Welcome to the (super duper late) June 2021 edition of "collage art storytelling with tweets." about the technology industry’s 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 out 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 🌍
delian 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 @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
🚨🎉 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 💥
bit.ly/3gWq5yY
Atlanta : “a breeding ground for billion dollar companies” via @TechCrunch @jshieber . 20+ years in the making, decades of progress left ahead. Shout out to the entire Atlanta community. 💪🏾🚀 techcrunch.com/2021/05/02/how…
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 they’ll attract and retain great talent
Congrats @scottfarkas 🙌
smh.com.au/business/small…
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 ] 💻🏠🌏
Check it! We created a Head of Remote forum 🌎🚀
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 🎓👇
forum.gitlab.com/c/head-of-remo…
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.
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
...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.
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.
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?
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:
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 ] 🧵
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
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
🏝️🍍🌴#miamitech #longmiami #ondeckmiami
5-10-2021
This is a huge lead in migration for Miami-Ftl metro area! 2/20-2/21 via @LinkedIn @FrancisSuarez
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 something👀
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 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.
🚨🚨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
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. 🌴🚀
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 it’s a movement
5-23-2021
As Miamians go back to work, new ‘digital nomads’ are changing the city’s economy. Super interesting, by @rjwile miamiherald.com/news/business/…
5-24-2021
“Our Miami’s pursuit of becoming what I call ‘the capital of capital’ is about not just financial capital but also our rich ecosystem of human, social and cultural capital.”
miamiherald.com/news/business/…
⚡️ 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!
🔊: bit.ly/3bPv1lW
📺: bit.ly/3hSIIV4
How I became Florida Man.
Bittersweet to work with @jeffbercovici @latimes — the newspaper I read daily as a child — to share why I left Cali for Miami.
Excited to build the future here🚀☀️🏝
cc: @FrancisSuarez @rabois @shervin @zebulgar @APompliano
latimes.com/business/techn…
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 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
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 don’t 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 ⠕ @roybahat
5-30-2021
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