Nancy Pelosi

Nancy Pelosi appears in Ron Conway, Founder, SV Angel: Silicon Valley Bank Crisis as one of Ron Conway’s central political contacts during the Silicon Valley Bank weekend. Conway says he called Pelosi while she was flying to San Francisco, and that she told him to come early to a dinner and set up a private war room with her and Barack Obama.

In Conway’s account, Pelosi quickly understood the payroll and job-creation stakes and helped frame the policy tension as Moral Hazard Contagion Tradeoff. She also asked Conway to join a California congressional delegation call while she was briefly unavailable, making her both a strategic adviser and a congressional-routing actor in the episode.

Connections

• Ron Conway, SV Angel, and Civic Relationships As Crisis Infrastructure - relationship path that made the call possible.
• Barack Obama, Sherrod Brown, Maxine Waters, and United States Congress - political actors in the source’s crisis network.
• Silicon Valley Bank, Deposit Guarantee Crisis Response, Moral Hazard Contagion Tradeoff, and Startup Payroll Systemic Risk - policy and economic stakes.