I don't know what your views on all this is.

The problem is many of your peers in your space actively advocate, lobby, and spend lots of $$$ to reduce regulations whose aim is to try to prevent this sort of stuff. SVB themselves were pushing to be exempt from stress tests in Dodd-Frank, which they were successful at achieving back in 2018. If regulation is really a concern, why continue banking at a company that was actively lobbying to be exempt from regulations that already existed?

Anyways, I'm not gonna pass judgement either way. People make mistakes. However, it's a constant battle, and when ground is gained its easily lost. It's a tireless fight against monied interests trying to make more money in any way possible. People are going to understandably be frustrated at petitions like this.

Then you should also have no problem pledging 33% of all gains on top of regular taxation to the Federal Government as payment for the bailout

Those single moms living paycheck to paycheck, who you want to fund your bailout, would become part owners of YC

Perhaps not you personally, but certainly the organisation you're representing has had that perspective

he's making a joke that I think is pretty clear, and jokes are only funny when they're stripped to their essentials.

if anybody holds the perspective that the govt should use public funds to save a set of companies because ma jobs, ma innovations, etc. in the venture capital sector it would seem that person does hold that perspective, at least enough to joke about it.

Unless you're making a more unlikely point that the government should be intervening all the time?

Paul has absolutely been a small government advocate.

Most commenters have a very low-dimensional understanding of politics, and assume if you’re a businessman or capitalist, all failings of Republicans can be attributed to you personally.