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http://www.businessinsider.com/google-x-astro-teller-hbo-silicon-valley-2016-6

Google's moonshot boss reportedly huffed out of a meeting with the writers of HBO's 'Silicon Valley'

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According to The New Yorker report, the writers of "Silicon Valley" met with Astro Teller, the head of X, formerly known as Google X the division of Google parent company Alphabetresponsible for "moonshot" projects, including Google Glass and self-driving cars. That meeting ended poorly, with Teller "standing up in a huff" and making a dramatic exit, says the report.

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The funniest part, Kemper says, is that Teller's attempt at a big exit was a bit awkward because he was wearing Rollerblades. He "wobbled" to the door and struggled to get the door open with his ID badge ... all in clear view of the gathered "Silicon Valley" writers.

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you forgot to quote the best part of that story...

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The writers weighed turning the event into a joke, but decided that it was "too hacky to use on the show," Kemper told The New Yorker.

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BigHead will be rich again. I have a feeling in the shows final episode, Mike Judge will make the statement that dumb people are just as likely to strike it rich as hard working smart people.

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I wouldn't be surprised if the bowling balls had some sort of hidden value. That'd be a very Bighead way of doing things

The way Erlich says San Francisco.

Dinesh and (especially) Gilfoyle are the best. I loved the coffee shop scene.

Pescapescatarian

Jarod asked you nicely to step back, so step the f*** back

That jacket is ****ing awesome, even more awesome was Gilfoyle saying he wouldn't cover his dead mothers naked body in the street with the jacket.

Jared calling Gilfoyle "Gilf" was awesome

"That's mighty Christian of you Gilfoyle."

The best the about the jacket was the rats on the sleeve

"She pulled her pants down and ****ed us, in front of our parents"

"Did that happen to you...?"

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Also, I'd like to see Russ return at some point. He's great in small doses.

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You got your wish last night...and in the perfect dose!

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Also, I'd like to see Russ return at some point. He's great in small doses.

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You got your wish last night...and in the perfect dose!

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Love me some Russ.

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The best the about the jacket was the rats on the sleeve

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I didnt register to me that that's what that was... I just laughed out loud reading this while on a conference call

This episode hit kind of close to home. About 5 years ago, I had an offer on the table from a startup and they kept saying "don't think too much about the salary. Most of your comp is the stock."

So I start asking about strike prices, last round valuation, number of shares, classes of shares, "tags and drags", triggering events, shareholder agreements, voting rights,etc.

Hiring manager couldn't answer my questions, so I got sent to hr. They couldn't answer my questions, so I get passed to the CFO. His response"who do you think you are asking these questions? We have hired 50 people in the last couple of months and no one has asked anything like this ". He didn't really have an answer when I ask him why that didn't scare him and question the quality of these hires"

I worked there for exactly 6 hours

Well, how did the startup do?

Did it just sell to Microsoft for $23 billion?

-- Sounds mighty Christian of you, Gilfoyle

-- There's no need for hate speech, Richard

Well, she was the only one that ordered a jacket

I was recruited for a tech/mobile company and they relocated me to the beach. $35k ('00) a year and they hyped the **** out of their stock. At $168 share. Every day I was there the stock sank, and weekly they were hyping it and trying to get employees to buy more.

Then the founders started selling off, and we were told not to worry. 9 months after I was hired I was laid off in the 6th round. A month later they closed their west coast office.

Employees were basically looting anything not bolted down on their way out. Happy I never bought another share.

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Well, how did the startup do?

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