With nearly 100 people dead from Hurricane Sandy, our city in crisis and New Yorkers and Jerseyites risking their lives to help one another, along comes the most shallow, self-absorbed, reality show from the land of silicon and silicone.
It’s Bravo’s “Start-Ups: Silicone Valley” and it’s a show which focuses on a bunch of pretty, white young entrepreneurs with a sense of entitlement that is actually so revolting — especially in this day of mourning and sadness — that you might want to throw your TV set through a window. If you still have a TV. Or a window.
Here we have a British brother and sister who claim to have 43 companies yet are seeing a venture capitalist and expecting him to hand them $500,000 for their pitch, which they’ve brought to him on their laptop.
The sister, so, so cool, decides to take a nap under the man’s conference table and the brother takes a cushion off the couch so she can be comfy. The VC comes in and sees her under his table and isn’t as amused as she assumes he’d be. The brother actually says, after a request for information, “I find it slightly disrespectful [for him] to go through our pitch deck.” What? They just don’t get it.
Then there’s the obnoxious “life caster” who shares the brilliance of her life on video blogs. She has managed to get a hotel to give her a free luxury room so she and her miniature dog can sleep in comfort and order room service.
There are other regulars, equally as annoying, like the guy who’s had a bunch of plastic surgery procedures and two programmers who are set to change the world one code at a time.
These idiots would have looked boring and shallow last week, but this week they look repulsive. Stay away from “Silicone Valley.”