This situation with SVD. It's right now it's an evolving situation. For us it's a someday evening in the US time. The situation right now is that another bank, Signature Bank, failed and just had a stepped in and guaranteed full deposit for both Signature Bank and Silicon Valley Bank for everybody to get their money out on Monday, which is really positive after the weekend went and how much screaming there was on Twitter.
这个关于SVD的情况,现在是一个不断发展的情况。对于我们而言,在美国时间的某个晚上。现在的情况是,另一家银行Signature Bank破产了,Silicon Valley Bank为了让每个人都能在周一取出他们的钱,替Signature Bank做了担保,并保证了所有存款的全额。在周末结束后,在Twitter上的尖叫声有多大,这真的是相当积极的。
But more importantly for this podcast is like what was or is the relationship open or how could this affect them? Tyler, do you have any information?
Yeah, so I commented about this on Twitter this this past week when I heard about it. I heard from one of my sources, quite trust, that Open Door has less than 1% of their capital in Silicon Valley Bank and none of their critical business accounts are run out of Silicon Valley Bank, which was encouraging to hear. I mean it's a move point now because it sounds like no one's going to be missing their money anyways.
But I will say there is a historic relationship between Silicon Valley Bank and Open Door and a lot of the founders of Open Door have recognized the idea that without Silicon Valley Bank support early on, there probably wouldn't be an Open Door. And I think that's probably the case for a lot of disruptive and private technology companies in Silicon Valley over the past few decades who partnered with Silicon Valley Bank.
So I think overall, and maybe this is a separate topic. I mean when you look into the cause of all of this, it really does appear to be mismanaged funds. But I will say it's a huge blow for the startup community and it's unfortunate to see because Silicon Valley was very important for founders.
Yeah, there's probably some other better podcasts to cover like what XC went from here. It probably wouldn't have just the fact that Silicon Valley Bank, but as we see now with signature bank and probably some other banks that are in this in no situation where they have a very long duration but low interest instruments that wouldn't be worth the same as they were when rates were lower.
So if everybody is going to get for their money and the bank would probably not be able to cover the amounts of time in time, I guess that's what happened here. And the spicy thing is because in Silicon Valley, a lot about herd mentality, everybody's running to the same sector. If it's crypto or like AI, everybody wants to fund the same things. Obviously if the big VC companies tell their companies to pull up money out of Silicon Valley Bank, everybody else was also running after the money.
I think in the end what happened on Fridays that 25% of deposits, like over 40 billion dollars, I don't know, got fired out and that kind of result in whatever shock we saw after that. And the risk is that this could happen to other banks. So that's why they've had stuff in and said, hey, all the deposits, not just the insured part we will cover them from the right decision.
I think just a double tap on that. And like you said, this isn't really the podcast to go into exactly what happened, but I think we can we can simplify this a little bit. I think there's there's two things that you look for for security in a bank when you have a massive deposit, right? One is how much of it is insured by the federal government. And only banks really have that designation that's part of what gives them power as banks, right? But then the other thing is how much liquidity does that bank have?
And the liquidity profile, how much cash do they actually have available in the event that there is a bank run so they could cover all deposits, right? So that ratio is really important. And I think a lot of the really powerful banks in the United States, like the JP Morgan, the Wells Fargo, Bank of America, those types of companies, they have massive liquidity profiles because of the 2008 financial crisis. But for Silicon Valley bank, you know, you you look at what happened in the past couple of years.
You think open door mis timed mortgage rates and interest rates, right? Like Silicon Valley bank was even worse, right? They bought 80 billion of mortgage-back securities when interest rates were near zero, trying to get a 1.5% yield. And then the Fed raised interest rate 75 basis points four times. And then again, you know, 50, et cetera. And you're in a situation where those 80 billion dollars of assets are only gaining one and a half percent when your consumer bank get like so far or whatever is giving you 4%. People start wanting more yield on their funds.
And I think now because Silicon Valley bank didn't have very much of their assets insured by the federal government number one, but two really just didn't have a liquidity compared to their deposits. They're in a situation where a bank run made it very easy for them to go under. Yeah, it will be interesting what the consequences of this are in the next two months.
I mean, people are speculating from let maybe rate hikes will slow down or stop, which is obviously great from mortgage rates probably, but who knows what else will break in this environment?
Yeah, what what is important to know is that you mentioned as far as we know, open door when we had a very small amount of money and Silicon Valley bank. Obviously public companies don't disclose who they're lending or banking partners are. This is not part of any rules.
I don't think anybody discloses that. So we don't know for sure if any of their lending facilities are there or not, but there's a really great podcast that dot phrase or did on the podcast the operator.
I think the podcast is from Damien, who is at Sounders Fund. It's very, very great podcast. It gives you a history of open door capital stack from like founding to post IPO. I think the podcast is from 2021.
I definitely recommend listening to that. If you are really interested in how the sausage is maize on the capital stack of open door and dot specifically said that like Silicon Valley bank was not the right partner to scale and really get to the to the right cost structure.
Right. And I think that's the other point that's important to double tap here is Silicon Valley bank would be a great partner for risky, unproven business model, right? Like a startup. And because of that increased risk, their interest rates, right?
How much they're expected to earn on those assets is a lot higher than you might get at a different bank. You know, that's that's okay. Perhaps, you know, for software companies that are more early stage, mid stage, and open door early stage.
But for company like open door, which is looking for 10% gross profit margins maximum capital efficiencies really, really important. And you want the lowest cost structure for your for your debt, for your access to financing and Silicon Valley bank is absolutely not that person, right? Like they're just they're just a different business model.
And so I think really important upfront for open door, but it wouldn't make sense for open door to have any significance or large proportion of funding with Silicon Valley bank at this stage of their life cycle.
Yeah. And everything does really important to state like that because a lot of speculation on Twitter were because of some headlines, people expected the open doors like Hunter said funded by Silicon Valley bank, but that's just the how this works.
It would make sense with what's been going on in the past year if that was the end, but it's just not true. Yeah.
如果那真的是结局的话,那过去的一年发生的一切都有意义,但事实并非如此。是的。
All right. I'm glad we covered this likely what we should expect by next week or maybe we shouldn't anymore because of the announcement from the Fed, but like on Friday, a lot of public companies filed a nail 8k, a announcement of doing a material impact to their business.
So we so we so we're going on that they had like $500 million in in Silicon Valley bank. We hope that we will see something from this from open door as well because even 1% if it's if you're thinking about a quarterly basis, if that 1% would be gone, it would be kind of material.
I think they would have until Wednesday to file this, they have a few days, but at this point, we might not even see that fighting anymore because there is no material impact.
So we might never know how much money we actually had in Silicon Valley bank, but like it's unlikely that it's a big amount.
因此,我们可能永远不知道我们在硅谷银行实际拥有多少钱,但很可能其金额不大。
I don't want open door leadership, right? Like the C-suite to tweet like Elon Musk, but it would be nice every once in a while to just get a few comment. You know what I mean?
Imagine if Kerry just logged on to her Twitter with, you know, she's like never on Twitter, but if she just logged on and she was she was like, hey, we don't have any capital in Silicon Valley bank or we had x percentage and just the sigh of relief from the investment community.
Wouldn't that be a great use of social media? You know what I mean? From a crisis management perspective and investor relations, I just feel like some of these things, it would just be really nice if it just solves with five seconds of work in a bathroom break.
Yeah, I totally agree. I mean, there is obviously something to it that you don't want to be untruthy, especially when you're open door because basically 90% what you get is hate.
And your customers are not there. There's nothing that really is great. There's my mandatory business to be on Twitter every day as Kerry we look, but in these cases, yeah, just like if why I something like that would have been helpful.
As long as it's not everyone relax, everything is fine. Don't worry. Those are the code words for like get your money out right now, right? We've learned that from Silicon Valley Bank CEO and obviously Sam Bankman Fried, they both did the exact same thing.
And then the next day the company went under wild.
然后第二天,公司疯狂地垮了。
意思为公司突然垮了。
Yeah, I guess in hindsight, it's also good to just wait a few more days and then in primary source it tells me as well, but yeah, some more communication would be helpful.