I think the writers made the joke that: at an Ivey league school like Stanford, you can’t get in as a student if you’re mediocre, but they’ll hire anyone to teach as long as they did something famous...
Let’s be clear , no one knew how big head got to the top ( other than some people ) ... and everybody thought that somebody who got on wired cover page like that would know what to do and how to do it ! They probably thought of him as bill gates returning to take his degree
Yeah but even after some teachers on Stanford learned that Big Head wasn't the genius that everyone thought he menaged to fail his way to the presidency of Stanford.
@@caglioso in capacity and role yes, but they are slightly different. A president of a university has to be elected or appointed. A chancellor is strictly appointed, although it can be done so by election. The major difference is the people appointing. A president would be appoint by a committee or board of directors within the school or country scholastic system. This can also include 3rd parties like the government, businesses, and individuals of wealth/influence. A chancellor will often be appointed by the governing body or invested party. Kingdoms and Dukedoms would appoint them within their region, or if the school was entirely privately funded then the investor/s would appoint them. Headmaster and Chancellor suffer a similar difference to. They are the same except a head master can be self-appointed, like if they owned the school themselves.
Really sad how its been flooded with nepo babies as of recent. Possibly even worse than business or finance. Atleast those guys have a chance at getting an internship LOL
@@honkhonk8009 I gave a new hire my project notes for something in September and today realized what he turned in didn't work when I went to integrate that component. I knew I had about 90% of it done at the time I sent it over so I took the notes I gave him and gave it to the latest GPT. Had a solution up and running within 30 minutes. I'm not worried about me being replaced because I'm pretty awesome and do lots of roles but some of these new guys need to step up their game or they'll be phased out in favor of the ever-eager llms
I was once employed at a multi-billion dollar hardware company as an Intermediate Solder Technician for 60k/year. I had never once touched a Solder gun. First I applied by filling out almost nothing on their online application except my name and contact info then uploaded a flaky Resume on it. I had to bc I needed evidence to keep my Unemployment Check coming. They called me for an interview, which stunned me. What I did do was be myself at that interview. By that, I mean I answered EVERY singe interview question with something I did in World of Warcraft. I told them, I hate overtime, I don't manage my time well, I have no ambition. They hired me immediately. Turns out, 3 of 4 interviewers were hardcore MMORPG players from Everquest, Eve, and SWOTR. I was hired in October with 168 hours of vacation pay for the rest of the year. Which i burned through got my paid holidays and quit in Feb. It was pretty cool.
Oh shit. . . I've seen this scene at least 50-times, and JUST NOW I get the joke. Until this, I thought "Inside" was the name of another magazine he was on the cover of, not that he was "INSIDE" the issue of Wired he was on the cover of. I've Bigheaded that joke all this time.
No, you've got it exactly backwards. Getting into most elite schools, like Stanford, can be insanely difficult but once you're in it's not nearly the same challenge to stay. Grade inflation and Gentleman's Cs are real. Plus one of the metrics publications like US News & World Report use to rank colleges/universities is graduation rates. So many top tier schools are somewhat "incentivized" to not fail people. You might not have a very good GPA at the end of your time there, but you aren't likely to get the heave-ho unless you aren't trying at all.
The way life turned out for Big Head was like truly a wow moment throughout the season, this series is like so much fun because it actually tells how crazy Silicon Valley is, anything can happen thee, including in Stanford
I wish this show would have played out their scenes a little longer. Show him trying to lecture, don't just allude to it. There are lots of points in this show where they omit the next scene because they assume we already got the joke. Sure we got it, but it would be funny to continue and play it out.
I worked at a firm where they made fun of people that came from Stanford. The joke was they went to Stanford got a degree in Finance, they all went to work for Bank of America. Bank of America gave them a software program where they didn’t have to think and didn’t learn anything... then 10 years later nobody else would ever hire them so they were stuck making 80k a year
I've been a Big Head my entire career. Early on I put myself in the right place (San Francisco) at the right time (pretty much any time) and surrounded myself with smart and ambitious people. Poof, opportunity rained down on my head. All it took was letting go of my safe hometown situation and the dive bar, watching sports every weekend lifestyle. I'm not the smartest guy in the room or even the hardest working but I took some risks early on and that's really all it took. And now I get to go jump in my the pool with my dogs.
Fábio Ramos Even if he was useless, he kept getting higher, easier and better positions in life. BigHead had impeccable luck. The one thing Pied Piper needed a lot
I dont think I have seen many people fail upwards like this, but I have seen many people with no ability bluster their way to the top when I worked in tech...
What's so wholesome and extra funny about BH though is that he's never even blustery. He just sort of stumbles into these outrageous successes with just as much confusion as the audience lol
No. In fact there is some hostility toward apple among many tech enthusiasts. Last that I was a TA of primary school level block coding, both myself and the head teacher were like wtf are these mac things and how do you use them. So no.
So I was a CS student at my college, and literally, almost all the other students including myself used ThinkPads or other business-class notebooks with Linux installed or Windows with a Linux Virtual Machine. The kids with the gaming laptops and Macs who thought it was going to be hacker hijinks, and playing video games/partying all the time because they watched the Facebook movie and other tech movies that falsely portray the IT community were quick to drop out or change majors. On the other hand, though, the video production majors and recording arts majors all had Macbooks.
I once asked a computer tech a similar question. He replied, "Why do macs only have a single button on their mouse? Because apple users are too fucking stupid to understand 'Right Click.'"
your thinking of halt and catch fire which premiered around the same time as this show and takes place in the late 70s to 80s. this show is about all the tech start ups that happened in the past decade. it's kind of a spoof. and it really faded imo. neither is halt and catch fire
I love that big head just continually fails upwards. Really my hero.
he hates newton
Yeah, I would like to have that, too. Only lemons for me ... lately.
"Why is my name on the board?...Oh! Nooo"
*PERFECT*
Haha, he did say that. Lol
"I am a class clown, already!"
You know the homework and pass/fail thing make a lot of sense in hindsight.
Huh?
What??? *Walks into the kitchen*
@@davidf2244 Since he's the guest lecturer he decides on homework and grading
that's-the-joke.gif
From guest lecturer to head of Stamford, Big Head's done it all.
Big head was a professor that get his class to started a successful company within a semester.
*Stanford
Stamford's a town in Connecticut
the most unrealistic part of the show IMO lol
@@Norsilca In the last episode of the show Big Head says Stamford instead of Stanford.
@@xxxdumbwordstupidnumberxxx4844 Oh shit really? I totally forgot. That's great
He’s the professor oh my god. I realized it the same time he did.
Well no, that'd be crazy. He's a guest lecturer.
Not only was he professor there, but the President of the university by the end.
yea no shit
Realistically they would also give him an honorary degree simply for being famous.
I always burst into laughter when I see big head realising the fuck he's in saying "oh! No!"
The big gulp kills me everytime
"...actually, inside too!"
I think the writers made the joke that: at an Ivey league school like Stanford, you can’t get in as a student if you’re mediocre, but they’ll hire anyone to teach as long as they did something famous...
Stanford is not an ivy league...
Let’s be clear , no one knew how big head got to the top ( other than some people ) ... and everybody thought that somebody who got on wired cover page like that would know what to do and how to do it ! They probably thought of him as bill gates returning to take his degree
Yeah but even after some teachers on Stanford learned that Big Head wasn't the genius that everyone thought he menaged to fail his way to the presidency of Stanford.
stanford is not ivy league ballface
Chessy Peanut someone already said that ballface
He could teach students how to fail upward but Im afraid if he tried he would end up VP of education at Stanford.
Spoiler: He actually becomes president hahaha
He will become stanford president
5 years at ASU, only C's but mostly incompletes? No degree? I'm pretty sure Bighead is based on me, HBO has been spying on me
C's get degrees got my grade 10 with all C's
@@Pete0126 you'd think that C's get degrees but all my C's got me was debt. C'est la vie I guess
@@Pete0126 If you get C's in any IVY league schools. It's bye bye. Doesn't meet the gpa standards.
fear the fork, not the debt
Maybe you could also make it big just keep plugging in the right places
"Do you think that wearing the sweatshirt of the school you're going to to class is the same as wearing a band's t-shirt to a concert?"
"What"
Love how self aware he is
He's completely oblivious lol
@@alecjones4676 you're oblivious it seems. ya got no likes
@@enkryptron Not anymore
I love that he becomes the chancellor of Stanford at the end
President.
I think those titles mean the same thing.
@@caglioso in capacity and role yes, but they are slightly different. A president of a university has to be elected or appointed. A chancellor is strictly appointed, although it can be done so by election. The major difference is the people appointing. A president would be appoint by a committee or board of directors within the school or country scholastic system. This can also include 3rd parties like the government, businesses, and individuals of wealth/influence. A chancellor will often be appointed by the governing body or invested party. Kingdoms and Dukedoms would appoint them within their region, or if the school was entirely privately funded then the investor/s would appoint them.
Headmaster and Chancellor suffer a similar difference to. They are the same except a head master can be self-appointed, like if they owned the school themselves.
Sae Blank um, this is a Wendy’s. 😎😎😎
@@yummychips_ i am pretty much sure everyone in the comments section left while u were trying so hard to explain it .... like in the video .....
"Really more imcompletes than anything"
"Yeah a lot of those classes were at 11am, so..."
I can so relate bro
If you’re in tech, we all know a Bighead!
Really sad how its been flooded with nepo babies as of recent.
Possibly even worse than business or finance. Atleast those guys have a chance at getting an internship LOL
@@honkhonk8009 I gave a new hire my project notes for something in September and today realized what he turned in didn't work when I went to integrate that component. I knew I had about 90% of it done at the time I sent it over so I took the notes I gave him and gave it to the latest GPT. Had a solution up and running within 30 minutes. I'm not worried about me being replaced because I'm pretty awesome and do lots of roles but some of these new guys need to step up their game or they'll be phased out in favor of the ever-eager llms
@@honkhonk8009 what do you mean? it was nepo babies the whole time. the only difference now is that SV is 90% importing indians
Big Head found out earlythat the key to success is through failure and he is smart enough not to upset this winning formula.
LOL this taking a jab at Stanford's CS culture
Big Head is like Forest Gump of SV
Underrated comment
man big head is the best
I've lived with someone as unmotivated and clueless as Big Head. He even had the same haircut and monotony. He is not the best.
In a show full of great characters - he’s the best. He’s essentially the Homer Simpson of ‘Silicon Valley.’
I can't tell whether they are praising Big Head or making fun of Stanford.
Making fun of schools in general
Just continuing that chain of Big Head having huge opportunities just fall into his lap from sheer luck
@@NateB If that was true his class wouldn't have been a success.
When you fail so much at life that you actually fail at failing
I was once employed at a multi-billion dollar hardware company as an Intermediate Solder Technician for 60k/year. I had never once touched a Solder gun. First I applied by filling out almost nothing on their online application except my name and contact info then uploaded a flaky Resume on it. I had to bc I needed evidence to keep my Unemployment Check coming. They called me for an interview, which stunned me. What I did do was be myself at that interview. By that, I mean I answered EVERY singe interview question with something I did in World of Warcraft. I told them, I hate overtime, I don't manage my time well, I have no ambition. They hired me immediately. Turns out, 3 of 4 interviewers were hardcore MMORPG players from Everquest, Eve, and SWOTR.
I was hired in October with 168 hours of vacation pay for the rest of the year. Which i burned through got my paid holidays and quit in Feb. It was pretty cool.
Why did you quit?
@@xy-fm he had to collect more mounts
_cue videos of exploding rockets_
You realize Big Head isn't supposed to be a role model, right?
I find this very hard to believe, but it was amusing. So have a like.
Bighetti is the luckiest bastard. Only if he could recognize...
"Were you in the cover of WIRED magazine?"
"Yeah, and actually inside too!"
It gets me everytime.
Oh shit. . .
I've seen this scene at least 50-times, and JUST NOW I get the joke.
Until this, I thought "Inside" was the name of another magazine he was on the cover of, not that he was "INSIDE" the issue of Wired he was on the cover of.
I've Bigheaded that joke all this time.
@@BOBMAN1980 I think both interpretations are reasonable
“It stands for Venture Capita...” 😂
Well, it does.
Guess what? Being on the cover of magazines was exactly how Sam Bankman-Fried got all the VCs to invest into FTX too...
Oh right... Because Chinese...
"Oh okay... that makes sense"
Death to CCP. Free China. Free Hong Kong.
@@joshuavickers9820 whoa now. We don't want to free China. Just the Hong Kong part. The rest is poor real estate
@@joshuavickers9820 free china
@@alexanderblackwood9143 without free china you won’t get shit freed, not even the nipples
Getting into Stanford is one thing but to stay is another.
Stamford*
@@zaxypax there is actually university named Stamford. google it :D
No, you've got it exactly backwards. Getting into most elite schools, like Stanford, can be insanely difficult but once you're in it's not nearly the same challenge to stay. Grade inflation and Gentleman's Cs are real. Plus one of the metrics publications like US News & World Report use to rank colleges/universities is graduation rates. So many top tier schools are somewhat "incentivized" to not fail people. You might not have a very good GPA at the end of your time there, but you aren't likely to get the heave-ho unless you aren't trying at all.
It's ok, your phone has technology too
HE'S... c h i n e s e .
President Material
Big Head side quests are basically Todd side quests from Bojack Horseman
If you're wondering where else you may have seen the admissions chick, one place could be in the ITYSL sketch when that guy starts surfing on a table.
The way life turned out for Big Head was like truly a wow moment throughout the season, this series is like so much fun because it actually tells how crazy Silicon Valley is, anything can happen thee, including in Stanford
I wish this show would have played out their scenes a little longer. Show him trying to lecture, don't just allude to it. There are lots of points in this show where they omit the next scene because they assume we already got the joke. Sure we got it, but it would be funny to continue and play it out.
Even worse his class was at 10 am.
I worked at a firm where they made fun of people that came from Stanford. The joke was they went to Stanford got a degree in Finance, they all went to work for Bank of America. Bank of America gave them a software program where they didn’t have to think and didn’t learn anything... then 10 years later nobody else would ever hire them so they were stuck making 80k a year
Why is he using a Slurpee top with his Double Gulp cup
Can get more in 😎
He always falls upwards
My friend sounds and looks exactly like Big Head it’s scary
William Ortega He’s going to fail his way into success 😂
wufferr basically 😂
@@derek24211 I know one by that name too 😂😂
His mom calls him Large Head.
I've been a Big Head my entire career. Early on I put myself in the right place (San Francisco) at the right time (pretty much any time) and surrounded myself with smart and ambitious people. Poof, opportunity rained down on my head. All it took was letting go of my safe hometown situation and the dive bar, watching sports every weekend lifestyle. I'm not the smartest guy in the room or even the hardest working but I took some risks early on and that's really all it took. And now I get to go jump in my the pool with my dogs.
Now I wanna kms. Iv tried everything and my luck has been negative.
Wish I was born 30 years ago. Before all the jobs got sent to India/China.
oh no...
"Bachmannity was my VC Fund"
"WHAT?""
"Oh, it stands for Venture Capital"
lol
What's the song playing @2:38 ?
Sounds kinda like an Ok Go song.
Also curious about this if anybody knows...
I would kill to know what the track that plays at 2:35 is called
Erlic is a cool charactedr, but sometimes him being an asshole really hurts him, I can see how hiring BigHead would have been super beneficial.
he's utterly useless
they made him worse and worse over time cause the director really hated the actor
Fábio Ramos Even if he was useless, he kept getting higher, easier and better positions in life. BigHead had impeccable luck. The one thing Pied Piper needed a lot
@@TH3LAST5TAND Made who worse over time? Big Head or Erlich?
@@lonerider92 obviously Erlich
what's the music at 0:50 called?
Why are you asking me. How would i know
@@avengersendgame9706 No body is asking you..
I dont think I have seen many people fail upwards like this, but I have seen many people with no ability bluster their way to the top when I worked in tech...
What's so wholesome and extra funny about BH though is that he's never even blustery. He just sort of stumbles into these outrageous successes with just as much confusion as the audience lol
The people who fail upward usually are pretty arrogant, the opposite of big head. It's nice to see the opposite happen though, even if its a tv show.
Wait, isn’t he the tv host at the start of Last of us when they were talking about fungi?
Honest question to all cs student, are you all guys using mac like what was portrayed? More or less 90% of the class or just some bs
No. In fact there is some hostility toward apple among many tech enthusiasts.
Last that I was a TA of primary school level block coding, both myself and the head teacher were like wtf are these mac things and how do you use them.
So no.
@@jonahmann nice, thanks, as expected.
So I was a CS student at my college, and literally, almost all the other students including myself used ThinkPads or other business-class notebooks with Linux installed or Windows with a Linux Virtual Machine. The kids with the gaming laptops and Macs who thought it was going to be hacker hijinks, and playing video games/partying all the time because they watched the Facebook movie and other tech movies that falsely portray the IT community were quick to drop out or change majors. On the other hand, though, the video production majors and recording arts majors all had Macbooks.
@@lonerider92 thank you for the reply
I once asked a computer tech a similar question. He replied, "Why do macs only have a single button on their mouse? Because apple users are too fucking stupid to understand 'Right Click.'"
Try 106X for some fun
Diana! Just noticed this video has 163K views! Hahaha
Zakaria Alami hahahah saaaaa7! I kept tracking the views for a while it's crazy 😂😂😂
asking some questions here: who's the redhead who admitted Bighead? name of the actress please
2:45 she looks thicc af...
I know that this is intended to be funny but am I the only one that's borderline infuriated by this guy's goodluck?
Yes. Something is wrong with you mate. Big Head is one of the most loved characters in this show.
@@OjashShrestha95 I didn't say I hated him
He fails upward
@@atrumluminarium maybe not hate hate, but you said you were infuriated, you can see where he's coming from.
@@holohulolo Everyone in the show is infuriated with him. Its the response you are supposed to have.
Blacks: white privilege is no joke
Silicon Valley: hold my beer
..m
I’ve never watched this show but doesn’t it take place in the 80s, unless I’m really wrong I don’t think they had Mac books then
Is this set in a more recent time period or something
No, it's modern day
oloblish ok that makes sense thanks
your thinking of halt and catch fire which premiered around the same time as this show and takes place in the late 70s to 80s. this show is about all the tech start ups that happened in the past decade. it's kind of a spoof. and it really faded imo. neither is halt and catch fire
You’re really wrong
who better to work on this classifier than the creator of nip alert