Pre-SVB: SV was full of some really smart people, many of whom didn't realize their skills and experience don't translate to other areas (eg pretty much anything to do with crypto) combined with some salesmen, some of whom are snake oil salesmen. Together they are more and more resembling the rest of Corporate America with performative cultures, privatizing their own luck, often having unearned bravado and increasingly perverting government to rig the game.
Post-SVB: Not much has changed.
There is a ton of misunderstanding about SVB. Some think we're bailing out billionaires. We're not. There's a lot you can criticize the governemnt for. This isn't one of those situations. SVB didn't manage its risk and fell out of compliance with its debt ratios. The government stepped in, dissolved the bank, paid out the depositors and the shareholders are at the back of the line. And it cost the taxpayers nothing.
I've long been convinced Peter Thiel is awful in pretty much every way. I hope this gets investigated because there's a reasonable suspicion that Thiel created a run on SVB, either intentionally or just accidentally. Why? Who knows.