Richard Hendricks (Thomas Middleditch) is a shy, reclusive programmer working for Hooli, a large tech corporation headquartered in Silicon Valley.
He lives in a house in Palo Alto that serves as a Business incubator run by Erlich Bachman (T.J. Miller), an entrepreneur who founded the tech company Aviato before selling it years ago.
Other cohabitants include Nelson "Big Head" Bighetti (Josh Brener), Hendricks's coworker at Hooli, system architect Bertram Gilfoyle (Martin Starr), and Java programmer Dinesh Chugtai (Kumail Nanjiani).
Richard is working on a side project called "Pied Piper", an application that tracks songs to help musicians avoid copyright infringement.
This is noticed by Hooli VP Jared Dunn (Zach Woods), who notifies CEO Gavin Belson (Matt Ross).
In 1987 he moved to the Silicon Valley region of Northern California and joined Parallax, a startup video card company with about 40 employees.
They were true believers in something, and I don't know what it was"), Judge quit after less than three months, but the experience gave him the background to later create a show about the region's people and companies.
[11] For the Contra Costa Times, Chuck Barney observed that the episode "certainly goes out of its way to skewer the superrich tech titans" for being "smug and pompous".