Name: The Uptick
Released: 2017-04-25
Cast: Thomas Middleditch, T.J. Miller, Josh Brener, Matt Ross

1) uptick

what spurred the sudden uptick, and well, I noticed something.
2) satanist

She knows 400 Satanists in Boston?
3) whiff

Even a whiff of fraud is a mortal sin for VCs.
4) inflection

We're thrilled to be getting into Pied Piper right at this inflection point.
5) perpetuity

any financial dealings with his son in perpetuity, ever,
6) kahuna

And because of that, the big kahuna bites.
7) muss

No muss, no fuss.
8) ruse

-...we're sort of done with the ruse. - Okay.
9) slingshot

to a multiplying effect like a slingshot, and then I make a decision.
10) banter

All they know is that I'm over there exchanging witty banter with McNamee,
11) bridesmaid

I was a bridesmaid at Sean Parker's wedding
12) receptionist

Oh, for fuck's sake. Do I have to pull the receptionist in here?
13) bathtub

And then I remembered our conversation in the bathtub,
14) dealings

any financial dealings with his son in perpetuity, ever,
15) liquidation

and Raviga gets all of it because of their liquidation preference
16) diligence

I mean, especially during due diligence,
17) kettle

I can put a kettle on the hot plate.
18) loser

and the loser went home, all that was left was this.

1) randomize

Why, yes, the zombie script that randomize user action
2) instill

If we're not gonna adhere to the values that Peter Gregory instill,
3) scramble

- Hoover, scramble that Skycrane. - Yes, sir.
4) whisper

Why are you whisper?
5) spur

what spur the sudden uptick, and well, I noticed something.
6) swear

I mean, I swear to God,
7) settle

And then, it settle in.
8) hack

Actually, it's ours. The guys hack it together.
9) pray

And what, pray tell, might that be?
10) parade

before you parade me around the whole fucking Valley
11) belong

-then I don't think I belong here. - Monica, you don't have to do this.
12) approve

I vote yes. There. Okay? I approve the sale.
13) shut

All you had to do was keep your fucking mouth shut
14) suppose

Oh, I suppose.
15) spin

All right, I spun together a few more servers. That should handle the traffic.
16) appreciate

Well, I really appreciate it.
17) realize

Then I realize why.
18) demonstrate

Your Maleant dealings demonstrate that you're still pursuing middle-out.

1) deftly

I deftly played Ross Lorna against Index Ventures.
2) organically

- We got up to 4K users totally organically. - Oh.
3) famously

where Steve Jobs famously sought peace and came up with the idea
4) afterwards

We would have fixed it afterwards.
5) literally

That will have to be for literally nothing because we're out of money. (SIGHS)
6) meanwhile

Meanwhile, I'm taking a leak at a Restoration Hardware.
7) essentially

and essentially meaningless,
8) definitely

Just want to let you know that we would definitely work
9) forever

that I will forever be remembered for
10) absolutely

absolutely indistinguishable from real users?
11) exactly

I mean, our platform does exactly what we say it does.
12) approximately

I received a telephone call approximately 30 minutes ago
13) finally

I think I finally respect you as a CEO.
14) instead

RICHARD: You may want to fund that instead.
15) especially

I mean, especially during due diligence,
16) recently

He'd recently been rescued from the circus,
17) almost

Almost all of our new users were just uploading a single photo
18) outside

I go outside, I walk across the street to Greylock,

1) unpermitted

It's about the death of an unpermitted Indian elephant named Maurice,
2) satanist

Yeah, I told her to give it to her Satanist friends out there.
3) indistinguishable

absolutely indistinguishable from real users?
4) overt

And if you mention my Montblanc, then don't make it overt, like I told you to.
5) advantageous

that leaves us in a very advantageous position.
6) thriving

You said it yourself, our compression play is thriving.
7) meaningless

and essentially meaningless,
8) ironic

That's ironic, huh?
9) thrilled

We're thrilled to be getting into Pied Piper right at this inflection point.
10) fraudulent

and, you know, between the fraudulent numbers
11) mortal

Even a whiff of fraud is a mortal sin for VCs.
12) unreal

- Oh, it's unreal. - Yeah.
13) depressed

He was very old and depressed.
14) plush

when he handed out live bunnies as plush toys.
15) endangered

You're using endangered animals just to make points at board meetings.
16) sudden

what spurred the sudden uptick, and well, I noticed something.
17) delicious

which I hear is delicious but not too heavy,
18) inappropriate

so it would be inappropriate to laugh at my hysterical joke.

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