In the middle of Richard’s expected freak-out, Tara shuts him up with her review: Despite a few interface bugs, the system kicks ass.Īlso kicking ass? The million-dollar debt that’s hanging over Erlich’s head, courtesy of Bachmanity Insanity, the failed Polynesian party on Alcatraz that a now-bankrupt Big Head couldn’t finance. Tara, Gilfoyle’s partner in hedonistic love, who was last seen distracting Dinesh and worshipping Satan, has been testing Pied Piper all day. Unbeknownst to him, however, the beta process has already started.
“If you’re not mortally embarrassed by your initial release,” he says, “You released too late.” Richard remains unmoved. When Richard fears a flaky Pied Piper 1.0 would embarrass him, Jared counters with something that sounds like Microsoft’s mission statement. Think of it like test screening of a movie, except unlike test audiences, beta release users rarely do anything to make the product worse. That is what a beta is for!” Flagging a release as “beta” gives users a specific expectation in the tech world.
Dinesh explains the beta concept: “You give it to people in the real world, they use it, and that is how we find the bugs. The platform is stable enough to handle it, despite still being somewhat buggy. To soothe Richard’s anxiety, Dinesh suggests a beta release. So, why is he reluctant to show Pied Piper to the public now? It’s always been Richard’s desire to bring his platform to the tech community, an intent that formed the crux of his dispute with Action Jack Barker. But no one outside of Richard’s team has taken it for a test drive. They have borne witness to it at TechCrunch Disrupt and via the streaming of that poor guy trapped beneath a condor nest. With the day-to-day craziness at Pied Piper, it’s easy to forget that the general public has yet to use the product. Martin Starr as Gilfoyle, Thomas Middleditch as Richard.
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