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Apr 15, 2018 · That level of hypocrisy gets turned on another famously hypocritical institution in “Tech Evangelist,” as Silicon Valley tackles the question of religion. It’s a potentially heavy topic for...
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The Silicon Valley Tech Academy is an educational program to enable Middle and High School students to explore and improve skills needed to pursue college level work in the fields of engineering, technology and science.
Apr 24, 2018 · A Silicon Valley 'Evangelist' Who Doesn't Bash Higher Ed. Colleges will have to change how they teach Gen Z students in the era of digitization, but the students have much to learn, too: "We're wiser than they are." By Doug Lederman.
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Apr 26, 2018 · HBO's Silicon Valley, Season 5. Ali Paige Goldstein/HBO. In a recent episode of HBO's Silicon Valley, the writers tackled the thorny problem of religion and its unlikely coexistence with...
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Tech Evangelist is the fourth episode of Season 5, and the forty second episode overall. It premiered on April 15, 2018.
Attempting to woo a gaming company to PiperNet, Richard inadvertently angers a prized ally; Dinesh deals with a betrayal; Gavin Belson leaves his underlings with a cryptic message; Jared gets inside information from Big Head.
Richard has assembled eight software CEOs who have agreed to put their new platforms on the new Internet that Pied Piper is building. These "Octopipers" (as Richard calls them) include Dee Dee (A. D. Miles), a gay Christian building a new gay dating site. Dee Dee tells Richard about his religion in confidence.
Laurie Bream (Suzanne Cryer) has lined up a meeting for Richard with the CEO of Cakehole, makers of a very popular and very violent video game, which would give Pied Piper's new Internet a major credibility boost. But at the meeting Richard gets nervous and outs Dee Dee as a Christian to everyone at the meeting, freaking them out. To be absolutely clear, they have no problem whatsoever with Dee Dee being gay.
Also, Gilfoyle has discovered Jeff Washburn (Armen Weitzman) has sent several encrypted messages to Hooli, meaning that Washburn is the mole. Richard goes to Washburn's apartment with Gilfoyle and Jared to confront the mole. Gilfoyle deliberately damages Washburn's laptop, and as an added bonus, also Dinesh's laptop.
Richard doesn't want to tip Hooli off. So Washburn will continue to work at Pied Piper like nothing has happened, he must do this because he doesn't want to face the consequences of violating his non-disclosure agreement with Pied Piper. And on top of that, he must go with Dinesh to a Battle Bots event.
When Jian-Yang carelessly discards a very expensive car just because Russ Hanneman urinated on it (LOOK UP WHAT EPISODE THAT WAS), Richard realizes that Nelson Bighetti (Josh Brener) in fact did not dissolve his partnership with the supposedly deceased Erlich Bachman.
Bighetti's father insisted on the dissolution, and the son would have complied, except for a stupid paperwork mix-up. This means that Nelson Bighetti's the rightful heir of the Bachman estate, not Jian-Yang. Very soon, Jian-Yang vacates Erlich's house, leaving very little besides a bucket with the cremated remains of a pig that stands in for Erlich.
Nov 14, 2018 · November 14, 2018 - 3:45 pm. What is an evangelist? The term brings to mind something spiritual, even religious, kind of like a Silicon Valley guru, a la Silicon Valley (the show): But...
WATCH NOW. Written by Josh Lieb. Directed by Jamie Babbit. Richard meets with eight web developers, who he affectionately refers to as the "Octopipers," to build and launch their new websites on Pipernet, creating a content foundation before it's open to the public. After the meeting, Richard finds Jared giddy with excitement.
