Bill Gates says that HBO's 'Silicon Valley' is the best way to understand the real Silicon Valley: 'They don’t make any more fun of us than we deserve'

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November 19, 2018 8:51 PM

Bill Gates says that HBO's 'Silicon Valley' is a really accurate lampooning of the real Silicon Valley. But he has one little gripe.

Bill Gates has a message for those in the tech industry who think that HBO's "Silicon Valley" is too critical: lighten up.

There are those in the real-world Silicon Valley who think that HBO's "Silicon Valley," the network's long-running satire, is too critical of the tech industry.

But in a new blog entry, no less than Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates has a message for those people: lighten up.

In his blog entry, Gates says that he's one of the many tech execs who were consulted by the show's creators to ensure authenticity — creator Mike Judge and his production team have interviewed the likes of former Twitter CEO Dick Costolo and investor Marc Andreessen, even embedding at a hardware startup to ensure that a running gag rang true.

Gates writes that all of that effort paid off, as the show is an accurate lampooning of the types of people and companies that he knows so well. He says that he identifies the most with Richard Hendricks, the founder of Pied Piper, "

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