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@nicberardi This ☝🏽

Ironic that the people that preach about the benefits of social media breaks/fasts are the people that make social media toxic.

@howard This ☝🏽 Says everything you need to know that @elonmusk @travisk Jensen and the literal biggest movers in the world of tech have chosen to stay on the founder side building as opposed to obsessing over Decks & DPI.

Something I keep noticing. Every serious builder I know right now, and I mean the ones who already won, already exited, already don’t need to do this, they’re not sleeping. Not from stress. From side quests. Claude Code at midnight. OpenClaw tinkering. Replit experiments that were supposed to take an hour. A million tabs open, one wild idea bleeding into the next. Some of them are even random posting on X asking for recs of who are the most cracked engineers people know…like a tennis junkie looking for the best tennis pro. And when you ask them why: They don’t say “I’m building the next thing” or “I see a market opportunity.” They say something like: “I don’t really know where it’s going. I just need to understand the journey.” That line keeps sticking with me. Because Jensen Huang just said the agentic layer is the new computer. And the people with Major Ws are already living inside it, not because they have to. Because they can feel something shifting. So… What are you actually working on right now? 👇🏽 Reply if you know someone in the post-trophy crowd who’s building harder than ever.

@burhansebin Congrats brother.

My wifey matched into residency 😍 #feelingproud

GM! The cool thing about what’s happened and happening in the Miami innovation ecosystem is the broad range of founders/investors/operators from different vintages. From the folks grinding in the early 80s to those who just landed recently. 🏷️ Tag some names below 👇🏽

@MrBeast @MrBeast — so are you going to be hosting the #Oscars next year?

Feastables x Super Mario Galaxy Movie The Yoshi eggs are 🔥

@rubenharris ☝🏽

Talking to people about AI right now feels like Noah telling people it was gonna rain after he built the Ark

Don’t let the headlines about Lambos, crypto, and Club Eleven dominate your thinking about Miami. This week, I helped pull together a lunch of powerhouse women founders, investors, operators, CEOs, and ecosystem builders here in Miami alongside leaders of a new Brazilian startup coming to Miami. Multiple exited founders A CEO of a publicly traded company Several top performing VC’s A 7 times Forbes Midas VC Family Office leaders Early stage builders The energy in that room was unreal. Every seat at the table was someone helping lead this city to new heights. Miami’s next chapter is being written in rooms like this.

Stopped by to see @rubenharris @timurmeyster and the @outrivalAI crew today in Miami. YC alums. Backed by @initcapital, @garrytan, and some of the best in the business. Agentic voice AI. Massive verticals. World-class engineering team. Everyone locked in. No fluff. No flexing. Just a warehouse full of engineers building agents with agents on a rainy Miami day. 18 months ago this team was working out of a windowless one-room space. This city keeps shipping.

We’ve raised $400M at a $9B valuation. Investors include Georgian, G Squared, Prysm, 1789, YC, Coatue, a16z, Craft, and QIA, with strategic investments from Accenture, Databricks, Okta, and Tether. We’re also lucky to have incredible individuals backing us, including Shaq and Jared Leto. This funding will help us scale our ambition and expand beyond coding into AI systems that center human creativity. Replit is now used at 85% of the Fortune 500. We have an opportunity to help shape the future of work. One where AI abstracts away the boring parts and humans shine as creative directors. We’re also investing more globally, particularly in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. Innovation can come from anywhere in the world, and we want to help unlock it.

@pitdesi Sheel: Still early days down here. I know you’ve posted about visiting Miami previously. Let’s get you down here again to see what the early stage momentum here looks like.

I thought "lemme see what the data says" but it was much harder than I expected because Miami has actually fallen off the chart...

100 years ago, Miami was rubble. September 1926. A Category 4 hurricane. 150 mph winds. 11-foot storm surge. 372 dead. 6,000 injured. $164 billion in damage in today’s dollars. The city was 30 years old. Dade County had just crossed 100,000 people almost all of it driven by a speculative land boom that was already collapsing. The economy ran on seasonal tourism and real estate flipping. A single ship, the Prinz Valdemar ran aground in the harbor and blocked all commerce for a month. The railroads embargoed everything except food. No highways connecting Miami to the rest of America. No airport. The University of Miami was just opening its doors. The hurricane ended it all. Miami entered the Depression three years before the rest of the country. That was the foundation. Now consider what stands on it. Miami-Dade County: nearly 3 million people. Most populous county in Florida. 7th in America. County GDP: $184.5 billion — largest in the state, 14th in the nation. •Third largest skyline in America. •$3.5–$4B in venture capital raised across the metro in 2025. Best year since pandemic-era records. •From 100,000 people to nearly 3 million. •From a blocked harbor to a gateway connecting the Americas. I’ve spent my entire life building in this ecosystem. And the thing I keep coming back to is this: Miami has been leveled and challenged before. More than once. By hurricanes. By speculation. By the Depression. By drugs. By the subprime crisis. Every time, the same verdict: “It’s over. It was never real.” Every time, the builders rebuilt. Not because Miami is invincible. Because the people who choose this place are built for adversity. The challenges are real. Affordability. Climate risk. Talent retention. Insurance costs. We see them with clear eyes as points of existential urgency. But the 2026–2030 South Florida Economic Supercycle isn’t a theory. It’s the latest chapter in a hundred-year story of people who build through disruption, who take what the storm left and make something the world can’t ignore. Spectators debate sustainability. Operators manufacture inevitability. One hundred+ years young. And we’re just getting started.

@karlsprague @melmedina305 @VanderbiltU @ServiceNow @FloridaAtlantic Appreciate you so much @karlsprague!

@saif305 @melmedina305 @VanderbiltU @ServiceNow @FloridaAtlantic I’m guessing the real reason is that they see the value of proximity to the @saif305 orbit and recognize that its 😴😴is life- changing for entrepreneurs and tech companies with big ambitions. 😎

If you still think Miami is hype, read this. Q1 isn’t even over. $25B walking out of legacy states (Page/Zuck/Brin/Ellison) $520M new campus @VanderbiltU $300B+ HQ move to Miami 856 high-salary tech jobs @ServiceNow Quantum infrastructure @FloridaAtlantic $1B airport expansion @iflymia 20,000+ inbound for @eMergeAmericas Startup density beating hubs twice our age 100s of gatherings of builders/founders Not just vibes. It’s infrastructure. Capital formation. Talent concentration. Global connectivity. A corridor accelerating in real time: West Palm → Fort Lauderdale → Miami While spectators debate narratives, operators are building outcomes. So I’ll ask the only question that matters: What/When are you building here?

@NotionCoach It’s go time.

This is all great, but the number one metric I'm interested in is # of startups getting to profitability. Capital is a needed first step. Now, it's time to build. 🏗️

@moreyraortho @VanderbiltU @ServiceNow @FloridaAtlantic @MiamiDadeCounty @FIU @iflymia Agreed that Transit has to scale.

@saif305 @VanderbiltU @ServiceNow @FloridaAtlantic @MiamiDadeCounty still needs to bring the Metrorail to @FIU and connect it to @iflymia. FIU is the university in Miami with the largest enrollment.

@gonzalezloumiet @VanderbiltU @ServiceNow @FloridaAtlantic @TalChamber @WellConnector @LaunchTally @ThisIsRuvos @TalTech Let me know when your next meet up is - or how I can support?!!

@saif305 @VanderbiltU @ServiceNow @FloridaAtlantic Great summary. Remarkable what is happening in Miami. We have a strong group working on our tech ecosystem in Tallahassee. Big things coming soon in our region. @TalChamber @WellConnector @LaunchTally @ThisIsRuvos @TalTech

@drgurner @VanderbiltU @ServiceNow @FloridaAtlantic *in not on

@saif305 @VanderbiltU @ServiceNow @FloridaAtlantic I see a lot of "heads" but not as many tech companies. I suspect it would be hard to get them to leave the Valley.

@drgurner @VanderbiltU @ServiceNow @FloridaAtlantic Still in the first few innings. The escape velocity comes as some of our early to mid-stage companies on market start to experience exits. 🔁

@DavidMarkoMiami @VanderbiltU @ServiceNow @FloridaAtlantic All crucial areas to address, if we are to achieve escape velocity as a region.

@saif305 @VanderbiltU @ServiceNow @FloridaAtlantic The enormous gaps are (a) public transportation (it does not exist and it’s not clear now how it even could), (b) public education system (what middle management and their employees will rely on) is underfunded, and (c) affordable home ownership near financial centers.

@miamimanmemedia Bro….only the real ones

Real Miamians know. 😉