As revenge, Chen has Monica put in charge of the investment. Monica tricks Raviga's new rising star, Ed Chen, into making a sight-unseen offer for the app, but Chen quickly finds out that there is no product after speaking to Jian-Yang. During Jian-Yang's pitch, Erlich convinces venture capitalists that Jian-Yang's app is actually a " Shazam for food". He is replaced by Jack Barker, who has found a way to avoid the COPPA fines. Gavin Belson is fired following the disastrous acquisition of PiperChat. Meanwhile, Erlich learns that Jian-Yang has investment meetings and makes a deal with him for 10% of his company later, he finds out the app is not about Oculus VR but about recipes to cook octopus. Dinesh does so, having decided to shut it down. He accuses Dinesh of stealing Hooli Chat's tech and threatens lawsuits, demanding he sign over the company – without a legal assessment. Since Barker uses PiperChat, with unbreakable encryption, Belson determines to acquire the company. Meanwhile, Barker embraces his demotion to the data center underground, but Belson is suspicious and spies on his video chat sessions. This violates the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) and can incur a total penalty of $21 billion. After Big Head gives him login access, Richard learns that a third of PiperChat's users are children, and the app's terms of service never included parental permission.
Richard finds that Dinesh has blocked him from PiperChat's data repository, violating a verbal agreement. PiperChat gathers attention from investors and a steady stream of daily active users (DAUs), while Richard keeps working on his "new internet" project. Belson becomes irked that Jack diverts the plane for his own convenience while lying about it, and "promotes" Jack by assigning him a position at a desk in Hooli's data center, deep underground. Meanwhile, Gavin Belson and Jack Barker are returning from China after closing a deal to manufacture Hooli Endframe's box. He suggests Dinesh become the CEO of PiperChat, which was his creation. Just as the team prepares to replace him with Big Head, he quits his position and signs over his equity in exchange for use of his algorithm and the Pied Piper brand in the pursuit of a more ambitious goal: a decentralized internet based on users and smartphones instead of large companies and mainframes. After clashing with Dinesh and Gilfoyle over the development of the app and attempting to gain investment from Hanneman, Richard realizes that he can't be the CEO of a project he doesn't believe in. However, the team is unable to gain funding due to the scandal of their click farm upticks and demise of the compression platform. Pied Piper officially pivots to PiperChat, a video chat app created by Dinesh, which is steadily gaining users and is superior to all competitors.
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