I'm curious how you got that from this article. To quote, "SVB actually did relatively little lending, for a bank, and had rather a lot of safe bonds." That is, they were run like you would expect a small regional bank that doesn't like milking interest out of their region to be run. Straight forward take in deposits and stick them somewhere with silly modest returns.
Are there other sources going into shady things they were doing?
Are there other sources going into shady things they were doing?