Since Bravo announced the show in April, it has been greeted with horrified tweets and Facebook updates by geeks who feared the show would portray the Valley about as faithfully as “Jersey Shore” rendered the people of New Jersey. That is a little surprising, coming from an Internet personality (and self-described angel investor) whose first burst of notoriety came from uploading videos of herself crashing tech parties in 2006.īut her apprehension speaks to the scorn that has piled up like rush-hour traffic on Highway 101 for the eight-episode series. “I think sometimes that it wasn’t worth it.” “I’ve had a lot of figures in Silicon Valley tell me that it was a mistake,” Austin said.

“It’s been a nightmare,” confessed Sarah Austin, one of the series’ six pretty twentysomethings who code, party and hustle their way to fame and riches - or at least try to - in San Francisco’s bubbly tech fishbowl. Even for the entrepreneurs-cum-co-stars of Bravo TV’s “Start-ups: Silicon Valley,” it is getting hard to put on a brave face. SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - They have been panned by television critics and disavowed by their own industry.