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

Pickle RickCited 4× on HN, 2021–2025
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comedy · general · evergreen · 2021–2025 on HN

A compilation of the best Gavin Belson moments from Silicon Valley seasons 1 to 5, showing the show's self-absorbed tech CEO.

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

4 comments from Hacker News

@DonHopkins2025-09 · in “Do YC after you graduate: Early decision for students”

>extreme resilience You misspelled narcissistic psychopath. The Best of Gavin Belson: ▶ this video The Best of Russ Hanneman: link

@reducesuffering2023-09 · in “Elon Musk moving servers himself shows his ‘maniacal sense of urgency’ at X”

"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 ▶ this video ▶ this video

@reducesuffering2023-07 · in “Esther Crawford: “Now is a good time to open up a bit””

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 ▶ this video ▶ this video

@015a2021-08 · in “Google “contemplated buying some or all of Epic” to stop “contagion””

> 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? ▶ this video