Nelson Big Head Bighetti [new]

He is the heart of the show’s comedy: a genuinely nice, happy, lazy guy who becomes a millionaire and a Stanford professor simply by

: He began as a low-level software developer at Hooli and lived in Erlich Bachman’s "Hacker Hostel" incubator alongside protagonist Richard Hendricks. nelson big head bighetti

After being removed from active projects due to ineptitude, Big Head joins a group of "unassigned" employees who spend their days on a Hooli rooftop doing nothing. He is the heart of the show’s comedy:

: He is characterized as leisurely, passive, and intellectually mediocre. While originally presented with some self-awareness and sarcasm, his character evolved into a "childishly innocent moron" as the series progressed. He has virtually no technical, business, or social

: Raised in Arizona, Bighetti attended Arizona State University for five years before dropping out.

Big Head is the ultimate accidental success story. He has virtually no technical, business, or social skills, yet he repeatedly fails upward into wealth and high-level positions due to corporate politics, misunderstandings, and the sheer incompetence of those around him.

His "career" takes an absurd turn when Hooli CEO Gavin Belson promotes him to "co-head dreamer" of the Hooli XYZ moonshot division, primarily to use him as a legal pawn against Richard. This promotion sets off a chain of increasingly ridiculous events: