Delivering a keynote address at the Iberseries & Platino Industria in Madrid, “ Silicon Valley ” showrunner John Altschuler did not mince words when giving his opinion of the tech people inhabiting the real Silicon Valley: “They’re greedy, ravenous, terrible people,” he said.

The idea for his hit HBO Max series came to him after reading Walter Isaacson’s biography of Steve Jobs. “It’s a good book…. I came to a passage about Bill Gates ridiculing Steve Jobs, saying: ‘The guy can’t even write code.’ And I’m like, well, this is hilarious.”

Researching for the show took him to Silicon Valley where he had three meetings and all three companies said to him: “We’re not interested in making money, we’re interested in making the world a better place.” That line is often repeated in Season 1 o

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