Kumail Nanjiani, the 47-year-old star of HBO’s acclaimed comedy Silicon Valley , which ran from 2014 to 2019, recently revealed he has met many people from the real-world Silicon Valley, and not everyone was a fan of the show’s depiction of startup culture. Chief among those people, he said, was Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla and world’s richest man .

Speaking on Mike Birbiglia’s podcast , Nanjiani was asked if he ever met the tech billionaires his show would lampoon, and Nanjiani said yes, he had met Musk and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, among others. But when Birbiglia asked if Musk liked the show or gave any feedback, Nanjiani replied , “He didn’t like the show.”

“He was like, all the parties I go to are much cooler than these parties. I was like, yeah man, you’re one of the ric

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