<Tr> <Th_colspan="2"> External links </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> Website </Td> </Tr> <P> Silicon Valley is an American comedy television series created by Mike Judge, John Altschuler and Dave Krinsky . The series focuses on five young men who founded a startup company in Silicon Valley . The series premiered on April 6, 2014 on HBO, and the fifth season premiered on March 25, 2018 . On April 12, 2018, it was announced that HBO had renewed the series for a sixth season . </P> <Ul> <Li> Thomas Middleditch as Richard Hendricks, a college dropout and ex-coder at tech giant Hooli, Richard quits his job to pursue his Pied Piper compression application . The company initially starts out as a simple data compression platform, but when this, and a videochat that Dinesh created with the algorithm fails, Richard pivots toward creating a new, decentralized internet, called Pipernet . For the most part, Richard is timid and quiet, and does not have much of a temper, but when he finally reaches his limit, is prone to extreme explosions of anger . Richard is constantly struggling with the demands of the business world, preferring instead to disappear into the coding of his application, but realizes that as CEO he must do more . Throughout most of the series, Richard is determined to make Pied Piper a company different from the soulless Hooli and the narcissistic, megalomaniac Gavin Belson, but as the series progresses, it becomes clear that the many trials and tribulations of trying to get his business to succeed have made him bitter, petty and ruthless, in much the same vein as the man he once sought to distinguish himself from . This is exemplified in the season 5 premiere, wherein Richard uses Gavin's tactic of spending large amounts of company money and resources to bankrupt two weaker, recently merged companies, not just to acquire their coders, but primarily to get petty vengeance on the two CEOs, who had tried to screw him over . Richard has also grown more impatient and disrespectful towards his friends, even dismissing Gilfoyle without fear . However, Richard has also grown more confident and competent in business by season 5, effectively using Gavin's ego to stall his 51% attack on Pied Piper and gain back 51% of the company, allowing Richard to finally release PiperNet the way he wants it without more interference . </Li> <Li> T.J. Miller as Erlich Bachman (seasons 1--4), a narcissistic entrepreneur who founded an innovation incubator in his home after the purchase of his airfare collator Aviato . Erlich still holds on to his glory days in the valley, wearing Aviato t - shirts and driving a van adorned with Aviato logos . Under the incubator agreement, Erlich owns 10% of Pied Piper, and is later appointed to the company's board of directors after Richard realizes how important Erlich is to the business . Erlich is a frequent user of marijuana . It is revealed in the season 2 finale that Erlich no longer codes because of severe carpal tunnel syndrome . Despite being relatively unsuccessful in his own entrepreneurial ventures, he is a competent public speaker and negotiator, and is often seen as the "face" of Pied Piper . In season 4 he appears to have a less active role in Pied Piper and his unfortunate destiny becomes more apparent . After a disastrous failure to make an agreement with Keenan Feldspar, a VR genius that turned back to Hooli, he definitively decided that he and Richard won't have a successful future, disillusioned with the tech business . Therefore, at the end of season 4 he travels to Tibet after misreading an invitation Gavin Belson sent to Richard . Gavin later abandons him at an opium - den after finding out about the Hooli - con scandal . Erlich is now missing and presumed dead, leaving Jian - Yang to inherit his house by faking Erlich's death using the ashes of a dead pig . </Li> <Li> Josh Brener as Nelson "Big Head" Bighetti, a former tenant of Erlich's incubator and Richard's best friend who also works at Hooli . He is clueless and impressionable, but still manages to acquire significant influence as a result of the struggle between Hooli and Pied Piper . After work on Pied Piper commences, Big Head is offered a huge raise and promotion by Gavin Belson to help Hooli develop its copycat software, Nucleus, out of spite and because Richard was forced to limit his staff . He is continually promoted so rapidly that buzz develops about him, and he ends up on the cover of Wired magazine . He is later removed from the Nucleus project due to his lack of technical knowledge, and has absolutely no responsibilities at Hooli . He was later promoted further to make it appear that he was the actual creator of Pied Piper while working at Hooli, but he is unaware of this . After a disastrous binding arbitration with Pied Piper, Gavin makes Big Head redundant and pays him $20 million in severance, which he blows through very quickly when Erlich tricks him into entering into a business arrangement with him, naming their firm, "Bachmanity". Big Head then buys a majority stake in PiperChat following the sale of a technology blog he and Erlich owned . Due to his poor business skills, his father takes over control of his share on his behalf . In season 4, Big Head takes a position as a Computer Science instructor at Stanford University . In season 5, after discovering that he never formally severed his arrangement with Erlich, Big Head is legally Erlich's next - of - kin and gains ownership of Erlich's house and 10% ownership of Pied Piper from Jian - Yang . Big Head moves into Erlich's house but keeps in touch with Jian - Yang, allowing him to move back into the house after Jian - Yang loses everything in China . </Li> <Li> Martin Starr as Bertram Gilfoyle, a LaVeyan Satanist network engineer and Canadian illegal immigrant, until he successfully applies for a visa after Dinesh puts him under pressure . Gilfoyle credits himself as an online security expert, and as such is responsible for system administration and server configuration at Pied Piper . Gilfoyle has a girlfriend Tara who is also a LeVeyan Satanist, with the two having an open and hedonistic relationship, though Tara still lies to Gilfoyle about sleeping with other men . Gilfoyle often plays cruel pranks on Dinesh, but the two do appear to be friends or at most, frenemies despite this, with the two often bonding over their shared moral ambiguity . While he is usually indifferent to Richard and lacks loyalty towards him, Gilfoyle highly respects Richard as a coder and admits that Pied Piper is nothing without Richard . Like Dinesh, Gilfoyle is acerbic and sarcastic, but in contrast, highly apathetic, sardonic and brutally honest . He acts as the systems architect of Pied Piper . While usually calm and collected, it is revealed in season 5 that Gilfoyle is afraid of Artificial Intelligence taking over humanity one day . Gilfoyle has also grown slightly less confident and more complacent to Richard and Monica but is still freely dismissive of Dinesh and Jared . In season 5, Gilfoyle is promoted to senior management along with Dinesh with the title of "Chief Systems Architect". </Li> <Li> Kumail Nanjiani as Dinesh Chugtai, a talented programmer specializing in Java originally from Karachi, Pakistan who is typically the victim of Gilfoyle's embarrassing games and pranks . Dinesh exhibits an acerbic and sarcastic personality towards everyone on the team, and often behaves in a callous and amoral manner, such as when he plots the death of a man who was dating the girl that he liked . Dinesh is also shown to be especially materialistic and unsuccessful with women . Dinesh always seems to run into bad luck, such as getting involved with cyber criminals to opportunities for recognition . In season 5, Dinesh is promoted to senior management along with Gilfoyle . </Li> <Li> Christopher Evan Welch as Peter Gregory (season 1), the billionaire founder and CEO of Raviga Capital as well a 5% equity owner of Pied Piper after his $200,000 investment . Gregory is extremely brilliant, but socially inept, eccentric and unpredictable, once delaying a crisis business meeting to sample Burger King products for eight hours in order to identify a potential new investment . Welch died after the fifth episode of season 1 was completed, but the character remained present off - screen for the remainder of the season . Gregory later died in the season 2 premiere . Monica is saddened by Gregory's death and still highly reveres him, becoming very disappointed whenever the values Gregory believed in and instilled in the Valley are dishonored, notably by Laurie Bream's profit - centric approach to business . </Li> <Li> Amanda Crew as Monica Hall, an employee of Raviga Capital and associate partner under both Peter Gregory and later Laurie Bream . Monica is often charged with engaging with clients on a more personable and approachable way than either Gregory or Bream are, and as such forms a bond with Richard after she convinces him to launch Pied Piper on his own . Her interactions with Richard subtly imply a mutual romantic attachment which, though rarely explored, is often a deciding factor whenever major decisions arise, such as Richard's decision to go with Raviga over Hooli, Monica's persistence in keeping Pied Piper on board whenever Laurie considers dropping them and, later in the series, Monica's willingness to side with Richard at the cost of losing favour with Laurie . In season 4, she leaves Raviga to partner with Laurie at her new VC firm, Bream / Hall . By season 5, Monica's relationship with Richard has become strictly professional and business - like, presumably having realized that her previously close relationship with him has led to her getting badly burnt in her career . She and Richard eventually clash over this when he asks her "as a friend" for advice on Gilfoyle's ICO idea, pointing out how little he actually knows about her beyond work, revealing as an example the fact that she was married briefly, but had it annulled after three months . In the same conversation, she demonstrates a newfound confidence and authority, such that she is able to silence Gilfoyle and educate him on the real risks that an ICO carries . However, upon learning that Laurie wants to pump PiperNet with ads, effectively destroying Richard's vision, Monica once again sides with Richard and tips him off about it, leading to the two reconciling and reaffirming their friendship . Having also realised that she is still as much Laurie's subordinate as she ever was at Raviga, Monica finally severs all business ties with her, and moves to Pied Piper as its new CFO . </Li> <Li> Zach Woods as Donald "Jared" Dunn, an ex-VP of Hooli who quits the company in order to join the Pied Piper team as its CFO and business advisor . Like Richard, Jared is meek and reserved, but gains confidence as the series progresses and the company's success necessitates it . He is also exceedingly optimistic, selfless and thoroughly devoted to Richard, sacrificing his high - paying and financially secure job at Hooli to lend his business expertise to Pied Piper . His birth name is Donald, but his former boss, Gavin, once referred to him as Jared, and the nickname stuck, despite the Pied Piper team knowing it's not his real name . He is frequently disrespected by the other employees of Pied Piper, aside from Richard who often defends him, though he tends to be oblivious of this or too awkward to actually understand the insult . Over the course of the series, Jared drops bits and pieces of his considerably dark backstory, such as being the product of a forced adoption to finding his biological father in the Ozarks . In season 5, after realizing his trust and loyalty to Pied Piper, Richard promotes Jared to COO . </Li> <Li> Matt Ross as Gavin Belson (recurring season 1, starring season 2--present), the CEO and founder of tech giant Hooli, who embodies the soulless corporate culture that Richard is desperate to avoid with Pied Piper . Belson constantly spews forth pseudo-philosophical rants to his employees, who remain enamored with his work, but at the same time demonstrates complete ignorance and a mean spirit . In season 2, Belson launched a lawsuit against Pied Piper, claiming that it was developed on Hooli company time and using company resources . Historically Belson and Peter Gregory were friends but later became business rivals, and interactions between the two of them became awkward as a result . Gavin's hubris and vindictive streak is often the root cause of many of Hooli's problems, such as the failure of Nucleus, the constant slew of PR disasters and his decision to take over PiperChat with no due diligence, which causes his temporary eviction from the CEO of Hooli in season 4 . He gets back to his function at the end of the season, firing the new CEO Jack Barker . In season 5, despite knowing of Richard's plans for his new internet, Gavin intends to push the sale of Hooli's Box 3 . He later learns that Jian - Yang has recreated Richard's new internet and tries to acquire it, only to be cheated out of the patent by one of his factory heads Yao . Gavin later learns that due to his failure to launch the Box 3 and gain profits, the board at Hooli votes to sell the company to Amazon and Jeff Bezos . Gavin is later offered a 20% stake in Laurie and Yao's YaoNet project by allowing YaoNet users to be absorbed into Hooli to gain 51% of Pied Piper and delete it . However, Richard uses Gavin's ego to trick Gavin into accepting "ownership" of Pied Piper, stalling the deletion of Pied Piper and allowing Richard to regain control and bar Hooli from entering Pied Piper again, leaving Gavin to a final defeat . </Li> <Li> Suzanne Cryer as Laurie Bream (season 2--present), the replacement for Peter Gregory as CEO of Raviga Capital, and later co-founder of Bream Hall Capital with Monica . Like her predecessor, Laurie is highly intelligent and socially inept, but appears to rely more on tangible metrics than Peter . Further, unlike him, she is completely devoid of empathy, emotion or any kind of idealism, concerning herself only with making a profit . This leads to her terminating Raviga's investment into Pied Piper after Belson's lawsuit is announced, firing Richard as CEO due to several mistakes that were not his fault, and unilaterally selling Pied Piper when its reputation is severely damaged after Jared's deceptive practices . This is most exemplified in season 5, when Richard gifts her with free computing credits for Pied Piper out of compassion when he saw her struggling to run a failing company, she remorselessly takes them for profit . Little is known about her personal life, but in Season 4 she is pregnant with her fourth child . Despite her difficulty with connecting with people, Laurie claims that Monica is her best friend . However, in season 5, when Monica becomes disillusioned after learning that Laurie planned to force Pied Piper to sell ads from their Series B deal, which would destroy Richard's vision, and realising that she is a partner in name only, Monica severs business ties with Laurie and joins Pied Piper, and Laurie is completely unfazed by her departure . Laurie later partners with one of Gavin's former employees Yao, to lauch a 51% attack on Pied Piper to delete PiperNet and replace it with a corporate - controlled knock off of Jian - Yang's, called "YaoNet", offering Gavin a 20% stake in the venture . However, Richard succeeds in saving his company and prevents Laurie from locking the deal . </Li> <Li> Jimmy O. Yang as Jian - Yang (recurring season 1, starring season 2--present), another tenant of Erlich's incubator, and the only person who lives there that is not involved with Pied Piper in any capacity . He speaks broken English but slowly and with a heavy Chinese accent . He and Erlich have frequent disagreements, and during Season 3, Episode 2, after finding out how difficult it is for a landowner to evict a tenant, Jian - Yang decides to take advantage of this and live rent - free in Erlich's house for a year . Jian - Yang often insults and makes prank calls to Erlich, and takes a sadistic enjoyment in tormenting him . In Season 5, he takes advantage of Erlich being missing in Tibet by claiming him to be deceased in order to assume ownership of the incubator and Erlich's 10% stake in Pied Piper, kicking the Pied Piper team out of the house and replacing them with his Chinese friends . He later plans to copy the best American tech companies for the Chinese market . Learning that Big Head is Erlich's legal next - of - kin and losing ownership of Erlich's assets, Jian - Yang moves back to China to create "New Pied Piper", but is found on the brink of bankruptcy by Gavin Belson, ashamed over betraying and abandoning his friends and good life in the valley to fail in China . Gavin discovers Jian - Yang has recreated and modified Richard's new internet project that it is not restricted by Richard's patent and offers Jian Yang to acquire his project . Jian - Yang later signs over his project to Yao and becomes addicted to gambling . When the 51% attack on Pied Piper is discovered, Gilfoyle demands Jian - Yang talk about his deal . Refusing at first, Jian - Yang consents after losing the rest of his money gambling and requests in return for his disclosure, Jian - Yang is allowed to move back into the house, occupying Erlich's old room . </Li> <Li> Stephen Tobolowsky as Jack Barker a.k.a Action Jack (recurring season 3, starring season 4), briefly the CEO of Pied Piper after Richard was voted out . Later he becomes involved with Hooli on their Endframe Box, though is later demoted by Gavin . Subsequently, he became CEO of Hooli after Gavin Belson was fired, but was shortly removed after he was held hostage by Hooli plant workers in China . While in function, he tries to reach Belson's communication skills during Holli Con presentation and makes a calmless entry before his talk, copying the former director of Microsoft Steve Ballmer's prestation . </Li> <Li> Chris Diamantopoulos as Russ Hanneman (recurring season 2--3, starring season 4, guest season 5), an unpredictable, selfish and bizarre billionaire investor who provides Pied Piper with their Series A . In the fourth - season premiere, he agrees to fund Richard's' new internet' project . Richard ultimately does not go with this funding offer, choosing instead to partner with Gavin Belson . Enraged, Hanneman urinates in Jian - Yang's Corvette, believing it to be Richard's . Hanneman is later found broke due to putting all of his money into 36 ICOs, with only one of them being successful but losing the thumb drive containing the coin . </Li> </Ul>

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