The One Stock Silicon Valley's Intro Missed

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 ❤️ More about us Radically better observability stack: https://betterstack.com/ Written tutorials: https://betterstack.com/community/ Example projects: https://github.com/BetterStackHQ 📱 Socials Twitter: https://twitter.com/betterstackhq Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/betterstackhq/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@betterstack LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/betterstack 📌 Chapters: 0:00 - Intro 0:14 - Silicon Valley's Intro 0:25 - Tagging Every Logo 0:55 - Fund 1: Thought Experiment 1:28 - Coinbase and the Peak 2:40 - Fund 2: Brokerage Account 3:53 - The Equal Weight Problem 4:14 - Fund 3: Credits ETF 5:23 - Four Other Versions 5:47 - A $21 Trillion Town