TV Series #SiliconValley - the fazinantion of nerds to found a #startup ...

source: https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/60573-silicon-valley

The series is about a group of nerds creating a startup around a compression algorithm they developed. It is mentioned several times that compression is lossless and applicable to everything. Such a thing is not mathematically possible. It's a comedy series, so clichés are used and characters are exaggerated so their weaknesses can be used for jokes. Putting the fun aside, you still get a good insight into how hard it is to get funding even with a brilliant idea. Competitors try to copy your business model or hostilely take over your company. Of course, I can understand the fascination of being #CEO of your own company and that many people want to become like their role model Steve Jobs. However, for 99% of all nerds, the position of #CTO is much better suited and more in line with their skills. However, for 99% of all nerds, the position of CTO is much better suited and more in line with their skills. In the Incubator, for example, there is a Chinese man at the beginning with absurd ideas for an app, who then develops into a mafia boss over the course of the seasons. Well shown when you look behind the comedy though is the stress and the many failures and product changes you have to endure on the way up.

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