[drakaal]

Sarah Austin, (from the bravo Silicon Valley reality series) is my CPO. She is very aware that the way "TV" wants to portray Silicon Valley and the way it really is are very different. Founders don't typically drive McLaren's and live in a multi-room suite at the Four Seasons.

It is much more typical to do what she does now, crash at AirBnB as she bounces between cities for meetings, and working 10 hours at the office and working another 4 at the house.

http://plexinlp.com is a passion, and we'd be building it even if we weren't out to get rich. Sure we hope it is the next billion dollar wolfram/siri/google killer.

We aren't planning to be like the reality series and get canceled in episode 4. We are in it for the long haul. Which is something that is happening less and less in SV. People routinely tell me they are doing 2, 3, and even 4 startups at the same time.

SV needs to be able to laugh at itself. But it also needs to understand that it isn't in a bubble entirely right now. The money is bigger, but not by the orders of magnitude that the pervasiveness of the Internet has increased. The people getting rich are creating more divide than there ever was, but also the expectations on those who achieve that level have gone up. SV is in flux as no other place on the planet has as much potential to make you a millionaire or a pauper in a 2 year time.

[jff]

I haven't watched the show yet but I hope they manage to accurately capture this sort of continual shameless self-promotion.

[sehr]

The clinic scene seemed to do a decent job of it!