6-2021: Tech Diaspora Acceleration

1729@oneseventwonine

Miami Tech Week represents the start of startup cities. When Silicon Valley didn't innovate, the people who built Silicon Valley began building alternatives to Silicon Valley itself.

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The Start Of Startup Cities

Mayor Francis Suarez@FrancisSuarez

We are so excited to announce the dates for Miami Tech Week 2022 alongside @foundersfund and @eMergeAmericas Get ready for the ultimate week of tech, networking, and jobs with founders and funders from Miami and all over the 🌍

delian 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 @zebulgar

Ladies and Gentlemen Thank you all for an absolutely vibrant inaugural Miami Tech Week And I'm excited to announce Miami Tech Week 2022, Apr 17th - 24th We'll do it even bigger and better, and yes it'll be a vibe https://t.co/IAnrhQ70Wq https://t.co/NcNzkhAZuq

Wen-Wen@wenwen

There's a lot of buzz about miami because of #miamitechweek and people have been asking me what I think about living and working in Miami for the past few months. My thoughts:

Rosa Jiménez Cano@petezin

A real Silicon Valley connoisseur (YC founder, sold @nextravelinc to @travelperk, now VC @GradientVC), @wenwen, moved recently to Miami. A bunch of reflections and learnings that explains why the moment is now. #miamitechweek is just a sign, but there's much more. #MiamiTech

Wen-Wen @wenwen

There's a lot of buzz about miami because of #miamitechweek and people have been asking me what I think about living and working in Miami for the past few months. My thoughts:

1729@oneseventwonine

Miami Tech Week represents the start of startup cities. When Silicon Valley didn't innovate, the people who built Silicon Valley began building alternatives to Silicon Valley itself.

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The Start Of Startup Cities

will harris@boujeehacker

"@NomadList and teleport are search engines for individual digital nomads. What does a tool for collective migration look like?" fascinating question from @balajis

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The Start Of Startup Cities

Doug Ludlow@dougludlow

California HAS to fix its relationship with tech, or what happened to Detroit in the 20th century will happen to us. Tech workers are fleeing to low cost of living states, TX, UT, CO. Tech money (VCs, PE) is fleeing to low-tax states, FL, TX. This is real & its happening live.

balajis.com@balajis

Miami Tech Week is an important milestone in the history of startup cities. It proves that the customer base for cities is not just mobile, but capable of collective choice. In other words, startup cities are now feasible because the market for cities is now manifest.

1729 @oneseventwonine

Create an essay or microsite on the rise of startup cities. Write about places like Miami, Starbase, Culdesac, Dubai, or Prospera — both inside and outside the US. The best 10 submissions will receive $100 in BTC. https://t.co/co0y1iS4b7

jason@calacanis.com@Jason

Nope

Jon Blackwell @Bazilly

@Jason is this still true? https://t.co/eARifyUijI

Chris Herd@chris_herd

Bill Gates believes 100M+ workers will work remotely after Covid A few things companies must get right to succeed [ a thread ] 💻🏠🌏

Coinbase News@CoinbaseNews

Coinbase is committed to being remote first. We announced we no longer have an HQ and as a next step, we’re closing our SF office (our former HQ) in 2022.

Bryan Beal 🎧@bryanrbeal

I knew Google would back off of their demand for all employees to return full time to the office. Just didn’t know it would happen so fast.

Sundar Pichai @sundarpichai

The future of work at Google is flexibility. The majority of our employees still want to be on campus some of the time yet many would also enjoy the flexibility of working from home a couple days a week…

Sundar Pichai@sundarpichai

...spending time in another city for part of the year, or even moving there permanently. Google’s future workplace will have room for all of these possibilities. We’re moving to a hybrid work week with most Googlers in the office approximately 3 days a week.

Sundar Pichai@sundarpichai

I’m optimistic these changes will help us do our best work and have fun doing it, with about 60% of Googlers working together in the office a few days a week, 20% working in new office locations & 20% working from home. Here’s the note I sent to Googlers.

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A hybrid approach to work

Chris Herd@chris_herd

If Google – arguably the provider of the best office working experience on the planet – was forced to cancel plans to go back to the office full-time because its people want to work remotely What do you think is about to happen inside every other company that tries it?

Kumar@datarade

Every major tech company will need a work from home policy to attract and compete for the best talent. WFH is way more inclusive than offices and a lot less environmentally pollutive.

balajis.com@balajis

The next Silicon Valley is in the cloud. Expect more remote-first companies and decentralized protocols from here on out.

Coinbase News @CoinbaseNews

Coinbase is committed to being remote first. We announced we no longer have an HQ and as a next step, we’re closing our SF office (our former HQ) in 2022.

Chris Herd@chris_herd

Heard this from 100+ people: 1️⃣Company surveys team on how much remote work they want 2️⃣60%+ want remote 4+ days a week, 95% want 3+ days 3️⃣Company says they will allow remote 1-2 days a week 4️⃣Company SHOCKED by anger Media won’t report this! [ a thread ] 🧵

Anthemos Georgiades@anthemos

We announced our future of work policy: 🏢 6 hubs across the US 🕐 1-2 days/wk in hub's office for team mtgs & collab 🏠 3-4 days/wk focused work at home 5⃣optional 5 days/wk in office for whoever wants it

Chris Herd@chris_herd

A few remote working tips from twenty experts with 100+ years experience working remotely 👇🧵

Jon Oringer@jonoringer

Turns out cities can compete for talent also. #miamitech

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla

ATTN software engineers: Welcome to Miami. 🏖 (via @ndahlberg @NellieBowles) https://t.co/Imyo9VVHRX

Rosa Jiménez Cano@petezin

What a day, @beondeck Miami! Deep dive on scaling companies and tech ecosystems with @glen__allison and @rabois 🏝️🍍🌴#miamitech #longmiami #ondeckmiami

Nancy Dahlberg@ndahlberg

This is a huge lead in migration for Miami-Ftl metro area! 2/20-2/21 via ⁦@LinkedIn⁩ ⁦@FrancisSuarez⁩

Brian Armstrong@brian_armstrong

Going all in on remote first. Important to continue being an innovative company, that attracts top talent from everywhere, and can move quick.

Coinbase News @CoinbaseNews

Coinbase is committed to being remote first. We announced we no longer have an HQ and as a next step, we’re closing our SF office (our former HQ) in 2022.

Mayor Francis Suarez@FrancisSuarez

Miami is taking the world by storm & people are finally taking notice I am humbled by this honor from Fortune & thankful to the people of Miami who have placed their trust in me to execute my vision for a Miami that Lasts Forever Finally, Miami beat @TomBrady in something👀

Gergely Orosz@GergelyOrosz

I am hearing several senior engineers in hot fields in the EU getting +50-100% in compensation offers from US startups and tech companies... and many of their current employers matching, or partially matching them as counter-offers. My theory on what's happening (cont'd):

Rustam Aliyev@rstml

It's not only EU. In Ukraine, where I've been hiring for almost a decade, situation is similar. Covid completely erased the borders for engineering talent. Stats below are from popular Ukrainian tech job board.

Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz

I am hearing several senior engineers in hot fields in the EU getting +50-100% in compensation offers from US startups and tech companies... and many of their current employers matching, or partially matching them as counter-offers. My theory on what's happening (cont'd):

Katherine Boyle@KTmBoyle

We also believe there’s a reason why civic companies are being founded all over the country, outside of SV. It’s why we’re launching our Civic Practice in the great city of Miami! Check out our conversation with @dee_bosa and @FrancisSuarez on TechCheck.

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LIVE: TechCheck with Miami Mayor Francis Suarez and General Catalyst on new Miami office — 5/17/21

delian 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸@zebulgar

🚨🚨General Catalyst is opening a Miami Office 🚨🚨 Great to see other top-tier venture firms recognize the tech ecosystem here The question is, do you really want to be a late adopter? Isn't the whole point of being a VC to be ahead of the curve on new trends?

Katherine Boyle @KTmBoyle

We also believe there’s a reason why civic companies are being founded all over the country, outside of SV. It’s why we’re launching our Civic Practice in the great city of Miami! Check out our conversation with @dee_bosa and @FrancisSuarez on TechCheck. https://t.co/ESQOL2YTgb

Bobby Goodlatte@rsg

There’s a stretch in Wynwood here in Miami that’s about to become the new Sand Hill Road Founders Fund Atomic Maybe General Catalyst, who just announced a Miami office? Maybe Form Capital? Miami is a place where possibilities happen. 🌴🚀

Keith Rabois@rabois

Spoke to OnDeck last Monday night. Spoke again tonight to the same audience. In the interim, 7 founders had moved to Miami.

Mark Kingdon@Markis

A big thanks to @beondeck for having me moderate and to our panelists @JoMikkola of @wyncode @bunsen of @QuickNode @JaclynBaumgarte of @boatsetter and @sethcassel of @EveryMundo

Nancy Dahlberg @ndahlberg

A double headers of Miami founders tonite at @BrainStation https://t.co/sVSOutiCha

Jack Abraham@jackabraham

My Miami origin story: I came here last June on what was supposed to be a 7 day trip with friends & never left. Since then I inadvertently started a ripple effect from catching up with @rabois & dozens of other on Zoom who joined me. Now it’s a movement

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The real story of how Atomic’s Jack Abraham is turning Wynwood into the heart of Miami’s tech scene

balajis.com@balajis

Silicon Valley is no longer a metonym for technology. It is, like Redmond before it, a metonym for what technology is disrupting.

balajis.com@balajis

The new information is that tech can indeed drive change…just not in SF, CA, USA. Focus instead on the subnational, international, and technological. Subnational: Austin, Miami, Wyoming International: Estonia, Dubai, Taiwan Technological: Bitcoin, Ethereum

Christopher Calicott@mecee

BREAKING NEWS: The Texas #Bitcoin bill HB4474 Passed the Senate this morning and is on its way to @GregAbbott_TX to become law! Thank you so much @AngelaPaxtonTX & @TanParkerTX for supporting our legislation and making Texas a welcoming home for Bitcoin! #txlege @txblockchain1

Christopher Calicott @mecee

Please Retweet: The Texas Senate is down to the wire tonight—Please urge @DanPatrick to recognize @AngelaPaxtonTX to pass #HB4474 making #Texas a welcoming #Bitcoin home! #txlege #freedom https://t.co/wMwaPtgdB7

Will Weinraub@willweinraub

A lot of people don't know this, but Miami has had a huge impact on the crypto space for years now. As books get written on the story of blockchain and meaningful moments along the way, expect to see Miami mentioned in many chapters. Case in point:

Martin Varsavsky @martinvars

in this video @VitalikButerin introduces Ethereum for the first time in Miami in 2014 https://t.co/lXV9Irl2UU

Antonio García Martínez@antoniogm

Twitter isn't real. Except when a new reality gets Tweeted into existence.

CBS This Morning @CBSThisMorning

Miami's experiencing an influx of new residents in the wake of the pandemic. There's a 15% increase in tech professionals in the last year — the most in America. @MiamiMayor @FrancisSuarez told @Enrique_Acevedo he's on a mission to transform Miami into the next tech capital. 🌴 https://t.co/htBdciQ87e

Austen@Austen

I legitimately don’t even know if companies are in the Bay Area or not anymore

Lars Hamilton @lars_hamilton

@Austen Are you seeing a big valuation gap between the Bay vs Silicon Slopes deals still or is that noticeably balancing out? Lots of big exits and new VC activity in Utah recently.

Brian Breslin@brianbreslin

Zoom has anchored us now on zero travel time to attend a meeting, so the idea of driving 45 minutes to get to a meeting makes the "cost" of attending even more challenging.

Shu Nyatta@snyatta

First of all: Don't sleep on University of Miami, FIU, UF; But also: Startups used to mean almost exclusively research (biotech, semiconductors, even Google). Now startups means engineers tackling problems in every part of the economy

Roy E. Bahat ⠕ @roybahat

If you do need a world-class research university to become a world-class home for startups then... Miami?

Hiten Shah@hnshah

Startups can be built from anywhere in the world.

Henri Pierre-Jacques@hpierrejacques

Companies that are trying to force employees to live near their office are going to lose a TON of top talent over the next 5 years. The same will be true for those that lower salaries for those remote based on where they live. You are paying for SKILLS, not face time