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How one software engineer is turning Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse story into a musical



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Mauricio Costa, a software engineer and music composer living in Atlanta, is creating a musical comedy out of the Silicon Valley Bank collapse, called “The Valley.”
Perhaps the wounds are still fresh, but Costa told TechCrunch while reading articles about the bank’s demise and trying to understand what was going on, “I could see the entire hero’s journey and the hero’s lifecycle on this story, so I thought maybe there’s something here and maybe we can tell the story in a way that nobody has ever seen before.”
Mauricio Costa is writing a musical about Silicon Valley Bank. Image Credits: Mauricio Costa
Tapping into well-known playwright Lin-Manuel Miranda as his inspiration, Costa is giving “The Valley” a gospel and hip-hop feel and described the story as where ve …

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