HBO’s Silicon Valley Glossary

HBO's Silicon Valley is one of my favorite TV shows of all time. I've watched the entire 6-season series eleven times now.

The first time I watched the series was in 2015, and back then I was still in college and my knowledge of software was still very limited - it still is - and so whenever I heard a technical term or a term that I thought was related to startups I'd write it down in my notebook to google it later. This note is the culminated list of all those terms I wrote down across 6 seasons.

Season 1 (2014)

Episode 1 - Minimum Viable Product

Vested stock options

Episode 2 - The Cap Table

Cap table
Investment Deck
Airtight Business plan
Go to market strategy
3-year summary P&L statement
Tectonic shift
Customer acquisition strategy
DCF valuations (most VCs don’t do that, but some might?)
VCs ( Venture Capital)
Cross site scripting
Emergency database rollbacksFaulty transaction handlings
Low-overhead code
High order functions

Episode 3 - Articles of Incorporation

Emergency capital injection
AVL technology
Microclimates
Herb cohen

Episode 4 - Fiduciary Duties

DCT filter bank
DFT spider web
Aneurysm

Episode 5 - Signaling Risk

Burn-down chart
Rules base filtering
corporate colture
DRM & Error Handling
Scrum

Episode 6 - Third Party Insourcing

Cloud architecture
Orchestration
Persistence layer
Data schema
Database layers
Application layers
Chef scripts
DDL tables
regression test

Episode 7 - Proof of Concept

injestion engine
Core compression algorithm
Defects by priority
Ingestio
SoLoMo

Episode 8 - Optimal Tip-to-Tip Efficiency

Shannon coding
Huffman coding
Middle out algorithm
Lempel

Season 2 (2015)

Episode 1 - Sand Hill Shuffle

Down round
Runaway valuation
Cash flow break even
Acquisition

Episode 2 - Runaway Devaluation

Technical due diligence
h.264’s two dimentional grid
IPO

Episode 3 - Bad Money

Burn rate

Episode 4 - The Lady

Code of conduct
VP9 AVR to reduce bids
web RTC

Episode 5 - Server Space

Yactoseconds
Latency
Gigaflops
Zoning code

Episode 6 - Homicide

SWOT analysis

Episode 7 - Adult Content

Sales model
SQLI
XSS
Unauthorized kernel modules
Server hyperviser
Faraday cage
Sk3wl of r00t
Fork bomb
SIGKILL

Episode 8 - White Hat/Black Hat

Scale up
Bitrate
Headroom
Compiling varnish
Caching manifest
P2P swarm
Underlying IP
DBAN
Kernel

Episode 9 - Binding Arbitration

Binding arbitration
Discovery documents

Season 3 (2016)

Episode 2 - Two in the Box

P2P delivery
Neural net deep learning
Severance package

Episode 4 - Maleant Data Systems Solutions

Differencing library

Episode 6 - Bachmanity Insanity

NDA (Non Disclosure Agreement)

Episode 7 - To Build a Better Beta

IP address and GPS coordinates (god-view)
Zip bomb

Episode 9 - Daily Active Users

DAUs
All-hands
Click-farm

Episode 10 - The Uptick

Zombie script
Due diligence
No-shop clause

Season 4 (2017)

Episode 1 - Success Failure

Push code
Turn server
Cap table
Decentralized
Back-channel
Perpetual license

Episode 2 - Terms of Service

semiosis
Hards on
bifurcate
Data repository
Vaporware
Parental permission requirements
COPPA (Children Online Privacy and Protection Act)
each violation of COPPA cost $16,000.00 per use
Terms of Service ToS
fiduciary duty
FTC
GDP
due diligence
Crisper

Episode 3 - Intellectual Property

Peer 2 Peer
Computational trust
VC fund
fully decentralized internet

Episode 4 - Teambuilding Exercise

Sybil Attack
royalty and equity
sadist / demented
delta in mean device effeciency
operating fees
compelutional nural net
(butch casedy)

Episode 5 - The Blood Boy

Frank Gary
Transfusion associate
parabiosis
baby shower baby Garcia
Tell-All
ReCode (mag?)

Episode 6 - Customer Service

Redfin (Website)
Come and practice
Gesture records
Merge error
Intrusion detection & prevention

Episode 7 - The Patent Troll

sonic wall
sonic .ace
TZ600
SSL decryption & inspection
application control
cease and desist
solutionism
over clock
discretion

Episode 8 - The Keenan Vortex

Microprocessor plant
counter offer

Episode 9 - Hooli-Con

Man in the middle attack with Pinaples
snub a person
Means to an end

Episode 10 - Server Error

Personal action plan
RAID 0 (no backup) if you lose a platter, you lose data.
server array
GNOME sequence analysis
Sherlock cluster (Stanford)
in-breach
OUI prefix in mac address
steamroll a person

Season 5 (2018)

Episode 2 - Reorientation

All hands Meeting
Ira glass

Episode 3 - Chief Operating Officer

Deal Memo

Episode 5 - Facial Recognition

Roko’s basilisk

Episode 8 - Fifty-One Percent

Inflection point
51% attack
consensus protocol

Season 6 (2019)

Episode 5 - Tethics

John the ripper

Episode 7 - Exit Event

Curve25519 Encryption