Pied Piper, the fictional startup headed by a tech genius who created a revolutionary algorithm from Silicon Valley, doesn't exist in real life. ... It's nowhere near Silicon Valley – the startup is based in Beijing – but fans of the show will find a lot familiar about the Chinese compression startup.

Is Pied Piper internet real?

Norton is recognized internationally for his work on Internet peering. ... “Syntropy challenges the way the Internet has worked in the past and uses blockchain to bring together a lot of different elements to create an intelligent overlay on top of existing infrastructure.

What is pied piper technology?

The Pied Piper algorithm from the show Silicon Valley is a video compression software program written in C that achieves a Weissman score in the fives. This type of video compression technology is said to be able to actually shrink the internet by as much as 10 percent with widespread adoption.