Optimal Tip-to-Tip Efficiency
episode of Silicon Valley
"Optimal Tip-to-Tip Efficiency" is the eighth and final episode of the first season of the American television comedy series Silicon Valley. The episode was written by Alec Berg and directed by series co-creator Mike Judge, and originally aired on HBO on June 1, 2014. Berg received a nomination for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series at the 66th Primetime Emmy Awards for writing the episode.
Plot
In the aftermath of the previous episode, TechCrunch informs the Pied Piper team that Dan Melcher has been banned from judging at Disrupt, fired from his job at Oracle, and that his wife has left him. Desperate to avoid litigation as a result of Melcher's assault of Erlich (T.J. Miller), the head of Disrupt offers Pied Piper a ticket straight to the final round, where they will compete for the grand prize. However, the team soon witnesses Gavin Belson's (Matt Ross) presentation of Nucleus, which reveals additional optimal features as well as a Weissman score of 2.89, the same as Pied Piper's. The presentation leaves Richard (Thomas Middleditch) and the rest of the Pied Piper team despondent. Dinesh (Kumail Nanjiani) and Gilfoyle (Martin Starr) contemplate leaving Pied Piper while Jared (Zach Woods) attempts to pitch the company to people outside of the conference, only to be arrested by the police in an incident involving Adderall. Monica (Amanda Crew) tells Richard that she has been called back to Palo Alto as a result of Belson's presentation, and offers to have a drink with him afterward.
At night, retrieved to their hotel rooms, the Pied Piper team remains pessimistic about the presentation, but Erlich proclaims that he would go as far as giving every man in the conference room handjobs just for the team to win.
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