The Silicon Valley Intro Turned $10,000 Into $114,000
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Oct 26, 2026 03:45
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Every real company in the Silicon Valley intro, run as an index fund: $1,000 in each of the 41 companies in HBO's opening credits, tracked from 2014 to today. We tag all 65 logos across eight versions of the intro, then build the fund seven ways, from a pure thought experiment to a brokerage account and a market-cap weighted ETF, and compare each one against the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq-100. Along the way: Coinbase's 26% day, Reddit at $6.26 a share, Theranos going to zero, and the Nvidia logo that never made the credits.
🔗 Relevant Links
My Data: https://github.com/jolbol1/silicon-valley-intro-index
HBO's original Season 1 opening sequence (2014): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNp1ullIXP4
yU+co, the studio behind the intro: https://www.yuco.com/works/silicon-valley
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📌 Chapters:
Science & Technology
#silicon valley intro
#silicon valley opening credits
#silicon valley hbo
#index fund
#backtest
#stock market
#investing
#etf
#s&p 500
#nasdaq 100
#market cap weighted
#equal weight portfolio
#coinbase ipo
#reddit ipo
#theranos
#nvidia stock
#apple stock
#tesla stock
#tech stocks
#venture capital
#startup valuations
#what if you invested
#beat the market
#silicon valley easter eggs
#mike judge
#yu+co
#title sequence
#data visualization
#tech history
#tv intro
#portfolio