We just can't understand how SVB failed with people like this

Just one member of Silicon Valley Bank’s board of directors had an investment banking career, according to the Daily Mail, while the others were major donors to the Democratic Party.

Tom King, previously the CEO of investment banking at Barclay’s, was appointed to the SVB board in September.

However, King is the only one with a career in the financial industry. Others include a former employee in the Obama administration, a donor to former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and a major donor to Hillary Clinton, who prayed at a Shinto shrine when Donald Trump defeated Clinton in the 2016 presidential election.