We built a shitty FB app with some fancy features and sold the shit out of it as the next big thing in that space.
It was average at best, they bought it, we made bank, worked for half a year and left to start a company doing what we want to do, without needing any funding.
I have to say though that Marissa seems like a great boss to work for. She definitely rewards loyalty!
The next great SV satire should be a House of Cards parody. House Brin & Page vs House Bezos vs House Zuckerberg.
How would it go?
Brin & Page and their academics try to get everything scientifically done while the Zuckerberg hackers run circles around them and Bezos sells both of them the infrastructure for their fights?