And tech has definitely helped trash the place — the place being America.
Therefore, the necessity for reinvention, which I mentioned with Mayor Francis Xavier Suarez of Miami final month. It looks as if an eternity has handed since our dialog — but it nonetheless resonates.
I had referred to as the peppy pol due to the spate of consideration that the Florida metropolis has gotten not too long ago after a bunch of well-known Silicon Valley buyers — like Keith Rabois and Shervin Pishevar — had relocated there from the Bay Space to start anew.
Keep in mind “Miami Vice,” the TV crime drama set in Florida that was an ’80s phantasmagoria of white fits, quick speedboats and a complete lot of artisanal beard stubble? Now, many years later, think about the newest development: Miami VC.
Mr. Suarez, a younger Republican rising star, has garnered a number of consideration recently through the use of social media to market his balmy metropolis as the subsequent great spot to begin over. All of it started early in December when a longtime investor advised on Twitter that Silicon Valley ought to transfer to Miami.
“How can I assist?” Mr. Suarez replied, using a can-do, come-on-down brio that’s in stark distinction to the rising disdain cities like San Francisco have developed for tech tradition.
Mayor Suarez loves you, tech bro, he actually loves you.
He saved at it for weeks, with a sequence of pithy and adorkable feedback on Twitter, making an attempt to make the most of the wholesale re-evaluation many tech corporations are having about staying within the Bay Space, on condition that the pandemic has spurred a rethink of distant work.
In fact, Mr. Suarez is aware of that creating the subsequent Silicon Valley has been tried and has failed many occasions over the past many years — bear in mind Silicon Prairie? Silicon Desert? Silicon Seaside? Recreating that iron triangle of enterprise capitalists, a significant world-class college and tech giants is far-off for Miami, and maybe futile, too.