Tariffs, Tech, and Turbulence: Insights from SVB's former Chief Risk Officer

About this episode

Melissa Widner interviews Marc Verissimo to discuss how tariffs and market turbulence are affecting the SaaS industry.

In this special episode, Melissa Widner sits down with Marc Verissimo⁠ ⁠, Chairman of Lighter Capital and former Chief Risk Officer at Silicon Valley Bank, to unpack how tariffs, market turbulence, and a shifting economic landscape may reshape the SaaS world. With Marc's decades of banking and finance expertise, he shares practical insights that SaaS founders will want to know for how to navigate a changing investment climate successfully .

People in this episode

Host: Melissa Widner

Guest: Marc Verissimo

Topics covered

• tariffs
• market turbulence
• economic landscape
• SaaS
• investment climate
• banking
• finance

Keywords

• tariffs
• SaaS
• investment climate
• market turbulence
• banking
• finance
• economic landscape

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Lighter Capital, Silicon Valley Bank

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