Richard's revenue plan will take too long - "In March of 2000, do you know when a four-year plan ended? April of 2000." That's why the product needs to move faster. "You know we're in a bubble right now, right? Or maybe you don't know, you weren't around for the last bubble, you were probably in diapers." But Jack wasn't in diapers, he says proudly.
When Richard confronts Jack on the subject - he's always imagined Pied Piper as peer to peer - Jack has another spiel for him. First, they inform Richard, the company should be an enterprise one - they'll sell Pied Piper to businesses, not individual users. Immediately, they're starting to make changes to the product. With Dinesh and Gilfoyle distracted by the new office's catering, that compromise begins with Jack's newly imported sales team. One triangle: engineering and manufacturing. Consider Jack's diagram of the "Conjoined Triangles of Success," a template he designed that's now being taught at business schools, he says. That question underlies the tension of this second episode in Silicon Valley's third season. "When they started bringing in chefs and masseuses, we thought, they're nuts! But they were attracting the best possible people and they were able to create the best possible product." Jack' philosophy: "All of this is a sound investment as long as we're able to get the best people and make the best possible product." But what is that product? While Richard, who has accepted a demotion to Chief Technical Officer, is skeptical of the new company purchases, Jack recalls that when Google was "a startup just like us," they did the same.
To justify new office space and perks for the Pied Piper team, incoming CEO Jack Barker delivers a well-worn anecdote.
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