“A guy walks into a bar...” is a typical form of what has been called the “bar joke.” A Silicon Valley version is:

“A million guys/people walk into a Silicon Valley bar. No one buys anything. Bar declared a massive success.”

“A million guys walk into a Silicon Valley bar. None of them buy anything. The bar is declared a rousing success” was posted on Twitter on October 12, 2011. “A million guys walk into a Silicon Valley bar. No one buys anything. Bar declared massive success” was posted by Paul Stamatiou on Twitter on May 2, 2014. Stamatiou usually gets credit for the joke, even though it is almost identical to the version cited almost three years earlier.

The joke has been printed on several images.


Twitter
Daniel Lo Nigro
‏@Daniel15
LOL “A million guys walk into a Silicon Valley bar. None of them buy anything. The bar is declared a rousing success” http://ping.fm/9etJa
7:26 PM - 12 Oct 2011

Twitter
Cindy Gallop
‏@cindygallop
RT @jstanwix Wanna hear a joke?  A million guys walk into a Silicon Valley bar. None of them buy anything. Bar declared a rousing success.
3:03 PM - 13 Oct 2011

Twitter
J. Cliff Elam
‏@cliffelam
A million guys walk into a Silicon Valley bar and nobody buys a beer.  The bar is declared a huge success.
7:51 PM - 14 Oct 2011

Twitter
Greg Rewis
‏@garazi
Million guys walk into a Silicon Valley bar. Nobody buys a drink. The bar is declared a success. A week l8r no one remembers the bar’s name.
2:15 PM - 31 Oct 2011

Twitter
Paul Stamatiou 📷
‏@Stammy
A million guys walk into a Silicon Valley bar. No one buys anything.
Bar declared massive success.
2:08 AM - 2 May 2014

Oracle Technology Network’s Blog
Best of OTN - Week of May 18th
By Tori Wieldt-Oracle on May 23, 2014
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Friday Funny: A million guys walk into a Silicon Valley bar.
No one buys anything.
Bar declared massive success.

Thanks @Stammy !

reddit
A million people walk into a Silicon Valley bar. (self.ProgrammerHumor)
submitted April 7, 2015 by itisike
Nobody buys a drink. The bar is declared a success.

Bear Is Cool
3.10.15 (October 3, 2015)
A million guys walk into a Silicon Valley bar…
No one buys anything…
Bar declared a HUGE success.