Richard Hendricks — Silicon Valley Character Profile

About Richard Hendricks

Founder and original CEO of Pied Piper, known for his revolutionary data compression algorithm. He navigates numerous corporate battles, funding crises, and technical pivots while striving to build a decentralized, privacy-focused internet.

Richard Hendricks — Character Profile

Character Facts

Played by

Thomas Middleditch

Appears in

Silicon Valley (2014)

Role

Protagonist

Relationships (8)

• Richard Hendricks — Professional Investor — Russ Hanneman (Chris Diamantopoulos)

  Russ provides major investment to Pied Piper

• Richard Hendricks — Professional Business Partner — Laurie Bream (Suzanne Cryer)

  Founder-investor relationship through venture capital

• Richard Hendricks — Professional Employer — Bertram Gilfoyle (Martin Starr)

  Richard employs Gilfoyle as systems architect at Pied Piper

• Richard Hendricks — Professional Employer — Dinesh Chugtai (Kumail Nanjiani)

  Richard employs Dinesh as a programmer at Pied Piper

• Richard Hendricks — Social Friend — Nelson 'Big Head' Bighetti (Josh Brener)

  Close friends and roommates throughout the series

• Richard Hendricks — Romantic Lover — Monica Hall (Amanda Crew)

  Complicated romantic relationship develops between them

• Richard Hendricks — Conflict Arch Enemy — Gavin Belson (Matt Ross)

  Main protagonist vs antagonist throughout the series

• Richard Hendricks — Professional Ceo — Donald 'Jared' Dunn (Zach Woods)

  Richard is CEO, Jared is COO of Pied Piper

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