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In 2016, I started a New York-based creative agency that specialized in branded content. Among creative agencies, the trend at the time was for names that sounded like punk bands and I unfortunately chose The Insurrection. As of last week the only thing that aged worse than the name was my choice of bank: Silicon Valley Bank, which has now become the most spectacular example of a bank failure since the 2008 financial crisis. (I briefly lost access to our company’s funds, but I’m fine; my deposits were low enough to be covered by F.D.I.C. guarantees.)

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