Sherrod Brown

Sherrod Brown appears in Ron Conway, Founder, SV Angel: Silicon Valley Bank Crisis as a key Senate actor during the Silicon Valley Bank weekend. Ron Conway says Senator Mark Kelly connected him with Brown, and that he explained why SVB’s failure was not only a wealthy-VC problem but a startup, small-business, and payroll-risk problem.

The Sunday call is the source’s strongest Brown moment. Conway says he warned Brown that there were only hours left before the Tokyo market open and urged him to call Biden, Jeff Zients, Janet Yellen, and Jerome Powell to push for a deposit guarantee.

Connections

• Ron Conway, Nancy Pelosi, Maxine Waters, and United States Congress - congressional crisis-response route in the source.
• Silicon Valley Bank, First Republic Bank, and Deposit Guarantee Crisis Response - bank-stability context.
• Startup Payroll Systemic Risk, Moral Hazard Contagion Tradeoff, and Civic Relationships As Crisis Infrastructure - concepts strengthened by the episode.