Silicon Valley may be satire, but the HBO television show hits eerily close to home for many people in the technology and start-up worlds. Among the many things it gets right is the tech world’s obsession with co-working spaces.
On the show, the absurdly arrogant yet lazy Erlich Bachman runs his own incubator, inviting founders to live and work in his home. Eventually he gets some competition from Big Head, a similarly aimless character who turns his newly purchased mansion into another incubator.