entity Updated 2026-07-25 Tags: Person, Treasury, Banking, Crisis-Response

Graham Steele

Graham Steele appears in Ron Conway, Founder, SV Angel: Silicon Valley Bank Crisis as the [[USTreasury|U.S. Treasury]] point person Wally Adeyemo directed Ron Conway to during the Silicon Valley Bank crisis. Conway says his pitch to Steele was that the government needed two words: “guarantee deposits.”

The page is source-scoped because the episode gives Steele a process role rather than a long biography. His main wiki relevance is the way the SVB weekend moved from startup panic into Treasury decision-making around Deposit Guarantee Crisis Response, Moral Hazard Contagion Tradeoff, and the Systemic Risk Exception.

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