I’ve seen a few conservative tweets trying to tie DEI and ESG into SVB’s collapse in a weird attempt to tie it to a cultural war. It just doesn’t make any sense. DEI and ESG are side shows for just about any company and probably pay for themselves as marketing and employee retention for a Silicon Valley focused bank.
The values “We keep learning and improving”, “We take responsibility”, and “We speak and act with integrity” would all play into managing money responsibly.
Not enough to put it on the page where they discuss things they value as an enterprise. Seems kinda important to leave out. And speaks to the failure of competency.
They don't value merit, they value meeting arbitrary quotas to look good, and now they met their end. Totally relevant.
You can see that managing money responsibly is not one of their values.