Fan Casting Silicon Valley (2000-2005)

Richard Hendricks creates an app known as Pied Piper which contains a revolutionary data compression algorithm. Venture capitalist Peter Gregory and his assistant Monica acquire a stake in Pied Piper, and Richard hires the residents of his childhood friend Erlich Bachman's house, his other friends Bertram Gilfoyle and Dinesh Chugtai, alongside Donald "Jared" Dunn, who defected from another tech company called Hooli. Meanwhile, Richard's roommate Nelson "Big Head" Bighetti chooses to accept a substantial promotion at Hooli instead, despite his lack of merit for the job. Conniving Hooli CEO Gavin Belson, however, instructs his employees to reverse engineer Pied Piper's algorithm and develops a copycat product called Nucleus.