Book contents
- Silicon Valley Bank
- Silicon Valley Bank
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- 1 The Bank for the Innovation Economy
- 2 The Origin of the Idea
- 3 Bank Atrophy and Outliers
- 4 The Stanford Professor and Two Bankers
- 5 Be Different from the Beginning
- 6 Against All Odds
- 7 Convincing the Banking Regulators
- 8 SVB Tech Lending and the Birth of Venture Debts
- 9 Leveraging the VC Relationships for Expansion
- 10 Into the Premature Future and Banks’ Almost Embrace of ESG
- 11 SVB’s Sudden Death and Lessons Learned from Banking Innovators
11 - SVB’s Sudden Death and Lessons Learned from Banking Innovators
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 February 2024
Book contents
- Silicon Valley Bank
- Silicon Valley Bank
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- 1 The Bank for the Innovation Economy
- 2 The Origin of the Idea
- 3 Bank Atrophy and Outliers
- 4 The Stanford Professor and Two Bankers
- 5 Be Different from the Beginning
- 6 Against All Odds
- 7 Convincing the Banking Regulators
- 8 SVB Tech Lending and the Birth of Venture Debts
- 9 Leveraging the VC Relationships for Expansion
- 10 Into the Premature Future and Banks’ Almost Embrace of ESG
- 11 SVB’s Sudden Death and Lessons Learned from Banking Innovators
Summary
Bob Medearis, Roger Smith, and Bill Biggerstaff founded Silicon Valley Bank in 1983. Smith ran the Bank as a startup business in the first decade. Subsequent CEO John Dean restructured the Bank and Ken Wilcox redirected the Bank with a central focus on exclusively serving the tech community. Greg Becker accelerated the Bank, connecting its past to the future. The bank’s assets grew at a fast pace during the pandemic. Becker tripled the size of the bank between 2019 and 2022.
Keywords
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- Silicon Valley BankThe Rise and Fall of a Community Bank for Tech, pp. 243 - 282Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024