Welcome to the (super duper late) June 2021 edition of "collage art storytelling with tweets." about the technology industryโs reshuffling around the United States and the world post pandemic.
This episode chronicles the events of May 2021.
This guide in general will skew towards Miami (where I live currently) but also include Austin and Atlanta (where I also have lived and have knowledge of) among others.
For the previous episode checkout outย 5-2021 Tech Diaspora Acceleration
Lead Tweet
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.
5-2-2021
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
miamitechweek.com
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 ๐
delian ๐บ๐ธ๐บ๐ธ๐บ๐ธ @zebulgar
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:
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
5-3-2021
๐จ๐ BREAKING NEWS: #eMergeAmericas 2022 is moving to #MiamiTech Week! Registration is now open! The Miami community, all who have tirelessly worked on this mission for years + the new transplants are joining forces for an epic Miami Tech Week 2022 ๐ฅ
bit.ly/3gWq5yY
Atlanta : โa breeding ground for billion dollar companiesโ via โฆโฆ@TechCrunchโฉ โฆ@jshieberโฉ . 20+ years in the making, decades of progress left ahead. Shout out to the entire Atlanta community. ๐ช๐พ๐ techcrunch.com/2021/05/02/howโฆ
Atlassian just set the bar which other tech companies must meet or exceed regarding remote work
A single decision that sets them up for success for the next decade and beyond + guarantees theyโll attract and retain great talent
Congrats @scottfarkas ๐
smh.com.au/business/smallโฆ
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.
"@NomadList and teleport are search engines for individual digital nomads. What does a tool for collective migration look like?"
fascinating question from @balajis
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.
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
5-5-2021
Bill Gates believes 100M+ workers will work remotely after Covid
A few things companies must get right to succeed
[ a thread ] ๐ป๐ ๐
Check it! We created a Head of Remote forum ๐๐
We pioneered this role at @gitlab and want others assuming dedicated remote leadership roles to share playbooks and challenges so we all get better.
Want to become a Head of Remote? Learn here ๐๐
forum.gitlab.com/c/head-of-remoโฆ
Coinbase is committed to being remote first. We announced we no longer have an HQ and as a next step, weโre closing our SF office (our former HQ) in 2022.
I knew Google would back off of their demand for all employees to return full time to the office. Just didnโt know it would happen so fast.
Sundar Pichai @sundarpichai
...spending time in another city for part of the year, or even moving there permanently. Googleโs future workplace will have room for all of these possibilities. Weโre moving to a hybrid work week with most Googlers in the office approximately 3 days a week.
Iโm 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. Hereโs the note I sent to Googlers.
If Google โ arguably the provider of the best office working experience on the planet โ 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?
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.
The next Silicon Valley is in the cloud. Expect more remote-first companies and decentralized protocols from here on out.
Coinbase News @CoinbaseNews
5-7-2021
Heard this from 100+ people:
1๏ธโฃCompany surveys team on how much remote work they want
2๏ธโฃ60%+ want remote 4+ days a week, 95% want 3+ days
3๏ธโฃCompany says they will allow remote 1-2 days a week
4๏ธโฃCompany SHOCKED by anger
Media wonโt report this!
[ a thread ] ๐งต
We announced our future of work policy:
๐ข 6 hubs across the US
๐ 1-2 days/wk in hub's office for team mtgs & collab
๐ 3-4 days/wk focused work at home
5โฃoptional 5 days/wk in office for whoever wants it
5-8-2021
Turns out cities can compete for talent also. #miamitech
Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla
What a day, @beondeck Miami!
Deep dive on scaling companies and tech ecosystems with @glen__allison and @rabois
๐๏ธ๐๐ด#miamitech #longmiami #ondeckmiami
5-10-2021
This is a huge lead in migration for Miami-Ftl metro area! 2/20-2/21 via โฆ@LinkedInโฉ โฆ@FrancisSuarezโฉ
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
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 something๐
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):
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
5-17-2021
We also believe thereโs a reason why civic companies are being founded all over the country, outside of SV. Itโs why weโre launching our Civic Practice in the great city of Miami! Check out our conversation with @dee_bosa and @FrancisSuarez on TechCheck.
๐จ๐จGeneral Catalyst is opening a Miami Office ๐จ๐จ
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
Thereโs a stretch in Wynwood here in Miami thatโs 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. ๐ด๐
Spoke to OnDeck last Monday night. Spoke again tonight to the same audience. In the interim, 7 founders had moved to Miami.
5-19-2021
San Francisco politics (unsafe streets, war against merit/advanced math in schools, anti-housing NIMBYism) is resulting in the strangling of the golden goose
The source of social mobility, the once envy of the world is going away
Tech is leaving SF
sfciti.org/sf-tech-exodus/
5-21-2021
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
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 itโs a movement
5-23-2021
As Miamians go back to work, new โdigital nomadsโ are changing the cityโs economy. Super interesting, by @rjwile miamiherald.com/news/business/โฆ
5-24-2021
โOur Miamiโs pursuit of becoming what I call โthe capital of capitalโ is about not just financial capital but also our rich ecosystem of human, social and cultural capital.โ
miamiherald.com/news/business/โฆ
โก๏ธ Episode 20 w/ guest @zebulgar is live!
- Delian's background
- What he's up to at @vardaspace
- His thoughts leading up to the moment he sent "the tweet"
- His perspective on #MiamiTech
- & more!
๐: bit.ly/3bPv1lW
๐บ: bit.ly/3hSIIV4
How I became Florida Man.
Bittersweet to work with @jeffbercovici @latimes โ the newspaper I read daily as a child โ to share why I left Cali for Miami.
Excited to build the future here๐โ๏ธ๐
cc: @FrancisSuarez @rabois @shervin @zebulgar @APompliano
latimes.com/business/technโฆ
5-26-2021
Silicon Valley is no longer a metonym
for technology. It is, like Redmond before it, a metonym for what technology is disrupting.
The new information is that tech can indeed drive changeโฆjust not in SF, CA, USA.
Focus instead on the subnational, international, and technological.
Subnational: Austin, Miami, Wyoming
International: Estonia, Dubai, Taiwan
Technological: Bitcoin, Ethereum
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
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
Twitter isn't real.
Except when a new reality gets Tweeted into existence.
CBS This Morning @CBSThisMorning
I legitimately donโt even know if companies are in the Bay Area or not anymore
Lars Hamilton @lars_hamilton
5-28-2021
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.
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 โ @roybahat
5-30-2021
5-31-2021