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460 Five Years in Five Days: How I Panicked, Pivoted and Ultimately Survived as My Bank Melted Down

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Jessica E. Lessin @ The Information · 03/16/2023 15:42 EDT

Five Years in Five Days: How I Panicked, Pivoted and Ultimately Survived as My Bank Melted Down

It started with a text from a tech investor last Wednesday afternoon. Shares in Silicon Valley Bank were tanking following the announcement of an emergency stock sale, the person told me. The bank that I had used to establish The Information 10 years ago, and that I had stuck with since, was in danger of spontaneously combusting. The investor was warning me to get my money out—ASAP.

But the first thing I could think of wasn’t the money. It was the story.

For weeks, I had been asking our reporters and edit

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