Kamala Harris

Kamala Harris appears in Ron Conway, Founder, SV Angel: Silicon Valley Bank Crisis as Vice President during the Silicon Valley Bank weekend. Ron Conway says he had known Harris since her time as San Francisco district attorney and that her office called him on Sunday as the decision deadline approached.

Conway says Harris asked for the situation straight, heard that California small businesses could miss payroll and that bank contagion could spread, then called Janet Yellen, President Biden, Jeff Zients, and Jerome Powell with urgency. The page keeps that sequence source-scoped because the episode is Conway’s participant account.

Connections

• Ron Conway and Civic Relationships As Crisis Infrastructure - relationship path described by the episode.
• Silicon Valley Bank, Deposit Guarantee Crisis Response, and Startup Payroll Systemic Risk - problem Harris is said to have escalated.
• Janet Yellen, Jerome Powell, [[USTreasury|U.S. Treasury]], and Federal Reserve - policy actors named in the escalation chain.