'Silicon Valley' trivia and fun facts

During the opening credits, you can see how the Facebook signal "eats" the Whatsapp and Oculus signal, referring to their purchase by Facebook.

Initially considered as a film before it was rewritten into a TV series.

Much of the main cast were friends or friendly in real life because they knew each other from the stand-up comedy world. Thomas Middleditch, T.J. Miller, Kumail Nanjiani and Josh Brener are all seasoned stand-ups.

Zach Woods has been known to improvise some of his lines on the show, including, "My uncle used to say, 'you look like someone starved a virgin to death.'"

The actors on the show at times are given freedom to improvise their scenes due to their backgrounds in stand-up and improvisation comedy.