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- In episode seven of "Silicon Valley's" fifth season, Gilfoyle convinces Pied Piper CEO Richard Hendricks that the company should get into cryptocurrency.
- Gilfoyle gives a presentation to argue that the startup should raise money using an Initial Coin Offering (ICO) instead of a Series B round from a venture capital firm.
- HBO gave Business Insider the entirety of Gilfoyle 's PowerPoint presentation, which is both useful and hilarious.
HBO's "Silicon Valley" is a biting satire of the tech industry, and the show's writers use tech trends and real-life events to inform the storylines.
Since the show's fourth season aired in 2017, cryptocurrency has gotten much bigger, and is something a lot of people are talking about (or getting into) in Silicon Valley. And so are the characters on "Silicon Valley," especially Gilfoyle.
"There are very few things that I will defend with true passion," Gilfoyle says in the show. "Medical marijuana, the biblical Satan as a metaphor for rebellion against tyranny, and mother f---ing God d--- cryptocurrency."
In the seventh episode of the comedy's excellent fifth season, Gilfoyle convinces Pied Piper CEO Richard Hendricks to use an Initial Coin Offering (ICO) to raise more money instead of a Series B round of financing with venture capital firm Raviga.
In the episode, called "Initial Coin Offering," Gilfoyle gives Richard a PowerPoint presentation supporting his vision for Pied Piper Coin, but we didn't get to see the whole thing - until now.
HBO sent Business Insider the entirety of Gilfoyle's presentation. The slideshow is not only incredibly funny, with hilarious references to the fact that Gilfoyle worships Satan, but it's also an informative presentation about the rise of currency and cryptocurrency dating all the way back to Aristotle.
A representative for HBO said the season five writers were inspired to make the presentation after a talk they received from Henry Berg, an engineer and Bitcoin guru, who is credited at the very end of Gilfoyle's slideshow. He also happens to be the brother of "Silicon Valley" showrunner Alec Berg.
Here's Gilfoyle's entire slideshow about cryptocurrency:
