Conjoined Triangles of Success

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  • Jack "Action Jack" Barker's own creation, the Conjoined Triangle of Success, now taught at business schools! The serendipity of the coincidence!
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    From HBO's Silicon Valley

КОМЕНТАРІ • 144

  • @thatguywiththeface9463
    @thatguywiththeface9463 Рік тому +1357

    Brilliant writing. 'Conjoined triangles of success' aka a box, of which he literally cannot think outside of.

    • @And-ur6ol
      @And-ur6ol Рік тому +29

      but now they teach it at howard!
      Also, Merry christmas

    • @2tiddies404
      @2tiddies404 10 місяців тому +6

      and then he literally becomes a hostage because of it. so funny

    • @Capitan_Chaos
      @Capitan_Chaos 10 місяців тому +12

      Nice explanation. Never thought of it like that.

    • @0veratedcrazyness
      @0veratedcrazyness 8 місяців тому +8

      That's such a good observation, makes it even funnier!

    • @spare1793
      @spare1793 8 місяців тому

      And literally building 😂

  • @ripulisipulit
    @ripulisipulit Рік тому +902

    "Compromise is the shared hypotenuse of the conjoined triangles of success" I can't explain why I love that line so much. He looks so proud to explain that bit of it.

    • @HectorGarayJrTV
      @HectorGarayJrTV Рік тому +3

      😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

    • @spcwrnglr
      @spcwrnglr Рік тому +9

      Not just impressed, but surprised that it was pointed out.

    • @Rilex037
      @Rilex037 Рік тому +2

      why is it funny? cause nobody gets the angle they wanted?

    • @bradmetcalf5333
      @bradmetcalf5333 10 місяців тому +5

      He's so proud Richard pointed it out lol

    • @shrisheel
      @shrisheel 6 місяців тому

      Didn’t he put one of his conjoined triangles on George’s head and turned him into an Eggplant in the 90s?

  • @ValseInstrumentalist
    @ValseInstrumentalist 2 роки тому +627

    "You're right... I did that wrong." Gotta love Tobo.

    • @jkta97
      @jkta97 Рік тому +20

      The funny thing is if he had left out the last question out of his Google monologue, it would have been a pretty good speech.

    • @drewg4323
      @drewg4323 Рік тому +11

      ​ @jkta97 It still was a pretty good speech because Tobo is just that good

  • @hazelxhouse
    @hazelxhouse 2 роки тому +471

    "A box. They make a box. You can't make that shit up" 😂😂😂

    • @omkarbhambure9530
      @omkarbhambure9530 Рік тому +17

      But you did

    • @MirzaAhmed89
      @MirzaAhmed89 Рік тому +24

      @@omkarbhambure9530 Yes, I did. And now, they teach it at business schools.

  • @prajwas2004
    @prajwas2004 Рік тому +323

    ".. but i was referring to the serendipity of the coincidence" 😂.
    Great writing!

    • @jeewillikers
      @jeewillikers Рік тому +3

      I love the actor's delivery of that line as well

  • @Canonfudder
    @Canonfudder Рік тому +188

    Developers! Developers! Developers!

    • @schwartzseymour357
      @schwartzseymour357 Рік тому +13

      Advertising! Advertising! Advertising! Why build a product when you can sell it beforehand? Why hire engineers when you can hire managers? And if that doesn't work out, and the project fails, you can fire everybody...:D

    • @the_shah_of_iran
      @the_shah_of_iran Місяць тому +1

      Add a little armpit sweat to the mix, and you sir got yourself a Steve Balmer 😂

  • @FP19487
    @FP19487 Рік тому +326

    This actor is crazy underrated. He’s so hilarious

    • @jameshagan2832
      @jameshagan2832 Рік тому +6

      Also was great in Californication among other things

    • @donaldoconner
      @donaldoconner Рік тому +6

      Stephen Tobolowski

    • @gorgolyt
      @gorgolyt Рік тому +23

      Ned
      RYERSON

    • @jrmungandr
      @jrmungandr Рік тому +3

      @@gorgolyt …bing?

    • @Gna-rn7zx
      @Gna-rn7zx Рік тому +7

      "I never said Sammy Jankis was faking..."

  • @ThunderAppeal
    @ThunderAppeal Рік тому +167

    Anyone who has ever gone to business school, or taken 1 years of business classes will have a deep appreciation for Jack Barkers 'Conjoined Triangles of Success' .

    • @yougeo
      @yougeo 10 місяців тому +23

      The higher your level of business education the more simplistic and abstract become the teachings so you soon get to the level of kindergarten or you're drawing boxes and telling people to stay in or outside the box.

    • @ogmadigital677
      @ogmadigital677 9 місяців тому +4

      Honestly, any field where the emphasis becomes about teaching theory will find a place within the conjoined triangles. I have seen some *crazed* diagrams supposedly supporting best practice, usually pushed by someone with third-hand experience.

  • @yougeo
    @yougeo 10 місяців тому +104

    Silicon Valley is the genius business show of this century. It exposes the BS the upper management office says and gets away with and it exposes the dirty insider secrets of starting a public startup and the maneuvering that goes on in board rooms and the nonsense. The technical trickery the camaraderie everything. And it's just funny as hell. But it's better than any nba. Just watch every season and write down everything that happens and take notes. It's a master business class.

    • @hatersgonnalovethis
      @hatersgonnalovethis 8 місяців тому +7

      I agree. Saw that first hand. What I do not like is that rollercoaster story telling. Every time they fail they succeed. Every time they succeed, they fail. It‘s boring.

    • @jovandejanovic2835
      @jovandejanovic2835 6 місяців тому +2

      ​@@hatersgonnalovethisIt's more realistic that they stumbled into success, or as you say that every time they failed - they succeed, and vice versa. They were inexperienced and naïve - regardless of how talented or revolutionary were their ideas.
      Really makes Gavin's character stand out from the rest, he kept the company alive in such a rapidly evolving field. I wouldn't exactly call him a good leader or good investor or visionary, but playing by the rules only moves people towards short-term goals and success.
      It also shows how a single person isn't enough for long-term success in such field, and the importance of having rivals instead of friends.

    • @pavsoor
      @pavsoor 6 місяців тому

      @@hatersgonnalovethis And the sombre music every time they 'fail'

    • @warriordx5520
      @warriordx5520 21 день тому

      I thought you meant better than watching the nba 😂😂

  • @tres-adames
    @tres-adames 8 місяців тому +190

    I love how confusing and unhelpful that poster is. When you take a business class, you see a bunch of diagrams like that in textbooks and wonder if you’re just dumb and don’t understand it. No, the diagram is dumb and someone made it up to appear smart.

    • @anon746912
      @anon746912 4 місяці тому +4

      The diagram itself is usually meaningless, it just exists as a vehicle to deliver the words

  • @GeneralBlorp
    @GeneralBlorp Рік тому +190

    This is frightening close to reality in almost every sector of commercial society 😅

  • @Slop_Dogg
    @Slop_Dogg Рік тому +73

    He’s such a tool, just the perfect portrayal

  • @crooper6052
    @crooper6052 6 місяців тому +24

    Tech people working in Silicon Valley say they hate watching this show because of how accurate it is

    • @BIacklce
      @BIacklce 2 дні тому

      tech people in general

  • @JustinArchey321
    @JustinArchey321 Рік тому +56

    Love the music as Jack goes to his personal Hell in Sub-Basement D!

    • @Aprarpa
      @Aprarpa Рік тому +4

      Yeah it's hip and yet also perfectly captures a semi-banal fall from grace. The colors and the stiff pace of walking through the data center was also pretty great!

  • @dixonyamada6969
    @dixonyamada6969 10 місяців тому +81

    my strategy professor who went to harvard (AB, MBA, PhD) talks exactly like this, but in reference to strategy terms like PESTEL and Five Forces. it's low key insufferable. but i think he's smart. i honestly cant tell.

    • @Dheeidjdndbd
      @Dheeidjdndbd 9 місяців тому +14

      There are plenty of smart people who haven’t done an ounce of application of any theory a day in their lives.
      They are smart, but a lot of times lack real world context that is really important when it comes to decision making.

    • @dixonyamada6969
      @dixonyamada6969 9 місяців тому +10

      @@Dheeidjdndbd the thing is he has like 20+ years of experience in consulting. but he never worked at a big firm, he started his consulting practice after his PhD and just stuck with it. im not gonna lie it all sounded like mumbo jumbo to me lol.

    • @Dheeidjdndbd
      @Dheeidjdndbd 9 місяців тому

      @@dixonyamada6969 exactly he consulted but never actually did any of the in the weeds shit to implement this stuff. He would go in and say “you need a team who does x. And fire y people here” but was never an operator so he doesn’t understand the knock on effects well enough to make the best decisions in a real world environment as opposed to an academic vacuum.

    • @Kot-fj6hc
      @Kot-fj6hc 6 місяців тому

      ​@@dixonyamada6969Then he's probably never done application of things at any point in his life

    • @Dheeidjdndbd
      @Dheeidjdndbd 19 днів тому

      @@dixonyamada6969 Consulting is
      1 - Identifying problems/inefficiencies
      2 - identifying solutions
      The hard part is actually the one they don’t do - implement the solutions they offer.

  • @theencryptedpartition4633
    @theencryptedpartition4633 Рік тому +106

    That’s basically how I see all the Business Management lectures, math and Econs are better

    • @eralddavid6892
      @eralddavid6892 Рік тому +18

      Bro, econs also full of sh*t, especially the macroeconomics part. But yeah math is way better

    • @highviewbarbell
      @highviewbarbell Рік тому +4

      Im glad we all agree Mathematics wins

    • @xandercrews4729
      @xandercrews4729 Рік тому +3

      @@highviewbarbell with no application, math is pointless

    • @highviewbarbell
      @highviewbarbell Рік тому

      @@xandercrews4729 the math for computers was worked out like a hundred years before we could make them. Then, when we could, the math was already there waiting.

    • @michelleh.5225
      @michelleh.5225 Рік тому +2

      Economics was my fave business class, finance was second because it's so useful. I hated Marketing LOL

  • @BusyBodyVisa
    @BusyBodyVisa 6 місяців тому +48

    Jack Barker was actually a good CEO. He made Richard and the gang excited about building his box

    • @CHURCHISAWESUM
      @CHURCHISAWESUM 5 місяців тому +2

      He was terrible lol

    • @joseph_p
      @joseph_p 12 днів тому

      The box is actually a great product for businesses.

  • @nonamernobrainer846
    @nonamernobrainer846 Рік тому +106

    Anyone that's had a Business Strategy class has dealt with this shit

  • @eudaimonia9386
    @eudaimonia9386 11 місяців тому +13

    "I think this thing is dead", as his head is framed by the conjoined triangles of success.

  • @owenreese2216
    @owenreese2216 Рік тому +107

    And now they teach it in business schools

    • @michelleh.5225
      @michelleh.5225 Рік тому +9

      Funny thing, I went to business school and they actually teach this kind of shit there.

    • @Aheitchoo
      @Aheitchoo 2 місяці тому

      most certainly an indictment of buisness school more than it is praise for the conjoined triangle of success.

  • @shaboopie12
    @shaboopie12 4 місяці тому +4

    This show is so insanely well-layered and executed. @ 0:54 You can totally imagine a CEO of some generic company giving this rehearsed talk. 😆

  • @siphillis
    @siphillis 2 місяці тому +1

    Gavin shoving Jack into the smallest box he could find at Hooli was deeply cathartic

  • @tropicten
    @tropicten 10 місяців тому +21

    Wow. This is way too close to reality for me. Only my manager’s “chart” was a bunch of overlapping circles. That was an interesting first meeting.

  • @JarrettMazza
    @JarrettMazza Рік тому +24

    "Serendipity of the coincidence."

  • @Shifty20
    @Shifty20 10 місяців тому +8

    When I was in business school this is the bs they teach people. I currently have an amazing job in the tech sector as a manger. I see fresh mba hires all the time talking about how they’re going to change everything. They all talk with the same BS business buzzwords. How they will be the new CEO and get upset when they don’t get promoted quickly. A lot leave and I get pings from them years later hoping they can get their old job back. My company pays extremely well and is honestly amazing. It took me years and luck to get where I am. They all think every company is like mine. The real world is super scary if you don’t have real connections to hook you up.

  • @bingeMAFIA
    @bingeMAFIA 15 днів тому +2

    This was brilliantly created by Mike Judge.

  • @MoeSalamaIbrahim
    @MoeSalamaIbrahim 11 місяців тому +14

    5:13 The way Barker taps the shoulder of the translator is so condescending and ignorant.

  • @steverogers7601
    @steverogers7601 Рік тому +86

    These dudes are always the same. They use all of the positive rhetoric, they speak with inspiring terms, then they develop a nonsense framework to peddle to their peers and leadership...
    Then turn around and just do what’s the cheapest and what will progress their careers.

    • @latinolawdog5067
      @latinolawdog5067 10 місяців тому +2

      People do the same thing. We all want the cheapest possible price in whatever we buy.

    • @steverogers7601
      @steverogers7601 10 місяців тому +5

      @@latinolawdog5067 this is the kind of rhetoric that eventually devolves into “At the end of the day, nothing really matters so why not!”

    • @latinolawdog5067
      @latinolawdog5067 8 місяців тому

      @@steverogers7601 it’s not “rhetoric”, it’s human nature. You want to a.) make the most money you can in your job while b.) paying the least money you can in everything you purchase.
      I GUARANTEE you have never once in your life looked at an item and said “kind sir, I want to pay MORE than what you are asking for that product. I do not want to pay the cheapest I can get it, I want to pay more than what is necessary! 😂”
      Does that make you “cheap as fuck” and “selfish”? Of course not. It makes you human. If you ever run a business, you would do the exact same thing.
      This whole “‘rich and powerful people are keeping us down, brooooooo” bullshit you are spewing reeks of somebody who doesn’t have the talent, drive, and initiative to get ahead in life and resorts to jealousy in snide UA-cam comments to cope. Pretty sure this is the case with you, I’m sorry. Take care.

  • @TheAceOfOnes
    @TheAceOfOnes 11 днів тому

    I got the conjoined triangles of success on a coffee mug so I can walk around and tell people that “they teach this in business school!”

  • @JustSwivel2
    @JustSwivel2 10 місяців тому +10

    Now that's acute concept.

    • @ben_car_8115
      @ben_car_8115 6 місяців тому +1

      From some perspectives, it’s the right concept

  • @YD-uq5fi
    @YD-uq5fi Рік тому +20

    'Engineering and Sales should both decide'. LOL. It is called Marketing. Jack Barker thinks like a 2000s-era Chinese OEM.

  • @twisterwiper
    @twisterwiper Рік тому +35

    This is closer to reality than I care to acknowledge 😆

  • @HopcxSyvoalw
    @HopcxSyvoalw Рік тому +11

    Peter drucker would be proud

  • @oFinalSolution
    @oFinalSolution 11 місяців тому +9

    MBA is very useful and smart person degree!

  • @mellow-jello
    @mellow-jello Рік тому +5

    Triangles don't work out for those who are obtuse to their current situation. He just does not get it.

  • @fifthcarcrash
    @fifthcarcrash 2 роки тому +13

    Why this not my life already

  • @EduardoLopez-tged
    @EduardoLopez-tged 8 місяців тому +7

    Its funny but he isn't wrong. I work in tech, and I have seen so many times the tech team obsessed with building something that doesn't take into account customer needs. The have shocked pickachu face when whatever was implemented its lambasted or worse, ignored completely

  • @JoseDiaz12
    @JoseDiaz12 6 місяців тому

    "The serendipity of the coincidence" I so wish this Jack had it out with Jack Donaghy just once, the fireworks

  • @MlSTA_GREEN
    @MlSTA_GREEN 4 місяці тому

    I like how he occasionally interjects math to make his arbitrary triangle akin to Newton or Leibniz.

  • @infinitygohan
    @infinitygohan 7 місяців тому +1

    "I am here to PROVE to you that HE is WRONG!"
    Jung Shao: :(

  • @edwardfetner2513
    @edwardfetner2513 8 місяців тому +1

    took me all this time to realize he was a Ballmer parody

  • @SuperHipsterGamer
    @SuperHipsterGamer 8 місяців тому

    Jack Barker reminds me of why I switched from Business to Math many years ago.

  • @DAVA653
    @DAVA653 5 місяців тому +3

    The worker hostage situation is based off an event that actually happened lol look up Chip Starnes. Flew to Beijing to lay off a factory and they took him hostage/kept him there against his will. Police refused to interfere, stating that it was a matter of labour negotiations and not a kidnapping 😂😂😂

  • @nickeldan
    @nickeldan 3 дні тому

    This reminds me of when MMT people talk Econ.

  • @ValhayaPC
    @ValhayaPC 2 місяці тому

    Im in business and i have this post on my wall for a little inside joke

  • @Jason-o5s
    @Jason-o5s 28 днів тому

    Cheer~~~combining all or both people or things involved.😊

  • @burhanuddinsakarwala5033
    @burhanuddinsakarwala5033 Рік тому +11

    I've met too many of these people. A very small fraction of them know what they're talking about. The rest are just placeholders to be shuffled around by the people who are really in charge.

  • @Sportrmpmusty
    @Sportrmpmusty 5 місяців тому

    “But you…literally did make it up”🤣

  • @PaintedBattletoads
    @PaintedBattletoads 4 місяці тому

    reminds me so much of those "7 habits" triangles from Covey. I wonder if they took inspiration lol

  • @keysersoze657
    @keysersoze657 Рік тому +7

    Remember Sammy Jankis

  • @albertegido2858
    @albertegido2858 9 місяців тому +1

    I crave for the Conjoined Triangles of Success

  • @joshuawood362
    @joshuawood362 Рік тому +5

    thats ned ryerson from groundhog day

  • @yinghanfu9047
    @yinghanfu9047 8 місяців тому

    People treat this as a bit but it's indistinguishable from what's being taught at business schools.

  • @sitrakaforler8696
    @sitrakaforler8696 8 місяців тому +1

    I loved this show !
    So sad I didn't started a start up in 2017 with free money hahah

  • @dmitriivanov7143
    @dmitriivanov7143 8 місяців тому +2

    I have one hanging on the wall in my home office. Looking at it every day.

    • @thousandyoung
      @thousandyoung 7 місяців тому +2

      You can't make that shit up!!!

  • @adityasingh-qm6wd
    @adityasingh-qm6wd Рік тому +10

    In my current company I have a director like this and I have to work under him.😢

    • @FayezButts
      @FayezButts 8 місяців тому

      You should show him the triangles of success

  • @harinadhappidi3399
    @harinadhappidi3399 2 місяці тому

    This feels so Aws right now

  • @tchombre1992
    @tchombre1992 9 днів тому

    It's kind of crazy that for as smart Richard is he can't grab the concept of The Conjoined Triangles of Success.... I mean they teach it at business schools for Christs sake.

  • @leonkernan
    @leonkernan 7 місяців тому

    And now he's selling Unifi gear.

  • @MaxPaint-c8m
    @MaxPaint-c8m 10 місяців тому +1

    Jack ended up being right

  • @warriormvp
    @warriormvp 8 місяців тому +1

    Ned? Ned Ryerson?

  • @dingodingding
    @dingodingding 10 місяців тому +1

    BCG Product Portfolio Matrix

  • @amitnagpal1985
    @amitnagpal1985 5 місяців тому

    FYI Steve Balmer is worth more than 100 billion dollars thanks to conjoined triangle of success.

  • @PCDisciple
    @PCDisciple 10 місяців тому

    This dude is a master salesman and gaslighter lol

  • @DSAK55
    @DSAK55 8 місяців тому +1

    Ned Ryerson!!

  • @z50king29
    @z50king29 4 місяці тому

    You know A V I A T O ?

  • @AYVYN
    @AYVYN 8 місяців тому +3

    Good for the Chinese workers

  • @thiagodeandrade7081
    @thiagodeandrade7081 Рік тому +6

    What the triangles have to do with actual floor work?

    • @compugasm
      @compugasm 10 місяців тому +2

      Because their conjoined, they form a square. And the people who build the Conjoined Triangles of Success will be working in cubicles. It almost writes itself.

  • @RoryWilliamson
    @RoryWilliamson Місяць тому

    Steve Ballmer

  • @thebrickfastclub1714
    @thebrickfastclub1714 5 місяців тому

    So, Who's the Boss?

  • @ResilientFighter
    @ResilientFighter 7 місяців тому

    they are worth 3 trillion now. Should have bought google stock

  • @rakuteno
    @rakuteno 6 місяців тому

    2:14

  • @uidentity
    @uidentity Рік тому +3

    why he speaks in Tim Cook's voice?

    • @Xalgucennia
      @Xalgucennia 11 місяців тому

      In a sense, all of the characters are stereotypes observed from people who used to work in tech, not surprising that they'd resemble some famous ones, though I get more of aa Bill Gates vibe from this guy

    • @theodoremcdonald9471
      @theodoremcdonald9471 10 місяців тому +2

      It's more Steve Balmer

  • @DuanneDames
    @DuanneDames 6 місяців тому

    This is too close to reality 😂

  • @tylerwinkle323
    @tylerwinkle323 8 місяців тому

    lol

  • @Xalgucennia
    @Xalgucennia 11 місяців тому

    To be fair, when he said 400 billion, it was either going to be apple or google

  • @Aditya-f8t5z
    @Aditya-f8t5z 9 місяців тому

    I once disparaged pyramids. 😓😓😓😓😓😓😓😓😓😓😓😓😓😓😓😓😓😓😓😓😓😓😓😓😓😓😓😓 My apologies to everyone associated with the pyramids. 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏