data and that they are creating a decentralized internet. See also: List of Silicon Valley episodes No.
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