Outside the Box
SVB has always been vulnerable to tech-industry startup booms and busts
A customer reads a notice about Silicon Valley Bank’s closure at the bank’s headquarters in Santa Clara, Calif.
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Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) SIVB has long been an integral part of the Silicon Valley startup scene, lending money to venture-capital-backed companies and holding their operating cash as bank deposits. SVB has always been vulnerable to startup booms and busts — nearly drowning during the popping of the dot-com bubble and during the Great Recession of 2007-2009 but it did survive.
Not this time.
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