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
6 - Against All Odds
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
The unconventional approaches Silicon Valley Bank adopted in the early years challenged banking culture. SVB transformed into one of the largest fifteen banks in the United States by serving exclusively tech companies in innovation centers across the nation.1 SVB was the startup, cheerleader, and connector to and for its clients in the tech sector.
Keywords
SVB as the startupcheerleaderconnectorprofitsunconventional approachhigh technologycommercialreal estateVC fundingdepositsclientsInc. magazineSilicon Valley Folliesstartup bankfirst yearHarry W. KelloggTechnology divisionBNPgrow with the clientsreceivableswarrants for growthbridge lendingtech sectorextension of the runwayVC relationships
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- Silicon Valley BankThe Rise and Fall of a Community Bank for Tech, pp. 118 - 146Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024