How a poker game launched Silicon Valley Bank's four-decade ride of the tech wave, and a bad gamble 42 ended it

In the early Eighties, when “High Tech” was still written with quotation marks and the region was starting to become known as The Silicon Valley, tennis buddies Bob Medearis and Bill Biggerstaff took their idea for a new bank to a poker game in Pajaro Dunes.

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