and they're also bad because one VC looked into the bank's finances, noticed a real problem, told people about it, and those people did the rational thing and pulled their money out.
and they're also bad because one VC looked into the bank's finances, noticed a real problem, told people about it, and those people did the rational thing and pulled their money out.
This is not a new risk for businesses in any industry and financial services exist to help manage that risk for companies with cash on hand.
I would instead ask why the SVB customers didn’t manage this risk. Others on HN said that banking with SVB was a requirement placed by many VC companies, which does tie the customer’s hands.
Let's say you're a company with like 50 well-paid devs, they make 200 grand each on average, so monthly payroll for them is 50 x 200,000 / 12 = ~830,000, so you'd need accounts with four different banks to stay under the FDIC limit just to manage payroll for engineering. What about everything else?