Silicon Valley Bank: The Rise and Fall of a Community Bank for Tech

by Xuan-Thao Nguyen

Book Overview

This book provides a first-hand account of the founding, ascent, and dissolution of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), a tech community bank founded in 1982 with US$5 million that became the nation's 13th largest bank and tech industry's lender and bank. In this pathbreaking work, which challenges conventional understanding of risky tech lending by showing how an independent community bank became the go-to bank for the tech industry in the United States,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1009416162
• ISBN13: 9781009416160
• Release Date: February 2024
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"