Is satire causing soul-searching at tech companies? Those familiar with HBO’s comedy show Silicon Valley already know it’s centered around a tech startup called Pied Piper that accidentally invents a revolutionary compression algorithm. In the three-season run, Pied Piper goes through incubation and seeding before going on to raise successive rounds of venture capital. The show satirizes many of the industry’s stereotypical excesses, including scooters, free food, spiritual gurus, and other ridiculous lavish office perks, as well as meaningless platitudes including “making the world a better place,” writes Erin Griffith for Fortune.

The show has surprisingly been “embraced by those it so brilliantly skewers,” writes Sarah Hughes for The Guardian. This includes Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook, and Sergey Brin and Larry Page of Google. More importantly, the show addresses the importance of execution over a revolutionary idea, and the distinction between DIY idealism against big-business budgets. “If you’re in Wall Street you’re kind of unashamed about how much money you’re making,” he says. “But in the tech world, it’s not enough to be making money — you’ve also got to be saving the world and that’s kind of funny,” says executive producer Mike Judge.