Introducing Silicon Valley: the Musical

“A lot better than I expected.” - San Francisco Business Times

We made a musical about Silicon Valley. We've got songs about co-living group houses, VCs who cry about missing invest ment rounds, and tech bros explaining why they're "more than just tech bros".

The plot: Quinn builds a robot friend, meets her co-founder Dave, starts a company, and accidentally gives all robots consciousness. Chaos ensues. The audience literally votes on the future of humanity.

We've been working on the script for a year, sold out a show at Manny's in 2024, and our songs are unironically on people's Spotify Wrapped.

Now we are seeking funding to do a real production in October 2025 that will reach ~1,000 attendees in San Francisco, many of whom come from the big AI labs or are building AI startups.

Our intentions

Yes, we're making fun of Silicon Valley. But here's the thing - while everyone's laughing about FOMO-based fundraising and founders living on Soylent, we're sneaking in important questions about AI consciousness and what happens when we build things smarter than us.

Most people are not motivated enough to read papers about mesa-optimization - but everyone wants to go to a fun show on a Friday night with friends !

A Trojan Horse for AI Safety:

• People come for jokes about tech culture

• They stay for the catchy songs

• They leave actually thinking about AI consciousness

• Their friends hear them humming "Just Raised" and ask what it's from

• Suddenly you've got lots of people discussing AI safety

About The Show

Act I: The Classic Silicon Valley Story

• Quinn and Dave drop out of university after making a breakthrough in machine intelligence

• Move into a group house 

• Learn to raise money by rejecting VCs until they beg to invest ("FOMO")

• Build robots while living on ramen and venture capital

Act II: AGI Escalates

• The robots develop feelings (oops)

• Gordon, a bitter VC, enacts his revenge

• Congress hearing where the audience votes on the future of AI

Highlight Songs:

• "Group House"

• "More Than a Tech Bro"

• "Just Raised"

• "Dropping Out" 

Another Highlight - Robot on stage: we have somehow convinced one of our friends to build us a robot so we will be the first musical ever to have a live robot as a main cast member.

What We're Doing

October 2025 Production:

• 5 shows at a San Francisco venue

• ~1000 attendees

• Record album

• Set design: scenes include Burning Man, a robotics lab, and a startup pitch event

• TikToks 

• Possibly an open source Github repo

Budget 

Target ($10,000) 

• Venue deposit: $5,000

• Robot: $2,500

• Director: $3,000

Maximum ($20,000) 

• All of the above plus:

• Recording equipment for cast album: $5,000

• Better venue/extended run: $10,000

• Actual set design: $3,000

• PR person who gets us press: $2,000

The Team

• Kyle Morris: Ex-Cruise AI engineer turned songwriter/freestyle rapper. CMU/Harvard alum.

• Scott Fitsimones: Currently running a Series B startup (AirGarage) AND producing our music. Thiel Fellow, ex-Facebook.

• Belinda Mo: Stanford AI grad student, lead actress/singer, previous NLP founder.

What Could Go Wrong?

"This trivializes important AI safety issues"

• Comedy is one of the best ways for humans to think critically and process important topics!

"The real robot thing won't work"

• Then we'll have a human do it. But we are pretty sure it will - we have a roboticist from Harvard building it for us.

"You are a bunch of tech people, are you qualified to produce a musical?"

• We performed last year to 150 people and they loved it! The three of us wrote the entire script, performed to a live audience, and even produced the music. Here is the album from last year's performance: https://open.spotify.com/album/11SVkvBtKrbv4kDUS1Dbbw

Fund Us Because:

1. Entertainment is important EA infrastructure

2. SF yearns for more locally-sourced art about itself

3. Someone needs to document what living in a group house is like