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Silicon Valley | Season 1-5 | The Best of Gavin Belson

Silicon Valley | Season 1-5 | The Best of Gavin Belson

Pickle Rick
0 HN recommenders · discussed 2021–2025
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A compilation of the best Gavin Belson moments from Silicon Valley seasons 1 to 5, showing the show's self-absorbed tech CEO.

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Used as a joke whenever a tech executive acts like Belson, surrounded by yes-men or making grandiose claims.

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From the Hacker News discussion

015a · 2021-08 · joke

> Of course, if you were the ceo of Google and have something like that happen. You would ask your teams, what are the different scenarios we can explore? And one of them would be killing the CEO of Epic. What people expect? [VIDEO]

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reducesuffering · 2023-07 · joke

Every section about the CEO just makes me think of Gavin Belson from the Silicon Valley series, surrounding himself with "yes men" and firing people who make him feel like he might be a little wrong. [LINK] [VIDEO] [VIDEO]

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reducesuffering · 2023-09 · joke

"The challenge is his personality and demeanor can turn on a dime going from excited to angry. Since it was hard to read what mood he might be in and what his reaction would be to any given thing, people quickly became afraid of being called into meetings or having to share negative news with him." -Esther Crawford [LINK] also Gavin Belson was spot on [LINK] [VIDEO] [VIDEO]

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DonHopkins · 2025-09 · joke

>extreme resilience You misspelled narcissistic psychopath. The Best of Gavin Belson: [VIDEO] The Best of Russ Hanneman: [LINK]

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