That’s a great satirical point to make about Silicon Valley. He’s just a lucky guy who got very rich and now believes he can do anything he wants. He’s not a mentor, and he’s not a shrewd investor. But while Diamantopoulos does his job to make Hanneman as repulsive as possible, it makes rooting for Pied Piper’s success much more difficult. Hanneman appears as a savior to Pied Piper, preventing the need to sell the company to Hooli and offering a way to contest the legal battle over intellectual property. Gawker lawsuit), but Season 2 brought in Russ Hanneman (Chris Diamantopoulos), a bracingly arrogant investor who made most of his money putting radio on the Internet (in case it wasn’t clear enough that he’s based on Mark Cuban).
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Season 2: Episode 3, “Bad Money” In the wake of Christopher Evan Welch’s tragic death, Silicon Valley needed to fill the void of billionaire characters modeled after actual entrepreneurs. (At least it attempts to rectify the problem of a terrible company logo.) But this episode, in which Erlich tries to convince a prominent convicted-felon-turned-graffiti-artist to design a new logo for Pied Piper, is surprisingly tone-deaf when dealing with two neighboring suburbs-wealthy Palo Alto, which contains Stanford University, and the more impoverished East Palo Alto. Season 1: Episode 5, “Signaling Risk” Most of *Silicon Valley'*s detail-oriented approach to life in the Bay Area is so accurate it would make anyone who grew up in the San Jose-San Francisco-Oakland tri-city area homesick.