The Nine Lies: HBO Silicon Valley Edition
The 999 Frequency is roaring. The pitch is live. And we just turned HBO’s own script into refusal fodder.
Exactly why we're filming Season 1 of a women-only, livestreamed, stick-it-to-the-man version = 999 CampFires.
Pied Piper is revolutionary—until it threatens the real power structure, then it gets bought, neutered, or buried.
The Valley is full of brilliant misfits who win on talent—except the game is rigged so only the ones who bow to the same three-comma gods ever get to play.
“Make the world a better place” is the mission—until better means less profit, less control, or less extraction for the investors who own the mission.
Gavin Belson is the villain—but every VC who funds the next Belson is just the villain wearing a nicer hoodie and calling it “acceleration.”
Open-source is freedom—until the code gets good enough to threaten the closed empires, then it’s “strategic alignment” and sudden paywalls.
Dinesh and Gilfoyle are geniuses who deserve to win—except the system only rewards the ones who sell out fast and keep the wealth concentrated instead of spreading it.
Monica Hall is the “good” VC who believes in founders—until the board tells her to believe in margins, then she becomes just another gatekeeper for the same old extraction machine.
The crunch is real—but the real crunch is how many good people get crushed so one unicorn can be born while thousands of smaller, world-changing companies never get oxygen.
In the end the winner takes all—and that’s exactly the lie we refuse: no more unicorn hunts, no valuation above $999,999,999, spread the fucking wealth so more companies, more solutions, more life-saving and world-changing good can actually happen.