Silicon Valley

Pardon me, is that seat taken?

Oh, Gavin.

Classic Gavin.

- Let's hope this sucks. - Oh, good. Monica made it just in time.

Carla, looks like you won't be the only woman in the house for a change.

Christ. One thing worse than being the only woman in a company

- is being one of only two. - Why's that?

Everybody puts this super-weird pressure on you to be friends.

- It's creepy. - Hey, did I miss it?

- No. - Good.

Monica, I'd like to introduce you to Carla.

Carla, Monica.

Monica, Carla.

- What's up? - Nice to meet you.

I knew you two would hit it off.

Hey. Monica?

It's starting.

Tonight, for the first time ever,

streaming live in 4K resolution over the internet,

UFC Fight Night, powered by Nucleus!

No networks. No more middleman. No bullshit.

We're bringing the fights straight to the fans.

We're cutting the cord forever with UFC Fight Pass, powered by Nucleus.

Tonight, you'll get ultimate fighting at the ultimate resolution.

Nucleus puts 4K UHD video

in a lossless compression chokehold

and forces the competition to tap out.

Oh!

- Who's Douchebag? - He sure likes to break stuff.

We are live in Las Vegas.

The picture looks amazing.

Man, Joe, this is a fight we've been looking forward to

for a long, long time.

Are we getting a contact high off Erlich,

or is the edge starting to warble?

No, I see it. Are they converting down to 24 frames?

The defense so far. Wow!

The jerkiness is not a Nucleus issue, right?

I mean, it's not going out to the world like that, is it?

I think it looks great.

You see that frame judder as the camera pans?

The picture's so blocky. It looks like Minecraft.

It doesn't make sense, it's supposed to be totally lossless.

Let me dump their bit stream to disk and take a look.

She's really smart.

But not afraid to be bawdy.

- Oh, my God. - They are so fucked.

Yeah, this is bad.

Attack with the left!

He's hurt! He's down!

He's hit! Oh!

It's frozen.

It's frozen.

It is all over!

Unbelievable!

I have never, in all my years of watching fighting,

seen a finishing combination more ferocious!

What a spectacular finish by Molina!

We're being told that the Nucleus live stream--

- Fuck! - ...may have cut out during that exchange.

If that is true, what a travesty.

Fuck!

Gavin Belson just shit everyone's pants.

He sure did. The encoding is totally underpowered to cover up their defects.

Nucleus just can't keep up with 4K live stream yet.

Hey. Could Pied Piper handle live 4K video?

I could deploy a live video stream that would be way better than theirs right now.

Jump on it. Now. Like, do our own live stream.

Partner with someone like Gavin did.

Look at you two.

Hold on. Live streaming's not really our primary business here.

Yeah, but beating Nucleus is. The blogs would go nuts.

We're built for it on my end.

If it's just me hosting seeds and manifests,

- I'm good on my end. - I'm prepared to brag about it

and release publicity.

Well, peer-to-peer delivery is good to go here. Let me know.

Oh, Carla, do you want to show Monica your work station?

No, thanks.

Okay, but Hooli had a deal with UFC that would stream a fight.

What do we even do? Don't really have a lot of time here.

That's real.

We could find an event that's already in motion.

Can I make a suggestion? There is a nesting pair of California condors

on the closed-circuit feed at the Natural History Museum.

There's an egg in the nest right now. It's very compelling.

Why don't we just live stream me killing you?

I wouldn't be so dismissive. There was a live stream

of an eagle's nest last year that went viral,

and was getting millions of hits.

And I don't wanna be inflammatory,

but next to a condor, an eagle looks like a... common cackling.

Fuck that, Jared. I've got it.

I'm very good friends with Aaron Anderson.

Double-A? The guy who owns Homicide Energy Drink?

Uh, is Homicide the extra douchey energy drink?

It sure is. There's a bunch of stunts and crazy shit on here.

The video player quality is terrible. It's a perfect candidate.

And Double-A loves me. He'd definitely hook us up.

How do you know him?

From college. He was a sophomore when I was a senior.

He and his roommates used to live down the hall.

I used to party in their room all the time.

Uh, kind of a mentor-mentee sort of thing.

Coming from a manatee sort of thing.

You look like a ferret that gave up on himself six months ago, Gilfoyle.

- I'm going to ping Double-A. - Wait...

What if he says yes? You know?

Are we really gonna drop everything to do this?

What if we don't get it right?

I mean, it could hurt us just like it hurt them.

Shit. I don't know.

This is critical, Richard. Maybe we should SWOT this decision.

I don't know what that is, but no.

- SWOT analysis. - No.

S-W-O-T? No?

Holy cow.

Did he really just say "holy cow"?

I've had a board ready for just such an occasion.

I've booby-trapped the house with corporate resources.

SWOT is a way of evaluating a decision.

And you just break it down into "strengths,"

"weaknesses," "opportunities," and "threats."

- You're fucking joking. - Not at all.

You can SWOT a concept, a department, or a new initiative.

You can even SWOT a person, although you have to be careful.

They might SWOT you back.

- I wanna SWOT you. - Well, you can.

Because now you have the tools.

Okay. Um, shout them out and I'll tack them up.

Jared, I'm really sorry, but I... I have to go.

You know, would it make more sense if I worked something up

and then I got back to you guys?

And... okay, great. I'm on it.

"People love condors."

"Strengths."

On top of the roof,

Blaine is gonna launch off this ramp.

It's pretty gnarly.

Everything goes right, he'll fly over this street

and land on this 15-story building here.

We've got 27 cameras, a couple in the car.

Feed a live edit back here to the data center.

We put everything through your incredible compression, Richard,

and up onto the web.

So, what do you think, Richard?

I think this is awesome, Double-A.

I mean, it is incredible.

You really have built a giant monument to awesomeness.

I think my aid in helping you achieve this is what inspired me

to start my own incubator.

Uh, so, Richard, you ready for this?

Oh, yeah. I think so. Yeah, uh...

Double-A, we are psyched.

And, uh, we can do whatever you need.

- Okay, thanks Kool-Aid. - Kool-Aid? What's that? Are you Kool-Aid?

Yeah, it's just a term of endearment.

You know, nickname, I used to rock it back in the day

'cause I was cool and supportive.

Yeah. Oh, hey, guys, this is Gina, she's one of our event managers.

Hey, uh, Gina, can you take Dinesh and Gilfoyle to the data center, please?

Sure. You wanna follow me?

Only if we get hats, Gina.

You can just take mine.

Did you see that? She gave me her hat.

Pretend you've seen a woman before.

Are those Homicide drinks for free?

Yeah. Knock yourself out.

Homicide!

Is there any way that it could be maybe more like just...

You and me talking, and not Erlich?

What do you mean? Aren't you guys friends? I thought you go way back.

We do. But...

To be honest, I could never stand the guy.

I mean, just hearing his voice again is giving me PTSD.

Right. But you just called him cool.

No, I called him Kool-Aid. We all did.

Right.

Because he's like the Kool-Aid pitcher from the ads.

As in, every fucking time we were hanging out without him,

he'd come smashing through a wall.

But you still hung out with him.

Yeah, 'cause we were 19,

and he had weed and beer.

But even drunk and high I couldn't take it.

I mean, it's like he's fucking allergic

to letting other people talk.

It's like he's always gotta say something. You know?

Hey, Richard.

Homicide!

So, Dinesh, I have a question. You're obviously Pakistani,

but the name Dinesh is Indian, isn't it?

Yeah. Wow, that's... exactly right.

You know, most people, ignorant people,

don't even know those are two separate countries.

And they don't care either.

How do you know about my name?

I'm an Army brat. My dad was stationed in Karachi when I was a kid.

It was a beautiful place. Full of beautiful people.

Kind of like this room, right?