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I think he's speaking of the _state sponsored_ cyber security, offensive tooling and exploit creation _start ups_.

> Israel has earned its reputation as ‘the start-up’ nation, accommodating 97 unicorns each valued over $1bn, according to global Israeli startup founders club Techaviv.

https://www.checkpoint.com/press-releases/check-point-softwa...

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scylladb is one of the most technologically sophisticated companies in the world and their team has more expertise with the linux kernel and distributed systems than anyone even 100X their size in california. to claim that expertise in one technical field doesnt translate to others is just ignorant.

Do you consider scylladb a startup or an organization that would need the products of svb?

Don’t they need a checking/savings account for payroll?

Many need SVB, we (ScyllaDB) received a great service from them in the past. Later on we just used them as one of our banks, obviously, going forward, we're diversifying our services.

The problem for startups is that debt provider who are also a bank require to move most of the business to that provider. It's not the case other types of debt providers. w.r.t debt - everybody use this mechanism, doesn't matter if you're small or big.

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