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At 9:15 AM, he logged off.

Six months earlier, SVB was the cool kid in finance. They held over in deposits. Every VC on Sand Hill Road sent their founders there. The Pastebin logs show a typical Thursday: happy hour tickets on Slack, emoji reactions to "another unicorn IPO," and a risk analyst casually noting, "We are over-concentrated in long-duration treasuries." site%3apastebin.com+silicon+valley+bank

Fast forward to March 8, 2023. The Fed had been raising rates like a sledgehammer. SVB’s bond portfolio—bought when rates were zero—was now worth 20% less than face value. The leak reveals a panicked 2:00 AM internal memo: "We need to sell $21 billion in available-for-sale securities. We will take a $1.8 billion loss. Do not tell the VCs yet." At 9:15 AM, he logged off

And somewhere on a hard drive, svb_bloodbait.txt remains the perfect tombstone for the first bank killed by a group chat. Every VC on Sand Hill Road sent their founders there