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SVB draws support from 300+ VC firms, including General Catalyst, while 1,200+ founders and CEOs sign a Y Combinator petition asking the US Congress to act — More than 100 venture capital and investing firms have signed a statement supporting Silicon Valley Bank, part of mounting industry calls …
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Sources: the FDIC is racing to sell SVB's assets and make 30% to 50% or more of clients' uninsured deposits available as soon as Monday — US regulators overseeing the emergency breakup of SVB Financial Group are racing to sell assets and make a portion of clients' uninsured deposits available …
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| Om Malik / On my Om: |
More than a bailout, SVB needs a white knight, someone who can come in and take over the bank that has been at the heart of the US innovation economy — After three decades of being part of the Silicon Valley ecosystem — as a reporter, writer, entrepreneur, and investor — I thought I had seen it all.
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Sources: some hedge funds are offering to buy startups' deposits at SVB for 60 to 80 cents on the dollar; filing: ~96% of deposits as of Dec. 31 were uninsured — Hedge funds are offering to buy startups' deposits stranded at Silicon Valley Bank for as little as 60 cents on the dollar …
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| Rob Wile / NBC News: |
In an email to sellers, Etsy warns that the SVB collapse is causing delays in processing payments; one seller says it would be “catastrophic” for his business — Etsy is warning sellers that the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank on Friday is causing delays in processing payments … | CBS News: |
US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on the SVB failure: we are trying to meet the needs of depositors, but are not looking to bail out owners of large banks — The following is a transcript of an interview with Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen that aired on “Face the Nation” on Sunday, March 12, 2023.
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Sources: Tim Cook is pressing ahead with the MR headset debut this year, overruling designers' objections, and Apple expects to sell ~1M units in the first year — New launch will be first steered entirely by CEO and under direction of operations team — When Tim Cook unveils Apple's new …
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Circle says $3.3B of its ~$40B USDC reserves remain at Silicon Valley Bank and that the crypto payments firm will follow state and federal regulators' guidance — - After being largely silent on Friday, Circle said it has $3.3 billion in exposure to Silicon Valley Bank …
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| Ben Cohen / Wall Street Journal: |
A look at Bring a Trailer, a classic car blog from 2007 that became a marketplace, facilitated $1.37B in 2022 sales, and held its 100,000th auction on March 7 — Bring a Trailer is where obsessives buy, sell and geek out over classic cars. The company pops open its hood after 100,000 auctions to explain why.| Financial Times: |
Sources: the UK is seeking a buyer for the British arm of SVB, which had ~£7B in deposits on Friday, with an UAE-based company as the “lead white knight” — ‘Lead white knight’ eyeing British arm of tech lender that had billions in deposits
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Financial Times and eFinancialCareers …
| John Sakellariadis / Politico: |
Worried that cloud giants offer concentrated targets, the US plans to regulate the security practices of cloud providers like Amazon, Microsoft, and Google — Governments and businesses have spent two decades rushing to the cloud — trusting some of their most sensitive data to tech giants …
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| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
An interview with Gowalla co-founder and CEO Josh Williams as he re-launches his location-based social networking app at SXSW, 14 years after its debut — One of the original location-based social apps is relaunching at SXSW - 14 years after its debut — Gowalla co-founder and CEO Josh Williams …
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