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Silicon Valley Bank

Silicon Valley Bank

Dec 16, 2016

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6 min read

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The SVB Trek: A Young Entrepreneur’s Guide to Silicon Valley

Priya Rajan

, Director of Early Stage Banking and Leader of University Engagement Strategy at Silicon Valley Bank

So, what does it take to succeed as an entrepreneur? Two ingredients at the top are connections and guts. With that in mind, three years ago Silicon Valley Bank launched The SVB Trek.

We are inspired daily by the ingenuity and passion of the entrepreneurs and investors we work with at SVB. And by banking half of U.S. venture capital-backed companies and a growing global clientele, we gain killer insights early on. To champion the next generation of innovators, we open our doors each year to connect ambitious, entrepreneurially minded college students with creative minds, world-class investors and industry leaders. During the four-day Trek, we dive headlong into the innovation ecosystem through an immersive learning experience featuring salon-style events, interviews with industry luminaries and hands-on workshops, plus iconic tours throughout San Francisco and Silicon Valley.

Gaining Early Access to a Uniquely Diverse Network

SVB and our partners believe when you’re solving the world’s most difficult problems, access to forward-thinking problem solvers is critical. So The Trek aims to be an opportunity for students from across the world to build a network of peers and advisors, while gaining unique insights to propel them to the next stage of their career development.

Jake Mendel

’s career path was transformed after joining the 2016 Trek class a year ago. An Ohio State MBA student with two startups under his belt, Jake was toying with a career in investment banking. But then he did a gut-check. Today, he and fellow Trek alum Zeenia Kaul have raised enough capital to launch a company focused on nutriceutical supplements for cancer patients in remission. Their partnership took root at The Trek.

Meet the SVB Trek Class of 2017

The Trek selection process is rigorous, and we work side by side with leading universities to find a small group of students each year who reflect diverse backgrounds, academic experiences and career pursuits.

The trailblazers in the Trek Class of 2017 have already achieved impressive feats. They include: the inventor of gloves that translate sign language to English; the co-founder of an app that measures air quality to determine when to stay inside; a developer of an educational program to help autistic students communicate; a developer of an alternative source of protein in the form of crickets, the CEO of a platform to mobilize individuals to invest collaboratively and the developer of a “lawyer” bot that appeals parking tickets for free.

Our “guides” at The Trek are in the trenches and have lived through the ups and downs of startup life. We encourage these technology leaders to candidly recount their startup journey, including their failures.

Some of the guides for this year’s Trek include

Peter Boyce

II, Co-Founder of Rough Draft Ventures and VC at

General Catalyst

,

Jess Lee

,Partner at Sequoia Capital,

Mike Maples, Jr.

, Partner at Floodgate, and

Clara Shih

, Co-Founder and CEO of

Hearsay Social

.

Here are the 2017 Trek student participants:

>>18496442

>Here are the 2017 Trek student participants:

Eric Blondeel

• Co-Founder/CTO ExVivo, a Waterloo-based startup building next generation medical diagnostic tools

• PhD, Chemical Engineering, University of Waterloo

Alexander Brewster

• Desai Accelerator participant

• BS, Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan

Ben Brook

• Founder, Stealth startup

• BS, Computer Science, Harvard University

Joshua Browder

• Founder, DoNotPay, “the world’s first robot lawyer”

• BS, Computer Science, Stanford University

Morgan Cheatham

• CEO of Lasso Investing, a platform targeted toward Gen-Z and millennial investors by mobilizing individuals to invest collaboratively and share investing strategies with others in their professional and social networks

• BS, Computer Science, Brown University

Jaclyn Daily, Fernanda Delgado Rumayor, Vruti Desai, John Draikiwicz, Kaitlyn Gayvert (left to right)

Jaclyn Daily

• Intern, Innovation Park Notre Dame

• BS, Finance, University of Notre Dame

Fernanda Delgado Rumayor

• Co-Founder, Sustainable Energy Startup

• BS, Sustainable Development Engineering, Tecnológico de Monterrey

Vruti Desai

• Founder, Expression for Autism, educational program to help students with autism improve communication skills, build confidence, and spur creativity

• BS, Business Administration, University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business

John Draikiwicz

• Engineering and Kessler Fellow at Starsky Robotics

• BS, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Cornell University

Kaitlyn Gayvert

• PhD, Computational Medicine, Cornell University

• Named to Forbes’ 2016 30 under 30 List

Peter Gebhard

, Jenny Liu, April Lovelady,

Nathaniel Medina

, Charlie Maynard (left to right)

Peter Gebhard

• Senior Embedded Systems Research Programmer at PRECISE research center

• MS, Embedded Systems, University of Pennsylvania

Jenny Liu

• Finance whiz and startup consultant

• MS, Entrepreneurship and Innovation, University of Southern California, Marshall School of Business

April Lovelady

• Biomedical Engineering Post Doctoral & Entrepreneurial Lead, Texas A&M University

Nathaniel Medina

• Co-Founder, Impulse Labs — “a quick way to find someone to do something with”

• BS, Business Administration, University of California, Berkeley

Charlie Maynard

• Co-Founder, BookMyShow Indonesia, a cinema and event ticketing e-commerce platform

• MBA, Stanford University, Stanford Graduate School of Business

Zuhayeer Musa

, Thomas Pryor, Reem Qawasmi,

Éire Smith

, Kyle Walden (left to right)

Zuhayeer Musa

• Co-Founder, Bash, a simple way to arrange activities with friends

• BS, Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley

Thomas Pryor

• Inventor, Gloves which translate sign language to English (hand gesture interpretation apparatus for translating hand gestures)

• BS, Aerospace Engineering, University of Washington

Reem Qawasmi

• Ibtikar Fund, an investment fund focused on Palestinian startups

• MBA, Texas A&M University, Mays Business School

Éire Smith

• Co-Founder, Small Farms, an alternative source of protein in the form of crickets.

• BS, Business & Economics, Trinity College, Dublin

Kyle Walden

• Co-Founder, KrafftIT/INHALE, an app to allow you to learn about the air around you and help you organize your day based on when it’s best for you to be outside

• BS, Business, University of Southern California

Lynn Wang

, Daniel Wu, Venkata Yelleswarapu, Yidan Zhang,

Kimberli

Zhong (left to right)

Lynn Wang

• Founder, Xbootcamp

• MBA, Harvard University, Harvard Business School

Daniel Wu

• Co-Founder, Welcome Home, a real estate startup

• JD/PhD student, Harvard University, Harvard Law School

Venkata Yelleswarapu

• Fellow at the Penn Center for Innovation (PCI)

• PhD, Bioengineering, University of Pennsylvania

Yidan Zhang

• Co-founder, Delivice, Ann Arbor’s next day grocery delivery service

• BS, Computer Science, University of Michigan

Kimberli Zhong

• Student Partner at Rough Draft Ventures, powered by General Catalyst

• KPCB Engineering Fellow

• BS, Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

>>18496442

>The SVB Trek: A Young Entrepreneur’s Guide to Silicon Valley

>>18496456

>https://web.archive.org/web/20190214203438/https://www.svb.com/about-us/living-our-values/inclusion-diversity/

Tomorrow's Innovators

Inclusion & Diversity

Public Policy Engagement

Community Involvement

TOMORROW’S INNOVATORS

Inspiring the Next Generation of Entrepreneurs

The Trek aims to be an opportunity for students from across the world to build a network of peers and advisors, while gaining unique insights to propel them to the next stage of their career development.

SVB TREK

To champion the next generation of innovators, Silicon Valley Bank opens its doors each year to connect ambitious, entrepreneurially minded college students with creative minds, world-class investors and industry leaders. During the four-day Trek, participants dive headlong into the innovation ecosystem through an immersive learning experience featuring salon-style events, interviews with industry luminaries and hands-on workshops. For general inquiries contact Priya Rajan.

Inclusion and Diversity

Diversity makes a difference

A diverse and inclusive workplace expands possibilities for everyone. Innovation happens when people with varied experiences and backgrounds feel empowered to work to their full potential. Different perspectives and fresh viewpoints drive creative solutions—and give companies a competitive edge. Silicon Valley Bank is working to increase diversity internally and throughout the innovation ecosystem.

Tacking Tech's Lack of Diversity

Listen to SVB's Head of Relationship Banking in Europe Erin Platts and UKTN Editor Yessi Bello Perez discuss practical ways in which technology entrepreneurs can ensure they build diverse workforces, investors back more women and entrepreneurs from diverse backgrounds, and the power of leveraging data to make informed decisions.

Leading with Inclusion

In 2014, SVB launched a firm-wide inclusion and diversity survey to understand our employees’ experiences, interests and priorities; the results identified areas of opportunity to raise awareness and understanding, and informed our inclusion and diversity strategy moving forward.

We launched Unconscious Bias workshops in 2015, to understand how we can interrupt biases in our decision-making.

Building upon that foundational program, we began rolling out additional workshops with SVB’s leaders across our global offices in 2016. The goal for these ongoing workshops is to provide managers with practical and actionable tips to mitigate unintentional bias through the language we use to talk about talent and leadership at SVB.We also provide training and resources to enable our employees to be inclusiveleaders and active advocates for leveraging our teams’ diverse experiences to help our clients make an impact on the world.

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Xfund

@xfund

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>>18496194

muh frank dodd

Dodd-Frank Act: What It Does, Major Components, Criticisms

By Adam Hayes

Updated September 08, 2022

Reviewed by Thomas Brock

Fact checked by Katrina Munichiello

Katrina Avila Munichiello

What Is the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act?

The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act is legislation that was passed by the U.S. Congress in response to financial industry behavior that led to financial crisis of 2007–2008. It sought to make the U.S. financial system safer for consumers and taxpayers.

Named for sponsors Sen. Christopher J. Dodd (D-Conn.) and Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), the act contains numerous provisions, spelled out over 848 pages, that were to be implemented over a period of several years.1

Key Takeaways

The Dodd-Frank Act targeted financial system sectors that were believed to have caused the 2007–2008 financial crisis.

Leading up to 2007, lax regulations led to extremely risky lending practices, which caused a housing sector bubble that ultimately burst and drove the global crisis, the need for public bailouts of financial institutions, and recession.

Those institutions seen as responsible included banks, insurance companies, investment banking firms, mortgage lenders, and credit rating agencies.

Critics of the law argue that the regulatory burdens it imposes could make U.S. firms less competitive than their foreign counterparts.2

In 2018, Congress passed a new law that rolled back some of Dodd-Frank’s restrictions.3

Understanding the Dodd-Frank Act

The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act is a massive piece of financial reform legislation that was passed in 2010, during the Obama administration.

Commonly known as the Dodd-Frank Act, or Dodd-Frank, it established a number of new government agencies tasked with overseeing the various components of the law and, by extension, various aspects of the financial system.

The 2007-2008 financial crisis is perhaps the worst economic catastrophe to befall the country (and world) since the Wall Street crash in 1929. Broadly speaking, it was caused by the greed-driven behavior and lax oversight of financial institutions.

The loosening of financial industry regulations in the decades leading up to 2007 allowed various types of institutions in the U.S. financial services industry to lend money in ways that were riskier than ever before. The housing sector in particular experienced massive growth that couldn't be supported.

The bubble burst, sending the banking industry and global stock markets into a downfall. It created the worst global recession in generations.

Dodd-Frank was created to keep anything similar from ever happening again.

The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act was intended to prevent another financial crisis like the one in 2007–2008.

Components of the Dodd-Frank Act

Here are some of the law’s key provisions and how they work:

>>18496658

>muh frank dodd

>>18496194

Mr Brownstone himself

Copied from my Steemit article on the topic: https://steemit.com/pizzagate/@rebelskum/what-is-operation-brownstone-a-brownstone-operation-is-it-real-more-than-likely

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Preface

The existence of"Operation Brownstone" and "Brownstone operations" is not yet officially recognized as operating procedures of the U.S. government. This topic is considered by many to be purely speculation as it is largely based on circumstantial and anecdotal evidence, but there have been many requests to address this particular topic here on this site. Some of the witness testimony from Jeffrey Epstein victim, Virginia Roberts, and the Palm Beach Police Department resembles such an operation. We will discuss what we know based on what few sources exist that seem to support that such operations indeed existed and have taken place.

Operation Brownstone, also known as a "Brownstone operation," is a reference to a theory that intelligence agencies, such as the CIA and FBI, engage in utilizing underage individuals for prostitution purposes with high profile targets, for the purposes of being able to blackmail those high profile individuals later. Generally, the incidents are recorded via videotape and the underage victims are debriefed after the encounter.

Origin of the term "Operation Brownstone"

>Brownstone is a brown Triassic-Jurassic sandstone which was once a popular building material. The term is also used in the United States to refer to a townhouse clad in this material.

Source: Wikipedia

In the late 1980's, Representative Barney Frank admitted that his former partner, Stephen Gobie, ran a prostitution ring out of his apartment, in the base of a brownstone in Washington, DC. However, Frank denied all knowledge of Gobie's activities and said he kicked Gobie out when he learned the truth. (source) A brief video summary is available on YouTube.

The speculative element is that Frank knew of the prostitution ring that ran out of his apartment and that the ring involved sex with minors, with recordings of the illicit activities to be used later for blackmail purposes. It is unclear what individual first used the term "Operation Brownstone" - perhaps former FBI Agent Ted Gunderson who spoke frequently on this scandal - but the term referred to these alleged blackmail operations that took place specifically at the brownstone which housed Frank's apartment.

The Barney Frank scandal would be part of two other individual but heavily interconnected scandals: The DC Call Boy Scandal and the Franklin Scandal.