<story><title>Bank run on Silicon Valley Bank</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/09/silicon-valley-banks-shares-are-tanking-as-a-mess-unfolds/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>boringg</author><text>Poor move by the CEO.  It&amp;#x27;s like he wanted to be honest with everyone but that wasn&amp;#x27;t a strong signal.&lt;p&gt;Also out most of the banks - you would expect that the clients of SVB are a little more sophisticated than your retail bank demographic being start-up companies and all (big assumption).</text></item><item><author>rippercushions</author><text>From &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;techcrunch.com&amp;#x2F;2023&amp;#x2F;03&amp;#x2F;09&amp;#x2F;silicon-valley-banks-shares-are-tanking-as-a-mess-unfolds&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;techcrunch.com&amp;#x2F;2023&amp;#x2F;03&amp;#x2F;09&amp;#x2F;silicon-valley-banks-share...&lt;/a&gt; :&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Becker said the bank has “ample liquidity” to support its clients “with one exception: If everybody is telling each other that SVB is in trouble, that will be a challenge.”&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Pro tip: if you&amp;#x27;re CEO of a bank that&amp;#x27;s facing a bank run, don&amp;#x27;t tell the press that you&amp;#x27;ll be in trouble if everybody takes their money out.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fullsend</author><text>In the immortal words of Andrew Lahde who closed his hedge fund up 800% in 2008, “I was in this game for the money. The low hanging fruit, i.e. idiots whose parents paid for prep school, Yale, and then the Harvard MBA, was there for the taking. These people who were (often) truly not worthy of the education they received (or supposedly received) rose to the top of companies such as AIG, Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers and all levels of our government. All of this behavior supporting the Aristocracy only ended up making it easier for me to find people stupid enough to take the other side of my trades. God bless America.”&lt;p&gt;Assuming these people have any level of sophistication is what gets us into these messes. It’s good to remember they are betting billions of dollars based on nothing but fomo and don’t know anything special at all.</text></comment>
<story><title>Bank run on Silicon Valley Bank</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/09/silicon-valley-banks-shares-are-tanking-as-a-mess-unfolds/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>boringg</author><text>Poor move by the CEO.  It&amp;#x27;s like he wanted to be honest with everyone but that wasn&amp;#x27;t a strong signal.&lt;p&gt;Also out most of the banks - you would expect that the clients of SVB are a little more sophisticated than your retail bank demographic being start-up companies and all (big assumption).</text></item><item><author>rippercushions</author><text>From &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;techcrunch.com&amp;#x2F;2023&amp;#x2F;03&amp;#x2F;09&amp;#x2F;silicon-valley-banks-shares-are-tanking-as-a-mess-unfolds&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;techcrunch.com&amp;#x2F;2023&amp;#x2F;03&amp;#x2F;09&amp;#x2F;silicon-valley-banks-share...&lt;/a&gt; :&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Becker said the bank has “ample liquidity” to support its clients “with one exception: If everybody is telling each other that SVB is in trouble, that will be a challenge.”&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Pro tip: if you&amp;#x27;re CEO of a bank that&amp;#x27;s facing a bank run, don&amp;#x27;t tell the press that you&amp;#x27;ll be in trouble if everybody takes their money out.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tyre</author><text>They’re a public company with known exposure to startups. If he lies, that’s securities fraud and he could go to prison.&lt;p&gt;Is that worth it?</text></comment>