
Pied Piper decide to hire all of Optimoji's staff, but Duncan has already acquired them for Sliceline, infuriating Richard. Richard almost manages to get her to concede on this, but Duncan, CEO of pizza-ordering app Sliceline, encounters them and reveals Belson's plot, alerting Kira to the fact that Richard is desperate, giving her more leverage. Jared suggests acquiring failing startup Optimoji to raid its staff but its CEO, Kira, insists they retain all 30 staff.


The developers and a milestone award make Belson feel ancient, though his Box2 is poised to become a huge money-maker.

See also: List of Silicon Valley episodes No.ĭinesh and Gilfoyle procrastinate on new hires, and Belson hires all 63 distributed-systems developers in the valley.
