The story of the sudden and dramatic collapse of Silicon Valley Bank is chock-full of lessons. There is an important lesson to be learned about what can happen when a bank is overexposed to risk in a volatile market environment, and there is a lesson about how investor panic can cause an entire financial institution to come crashing down. But more importantly, there is also a lesson about how patient investors can use these moments of crisis to capture value opportunities in the capital markets. As this article explains, successful investors like Warren Buffett and Peter Lynch have learned that last lesson—and used it to their advantage.