When I do these walkthroughs, my aim is to really help you understand the tricky listening bits, the new expressions, and the cultural references. If you’ve never seen the series before, I’m using this clip called “Pied Piper’s steps to success”, which is a bunch of clips from the different seasons to give you an introduction and introduce you to the main characters. I really like it because it really keeps you hooked and addicted to the show. So there’s always a season finale that’s a bit dramatic. All the dramas that can happen in the tech business. So something awful has happened to the guys, for instance they had an idea stolen, or they ran out of money, or they mess up a client project. Usually every season ends on some kind of cliff-hanger. So, what’s great about this series, is that I think it really characterises all the ups and downs and the stresses of creating a business. Then there are two engineers that they work with, Dinesh and Gilfoyle who hate each other and spend most of their time insulting each other. There’s also Elrich Bachmann, who’s the person who runs the incubator where they set up the company. In the company there’s him, there’s Jared, whose real name is Gordon, who is probably one of the funniest characters in any series I’ve ever seen! He actually ends up getting investor funding and starting his own company called Pied Piper of course. He’s working at the time and he enters into a bidding war with his employer Gavin Belson, who is the head of the evil tech giant Hooli. He creates a really powerful compression algorithm.

The founder is a guy called Richard Hendricks, who is a programming genius, but rather socially awkward and maybe not really suited to running a business.

It’s a comedy series about a group of guys in Silicon Valley who are building a tech start-up called Pied Piper. So it’s an awesome resource for working on your listening and breaking free from the subtitles. O n the official HBO YouTube channel, there are a whole bunch of Silicon Valley clips with accurate subtitles and time stamps. It’s Silicon Valley, which is an HBO show. In this post I’m taking you on a walk-through of one of my favourite series.

Hello there Leo Listeners! It’s Cara here from Leo Listening, where I help advanced English learners to fall back in love with their favourite series by helping them to break free from the subtitles!

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