Charlie Walker retweeted
Terrific to celebrate with the Cloud 100, well done to all of our clients listed - a whopping 70% work with us!! @SiliconVlyBank still by far the market leader in the Innovation Economy as we have been for over 40 years. Come work with us, we understand your journey. Yes. svb!
Congrats to all of the SVB clients on @Forbes’ 2024 #Cloud100 list!
We are very proud to bank 70% of this year’s list, which ranks the world’s top private cloud computing companies.
bit.svb.com/3SG8fSY @SalesforceVC @BessemerVP
Charlie Walker retweeted
This is the best time to start a company in 30 years.
I’ll summarize some of the best opportunities for you:
1. Buy distressed VC assets. Recap them. Offer team dividends going forward. Turn them into profit machines.
2. The media apocalypse is here. 20,000+ media employees have been LAID off in the last 12 months. From Condé Nast to Washington Post. How can you build a new media company that's profitable, AI-powered and community-first with that talent?
3. Apple Vision Pro App Store. 400,000 headsets will be sold in the next 12 months. it looks like a joke until it isnt. Create unique apps for that app store, be first.
4. The Figma-fication of everything. Turning software that was once single-player into multi-player is a generational opportunity. The future of software looks like Arc, Figma etc.
5. SaaS business model is dying. People are tired of Saas Subscriptions. One-time payments or pay-per-task SaaS is becoming normal.
6. Eldertech. Boomers are retiring. Probably one of the most underserved audiences. So much to be built for them.
7. Leverage creators, they are mispriced. Most creators can’t monetize beyond brand deals. They have distribution old media dreams of. Partner with them. Help them productize themselves and earn upside.
8. GPT Store. Fastest growing product of all time just launched an app store? Literally the next App Store.
9. Agents for everyone. You get an agent, and you get an agent and you get an agent. Who will be the Oprah of AI agents?
10. Productized services. How can you make a service like a product? Enable it by global workforce and AI. We built meetdispatch.com to build marketing assets for folks on a monthly basis. People pay us monthly fee to turn their market assets (landing pages, lead magnets, social assets) into revenue generating machines. Business does 7 figures overnight.
11. The unbundling of ChatGPT. ChatGPT won’t be everything to everyone. Just like how Craigslist, Reddit etc got unbundled, so will ChatGPT. ChatGPT for X.
12. Internet memberships are the new community. Digital communities that sell workshops, IRL events, software, deals etc. I created a limited membership with a monthly email with startup ideas, trends, private Q&A, free $99/month Skool sub, software deals and built $27k MRR in 3 months. skool.com/community-empire-6…
13. The rise of the detox economy. People are overloaded with screens and seed oils. Build businesses for this new detox economy
14. High Interest rates at 5-6% make companies want to increase profits, reduce costs. There’s a bunch of businesses to create to help them do it.
15. Almost half of gen-z doesn’t believe in religion. The rise of community-based brands. This is your opportunity to build things they feel connected to.
16. Happiness, fulfillment, stability, and safety are at all-time lows for gen-z relative to other generations. How can we build products, services to help them?
17. Google is being completely rewritten thanks to AI. Billions of visits up for grabs. People are calling it "SEO 2.0". Learn how to do it yourself (boringmarketing.com/freecour… or hire someone boringmarketing.com). These "boring" ways to get customers (like SEO) will only get more popular
18. Privacy-first startups. Yeah most people care more about convenience than anything, but there’s a growing privacy movement. The more people get hacked and phished, the more they care about their privacy and security.
19. TikTok stores. Today, I met an 18 year old guy who made $1m in the last 45 days from a TikTok store. He sourced the product, partnered with a creator, never raised $1 and was profitable on every purchase. I think you'll start seeing more of these stories with the rise of social selling, live (IG live/TikTok live) selling.
20. Multipreneurship. Portfolio of internet businesses instead of one internet business. Small mindset shift, big difference. Buy small profitable businesses to help scale it. Fund it via customers ideally.
21. The pop of the newsletter bubble. When the newsletter bubble pops (yes, when), it'll be an opportunity to scoop up interesting newsletters and aggregate and take them from a newsletter business to a business powered by a newsletter
AND MANY MORE OPPORTUNITIES. This is just a few to get your creative juices flowing.
After reading this, do you agree the opportunities right now are kinda mind blowing?
Every business is made out of thin air.
Just a good idea, the right timing and consistency.
The right timing is now.
It fires me up, does it fire you up?
Do you agree? What am I missing?
(in the next tweet ill give you some free resources for your journey)
Charlie Walker retweeted
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Emphasis on the last part there, the SVB commercial and private banks are NOT part of this chapter 11 filing. Those continue to be fully open, with huge amounts of support coming from VCs and companies.
Charlie Walker retweeted
1/SVB CEO is speaking to clients right now; Very clear message that primary plan is to transition to something that would allow for it to remain as a going concern (w/different wrapper of sorts), and why FDIC took route of bridge entity.
A few points:
Charlie Walker retweeted
1/ Update on what I know about SVB situation. New info on industry call with new CEO last night.
Their main message, "we are open for business, your deposits are fully FDIC insured & safe"
They understand you will have cash in multiple banks, they would like to be one of them
Charlie Walker retweeted
At @generalcatalyst we are continuing to work actively with Silicon Valley Bank as are a number of other venture firms: @BessemerVP @GreylockVC @lightspeedvp @Lux_Capital @MayfieldFund @Redpoint @svangel @upfrontvc. We ask the rest of the global VC community to join us.
There is an excellent bank here, full of people passionate about innovation across the USA and ready to serve its 26,000+ clients.
SVB just sent this to customers... great to see them getting back in the game.
Rooting for the brand to have a comeback and thankful that regulators, @potus, and @secyellen took decisive action!
VC community coming together to demonstrate support to #saveSVB is heartwarming.
While there are many conversations underway, we are opening our statement to the broader VC Community to signal our collective need for a strong banking partner for our community. To add your firm, email [email protected]. tinyurl.com/VCCommunitySVBSt… #SVB
Charlie Walker retweeted
While there are many conversations underway, we are opening our statement to the broader VC Community to signal our collective need for a strong banking partner for our community. To add your firm, email [email protected]. tinyurl.com/VCCommunitySVBSt… #SVB
Charlie Walker retweeted
Replying to @danprimack
You're absolutely right. I'm perplexed at how little people know about banking. SVB screwed up buying long-term, reasonably safe, securities with a client base that's subject to volatility. That's it. The issues are not systemic (lending/credit).
Charlie Walker retweeted
As a past customer & a former employee @SVB_Financial, I agree 100% with @msuster. The amount of support SVB has given to the VC community over the years is in no small part what made our industry so successful. Now is the time to give back to an institution that gave us all so much.
1/ More in the VC community need to speak out publicly to quell the panic about @SVB_Financial ... I believe their CEO when he says they are solvent and not in violation of any banking ratios & goal was to raise & strengthen balance sheet
Charlie Walker retweeted
1/ More in the VC community need to speak out publicly to quell the panic about @SVB_Financial ... I believe their CEO when he says they are solvent and not in violation of any banking ratios & goal was to raise & strengthen balance sheet
My colleague @MelinaBergkamp on what’s to come for #CVC investment
Have noticed several prominent VC newsletters this week referencing an impending slowdown in #CVC activity if/as we see a market correction - here's why I think that WON'T be the case. 👇 1/7
Scared of failure? Don't be! On Dec 14th join Silicon Valley Bank's Sunita Patel in discussion with Lak Ananth, CEO of Next47 and author of new book "Anticipate Failure". - events.svb.com/anticipatefai…
Thank you for your help @jim_adler and the @Toyota_AI_VC team!
Via @cchwalker, @Jim_Adler explains why #autonomousvehicle tech is accelerating: "The pandemic has heightened the need for autonomous vehicle technology, and it’s easier for society as a whole to recognize the benefits of AV technologies." Read more: svb.com/blogs/charlie-walker…
Charlie Walker retweeted
Via @cchwalker, @Jim_Adler explains why #autonomousvehicle tech is accelerating: "The pandemic has heightened the need for autonomous vehicle technology, and it’s easier for society as a whole to recognize the benefits of AV technologies." Read more: svb.com/blogs/charlie-walker…
Thanks @jenthompson622 !
Brilliant! #autonomous vehicles pivot their businesses to delivering essential goods during the pandemic helping get them back on the road bit.svb.com/38rE2k8 @cchwalker @SVB_Financial

























