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Silicon Valley

4 BuzzVerdicts, ranked by rating across TV Shows (3), Books (1)

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Silicon Valley

4.2

2014 · 6 Seasons · HBO · Comedy

Silicon Valley spent six seasons proving that the tech industry is beyond parody by parodying it with terrifying accuracy, from hot dog identifying apps to founders promising to make the world a better place through middle-out compression. Mike Judge's startup odyssey follows Richard Hendricks and the Pied Piper crew through funding rounds, patent suits, and self-inflicted catastrophes, with Thomas Middleditch's panic spirals and the immortal Erlich Bachman providing the engine. Industry insiders vouch for its accuracy like veterans vouch for war films. The failure-reset formula wears by the middle seasons, and a key cast exit stings, but the finale sticks a landing few comedies attempt.

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Steve Jobs

4.2

2011 · Walter Isaacson · 656 pages · Nonfiction / Biography

Steve Jobs is the authorized biography that its subject, dying and uncharacteristically unable to control the product, never read, built from forty-plus interviews with Jobs and hundreds with the people he inspired, wounded, and abandoned. Walter Isaacson delivers the definitive account of the Apple founder's two acts, the brutal visionary who was fired by his own company and the returned exile who built the most valuable company on earth, and refuses to sand down the cruelty, the reality distortion, or the parking in handicapped spaces. Tech insiders fault Isaacson's grasp of the actual work, and the structure lists chronologically through product launches. As a portrait of a personality, it remains unmatched.

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