Silicon Valley Bank: The Rise and Fall of a Community Bank for Tech - Paperbackby Xuan Thao Nguyen (Author) 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