"This book describes the founding and ascent of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB). Interviews with the original founders and early employees to the current CEO of SVB demonstrate how the bank helps shape Silicon Valley and innovation centers worldwide from 1983 to the present"--

Xuan-Thao Nguyen is the Pendleton Miller Endowed Chair in Law at the University of Washington in Seattle. She has authored numerous books, treatises, and law review articles in the areas of intellectual property, finance, business, and taxation. She also serves as a senior consultant to the World Bank Group IFC.

1. The bank for the innovation economy; 2. The students - they asked; 3. Bank atrophy and outliers; 4. The Stanford professor and two bankers; 5. Be different from the beginning; 6. Against all odds; 7. Convincing the banking regulators; 8. SVB tech lending and the birth of venture debts; 9. Leveraging the VC relationships for expansion; 10. Into the premature future and banks' almost embrace of ESG; 11. SVB Sudden death and lessons learned in banking innovators.