Pretty good season, they hit the topline Valley memes and annoyances.
The only things that bugged me were that he started his compression algo when gainfully employed at Hooli. If he didn't declare it to HR/His Boss, they could've just easily sued for ownership since he used company time, resources, and was privy to similar Hooli projects.
His company is a compression algorithm. This isn't the basis for a startup, and if it was, it woulda been bought after the seed stage by Google or a random cloud company. Even if it kept building, TC Disrupt winners are only consumer facing products, this is a purely back-end product that would get 0 coverage on TC.
The Hooli vs. VC "fight". Major companies do make knock-offs of popular startups, but that usually occurs way down the line once startups reach exit velocity and are already critically known. At this stage, it would be more likely Hooli just over-offers to buy Pied Piper back and provide the VC an easy exit. The Valley is very incestual in this manner. The amount of people who have Goog/FB/Twitter/Pinterest backgrounds with one startup acquired back in to the fold is out of control. It's a literal carousel of the same names.
Pretty good season. The show is really driven by Ehrlich, Gilfoyle, and Dinesh. Those 3 are great.