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by bitmapbrother 3598 days ago
>pseudo-Google company

I don't get why people think Hooli is some pseudo-Google company. In the Silicon Valley universe Google clearly exists. Eric Schmidt was in their series premiere and the show's opening intro animation clearly shows Google and YouTube.

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It's because they probably can't use Google but they wanted a Google. It's a writing device to get around that inconvenient fact.
It's a composite of recognizable bad habits of a bunch of well known companies, including Google.
Hooli strikes me as a Google-sized Uber.