The amounts of money involved, the relative infrequency required and the relative ease of doing it mean it's absolutely not a waste of time. And it's done by smart companies all around the world today.
Talk to anyone in the treasury function at any company of any reasonable size, most of them will be doing it.
I think you’re missing the piece where “company” means any registered legal entity. This can be a single human to <= 8 employees to <= 50 employees to >= 1000.
You’re getting lost in the current context of what you assume to be SVB’s majority customer; the banger ‘unicorns’ we’ve all read about over the last decade, who would/should have this ‘treasury department’ you’re referencing.
Zoom tf out, remove SVB, and tell the guy who fixed your fucked plumbing last go around that his lack of a treasury department and/or insight into what his primary bank is doing with their deposits is a major problem and they deserve to eventually get fucked because of it. I’ll wait…
Talk to anyone in the treasury function at any company of any reasonable size, most of them will be doing it.