Peter Gregory Hates College - Silicon Valley 

ends up the richest of everybody

good call. i'll have to look thru the scenes. He may be the "real brains" behind whole thing

He was my favorite character.

he would win the game of thrones lol

Yeah and the actor is actually a Harvard alumni lol which is sort of relevant in this context.

FYI lung cancer

I’m just learning this, wow!

At first I thought this was a joke about his on screen death...And then I read the comments...

Back then, there was rumors that he was supposed to appear in more scenes/episodes, but he was so sick he couldn't make it. That's why S1 feels kinda abrupt. Great actor, we should all be grateful, he was in so much pain, and still portrayed a character that makes us smile.

@@definitelynosebreather they wanted him for at least 3 seasons. He was supposed to be the opposite of Gavin belson

true but you shouldn't view college as something intangible either. you have to view it as a product because thats what it is on the other end. they literally are selling you a product. so if its alike buying a car. well you can buy a cadillac(ivy league) but do most people need that? you could buy an mercedes but can you afford that (repairs/ bad degree)? as long as you know what your buying its ok. but that wasnt what was discussed when i went to college. granted it worked out for me so im not against it, just being aware.

@@tiagomoraes1510 there’s nothing you can’t learn outside of school. You are just paying for a paper that says you know it enough to take a test. This is coming from a guy that dropped out and no trains and oversees people that are college graduates. Difference is I’m all self taught with no debt with more knowledge in the field than the college grads. Higher education is a waste if you are a person that is motivated to teach yourself new skills.

True. But the notion that "they were capable of being succesful without it" can never happen is bad. College is like, YOU HAVE TO GO. When in reality you don't. Only if you happen to need it you should, else you are better off without it.

@@Get_yotted Wow, you manage college grads when you don't have a degree???? Can I have your autograph, bro???

@@ginzo666 wow, you must be doing something even better!!! Can I have your autograph

compassion and gavin, lol

Exactly, if you reverse the argument and look at the success rate of all college drop outs you'll see that they are less successful than the graduates. People who drop out need a good reason for dropping out.

If you take the example of Zuckerberg, he went to what was basically a college from 14-18. Phillips Exeter Academy.

Not really there are those who didn't even make it to college some are High school drop out

to be perfectly honest, depending on some degrees, college can be completely useless. I have a diploma in psychology and now a degree in psychology and I went to a top 20 university in the world (NTU) and I learned more in my diploma than I ever did in my degree. My college "thesis" got an A when it would have at most scored me a B in my diploma. College taught me absolutely jack shit and I only went because my diploma would not afford me a job and I needed the degree. I know a bunch of people from engineering and business who said the same. I don't know about other fields, but at least for these few, going to college was just a giant time and money sink where 90% of the professors come in, read from slides in a horrible foreign accent that we don't understand, and leave. To me the reason why people fail if they drop out of college (besides the ones who actually aren't good at their respective fields) is because most companies wouldn't give them a chance if they didn't have that nifty piece of paper that said that they burned 4 years of their life and around 20k (depending on their country) on a subject. The fact that we have normalised the need for a degree in order to get a job is ridiculous. My sister is currently doing a degree in linguistics and drowning in student debts just because without a degree, most white collar jobs wouldn't even give her a second look. I'm working talent acquisitions in a large e-commerce company and resumes without a degree would be thrown away instantly even if they have 10++ years of experience in their field. However, resumes with a degree would at least warrant a look, even if its not in the respective field. How stupid is that?

yeah, they had exceptionally rich families

because it was narrow! ;p

Ye, this channel always removes the best parts

Here it is if anyone was curious. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-OqiquVrCJiU.html

"Fucking billionaires"

Peter Gregory is dead :(

Edward Alexander Hmmm good observation sir...

Quite an observation.

He knew Burger King,But was just "unfamiliar with their offerings" :)

@Long Tang but he hears good things

I believe he had a general idea of Burger King as an establishment that employs a lot of people.

Probably a big part of the other seasons' plots would be he battling against Gavin Belson, or to make each other pissed off :/ the writers probably had to rewrite the whole thing, and still the first seasons of SV are some of the greatest seasons I've ever seen from a comedy show.

Peter Gregory is like Peter Thiel Gavin is like Larry Elison?

my dad is a college professor and it's so true, it's uncanny... I'm pretty sure whenever we talk about college he will always mention the true value of college being intangible lmfao

@@OxygenBeats I mean he’s not wrong. You can’t really put a dollar value on knowledge, no matter where it comes from

@@teamtoken You are so wrong in so many ways I have to assume you never been to college or slept on all of the lectures. You can easily calculate impact on the economy of a country, region or even a town, in dollars, which is brought or taken by a college. You can absolutely trivially do that on a scale of a household. Earnings of a family with one graduate, two or none. You can easily compare the dollar value of an inept but highly praised college graduate against an illiterate but skilled and experienced craftsman as an employer. So you easily can put dollar value on knowledge(have you been to a job interview? there is a mandatory part where you together with an employer put a very exact dollar value on your knowledge) and most valuable knowledge rarely comes from college, because it is retarded by at least the time it takes to formulate the unit of knowledge into a course, approve it and train professors to teach it. That's at least 5 years of a delay. And in tech 5 years is very dead. There is very little value in a lot of 5 year old knowledge in IT.

@@teamtoken Since the entire goal of college and knowledge in our world is to make money, yes you can.

@@NGC1433 Total rubbish There’s no substitute for knowledge, no matter where it comes from. Experience is valuable, theoretical knowledge is valuable, soft skills are valuable, hard skills are valuable. Whether it’s college or not doesn’t matter. The real skill is being able to blend theory with practice. In my line of work (Engineering) there are many brilliant folks I’ve come across with no degree. However for difficult, non intuitive problems for which there are no simple solutions, the kinds of people who can do it with no advanced degree are rare as hens teeth, and there are reasons for that.

@Steven everyone who disagrees with them is a "fascist"

at least it wasn't commie.

i always liked how sassily he yelled it.....

I like how this whole thing is comedic exaggeration

I like how unrealistic it is. In all my years I have seen very few real professors behave like that and they are usually just nutjobs in general. The truth is, college is about learning baseline skills/knowledge and professors are researchers who innovate rather than apply. Now students who don't learn to apply their knowledge and skills that are built in college don't do as well but that is why all students should combine disciplines to create applicable skill sets that are useful in their industries. Some people might not need college but statistically speaking even amongst the most successful people there are more college graduates than dropouts. There is a reason engineering degree holders are the most prevalent among billionaires, engineers have a very good balance of knowledge building classes and classes that teach application skills and innovation.

Those student loans debts do sound fun 😘😘

Exactly.

Those who dropped out of college were exceptional before even going to college and had enough faith in their dreams that they took the chance. They weren’t aimlessly avoiding college.They were already working on their project and just had their priorities sorted out.

@@pointyneedle7837 Many also had connections and funding too.

A lot of programmers and white-collar workers could've learned those skills without going to college, that's the point.

Same with me. Grew up very poor in a rural town. When I count those of us who graduated high school, half the males who graduated are now either dead or in prison. Those of us still alive got jobs in the mines, for the mill or went to University. I got a Computer Science and a Math degree and now make what my single mother makes in 10 years as a salary, before bonuses or equity. Sure, I'm never going to be Bill Gates rich, but feasibly I'll retire with more wealth than I need, and it's only because University exists.

What did you do with your EE degree to propel you to upper middle class over night?

@@aerohk obviously he got a job in electrical engineering

It was fun as a Freshman, but now I have to leave my Internship and finish a semester of classes, just to learn things that I don’t need for my job.

They would have, but Hooli reverse-engineered their algorithm so it literally became a war to use it in the most practical way. If Richard never gave his credentials to those Hooli engineers, the plot would have been way different.

Its actually 5-6 years in the series

@@SarathKumar-vj5wu I think he meant from season 1

he knew it existed, he just want familiar with the menu because he never eats there. I'm sure he also doesn't forage for berries too.

lol... apparently yes! :o

@@lolvalley979 Nice catch!

@Shell 1500 @lol Valley no its a different guy. that's not him haha

He knew it, indeed, just wasn't in a restaurant. He's an investor after all.

@@yourmeister yup exactly. He knows it from an investor's POV. Not as an actual customer who eats there.

How so?

agree

Life is cruel, specially to everyone.

@@Kosaro1234 from what I know, implementation of real world applications isn't prioritized to the extent it should be, which is the most effective way of preparing for a career in software engineering. CS at the college level focuses more on theory allegedly.

@@grants5554 In my experience its been a balance of the two. I have learned way more theory than I would have if I studied on my own, but I also had hands on practice in a lot of different fields (app development, website, databases, assembly code, machine learning, etc). I'm sure I'll need to do plenty of on-the-job learning, but the theory and experience with the foundations should make the learning curve quite smooth.

tres commas

Peter Thiel is

I mean if you have 2 years+ left you are already getting 100k for dropping out, in the US which is nuts to think about.

Not true at all lol. Job market in US is a joke. So many college graduates working starvation wage paying jobs

@@francargeric1 lmao u can't get a 50k a year job fresh out of high shcool

the guy in front of them

So ... Peter Thiel is Dead?

Berkely is a music school on the east coast. Berkeley is the University of California campus just north of Oakland. I’m guessing that I’m one of the a holes that graduated from the latter.

@@OhNoNotAgain42 You proved him correct.

And Peter Thiel is a fascist.

Rest 10 ???

Change to the world with the help of countless of work produced directly or ad-hoc from academia perhaps. No man is an island.

maybe if Zuckerberg had finished college his stupid website wouldn't be catastrophic determent to society.

Exactly, he got into Hooli(before leaving Pied Piper and being promoted to win the suit) and was a pretty good programmer. Just because he wasn't the best in the group at any given task they started to picture him like an absolute idiot. Gilfoyle was a genius with hardware and machine learning, Dinesh a great programmer and Richard also a genius programmer.

It’s not unusual for tech companies in the valley to hire non-grads who have a portfolio of work and can pass the entrance rounds

exam-style interviews make credentials much less relevant

Why wouldn’t he hate college?

He's not an arts and crafts kind of guy. ;)

actor died before the show even came on tv

fascist! :p

People like Peter usually want others to go and study in colleges, they will even pay you to complete higher degrees, this will insure them a lot of future employees, the worst thing can happen to them if everyone decided to be an entrepreneur and drop out of college

Mohammad Khaled they want their employees to go study at college, not some rando. Then his employees are educated and have an advantage in business dealings with dropouts

They always want new employees, all big companies never stop hiring because of the new positions and the people leaving to other companies, so the more graduated students the better for them

Mohammad Khaled If Peter has the best company, his employees won't leave. Part of that involves seeding all the other companies with uneducated dropouts.

He isn't incompetent. He's good at coding. He's just not very bright. it doesn't take a rocket scientist to write code.

@@alphanerd7221 Later it is shown and said that he isn't good at coding either, although he created nip alert.

@@SpiceAndSauce He isn't as good as all the geniuses at Pied Piper but he's competent.