Ariel Deschapell (b/acc)

Entire Hydra team is excited to support El Salvador in its Sovereign compute initiative! Bitcoin + AI Accelerators is the new playbook.

openclaw is very clearly linkedin energy hermes is twitter

Team continues to kill it in the AI Factory business

@coinward @itsLIRAN Crisp is right. Great for a sunny day.

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Typical 5 minute walk break in Miami is undefeated

It's funny seeing the triggering and knee jerk reactions on both sides to this post. As one of the very few founders in Miami of a meaningfully sized company, that is actually a Miami native, it's pretty much on the mark. Given how bad the governance is in SF and NYC, I think Miami continues to have the opportunity to be a true alternative for both tech and finance. But other places sucking more isn't good enough. It has its own real problems to solve. Fraud and sleazy atmosphere: I see people mention this one a lot, and there's a big grain of truth there. There's a huge hustle culture and a ton of poseurs. But you know what? SF has that too in droves. I'd go as far to say the ratio of people working on real things vs BS is not actually that far off, in SF the BS is just more *plausible* sounding and people get away with fraud for a lot longer. See Delve. In Miami it's just obvious, and therefore more annoying. It makes events annoying for actual builders, and is something that can only be solved with curation imo. Too much fun: This is the dumbest one I just want to dispel. There's so much to do in Miami, that it makes it impossible for a serious work culture to develop to get people to grind long hours. My wife would like to have a word. In reality, there's *way* more to do in NYC than Miami, and that's not a problem there. It's not a problem here either, unless you're the wrong person and you need perfect conditions to be successful i.e. you are not going to be successful. Engineering talent is lacking: Very very true, it's lagging behind VC growth substantially, but that's changing. Miami today is not anything like it was pre-covid. It's a different planet really, and the talent is gradually growing and stacking. It's also pretty easy to recruit folks early in their career here. There also should be a lot more investment in investing in the local population from the local universities IMO. We need a real local pipeline that does not yet exist. Affordability: It's so much better than NYC and SF. The quality of life is pretty superb. Yeah, the 3 months of hardcore summer is pretty brutal, but so is being locked inside in the dark freezing cold in NYC winters. Personally I prefer the one that doesn't give me seasonal depression. All that being said, Miami has its own growing affordability problem. We are building way more than I think almost any metro in America, but it's not enough. Insurance is also out of control and needs State level interventions. That's compounded by under-invested infrastructure for flooding, sewer systems, etc. Solar for residential needs to be aggressively promoted and incentivized to lower electricity bills and increase grid resilience. All of this is very doable but requires a level of political will and organization and I haven't ever seen demonstrated here. Overall, I'm bullish, and looking forward to giving back more and trying to help going forward.

Traditionally it’s been a density issue. There’s a solid, top heavy cluster of talent and VCs. There’s also a ton of people who want to break in, and a lot of grifters. So events get flooded with the latter and it gets exhausting. Talent retreats from them and they downward spiral. I think more curation is needed to filter the grifters out, and yeah more on ramps. That may or may not be happening now with the local Claude code meetups, open claw events, etc.

@NotASithLord @raechellambert One analysis I read -- I can't remember where -- said the issue is largely lack of on-ramps for people joining the ecosystem. Do you think there's something to that? I've seen that in other cities.

Husband and I tried Miami for 1 year after living in SF and NYC tech scenes. Very top heavy - mostly successful founders and VCs who go to live in their nice houses and aren’t out there being part of the community Tons of larping founders - I got invited to some “female founder dinners” and every single woman showed up dressed for a kardashian wedding and had obviously spent all their time in the salon, not building a startup The grifting is real - we won Miami Hack Week in 2023. The $10k prize money did not exist and it took 6 months to even get a hold of the organizer. He never paid. When the next Miami hack week came around, I tried telling 3 people in the community. Organizer told them I was a liar and that I had been paid. This bullshit would never happen in SF or NYC. Miami hack week seems to have a new organizer now so I’m hopeful it’s being better managed.

@mil0theminer x.com/sfchronicle/st…

@NotASithLord Triggered much ?

Miami tech won’t ever happen because the underlying culture isn’t in good faith, Miami literally has the highest Medicare fraud rate per capita, fraud is just in the air in Miami, good things can’t be built in that environment.

@thdxr Happy to co-host some events with you. Established engineers and founders only. Build the nucleus.

@volvoshine Really need one of these billionaires to step in, fund a full restoration of the house as a museum, and the rest of the outside can be a nice cafe area.

What would you do at the Fort Dallas site in Downtown Miami

“A general’s most important talent is to know the mind of the soldier and gain his confidence… He is not a machine that must be made to move, he is a reasonable being who needs leadership” Napoleon

@AbudBakri @AJA_Cortes @Patterdude @GavinNewsom @RonDeSantis should do something similar in Florida. Unlock innovation.

This bill by @Patterdude would make California the Mecca for Peptides Would create a safe path for peptide administration given the FDA approval path likely won’t happen Let’s see if they ruin this for us or usher in a golden age This is your chance @GavinNewsom

@BryanOnel86 I have some ideas. DM and let’s chat Monday/Tuesday.

@NotASithLord Absolutely. Let’s schedule a call and figure something out. You available sometime tomorrow?

This weekend only, for affected Delve customers, we are offering the complete Oneleet SOC 2 program for just $6k, down from $14. It has everything you need to become compliant and secure: platform access, penetration test, (legit, lol) third-party auditor, and access to all of our security tooling, all-inclusive for $6,000, discounted from $14,000. We won't offer it for free like some others do, but those only get you platform access. With Oneleet, you'll get the full bundle of things you'd have to get elsewhere with other platforms. But more importantly, you will come out more secure, and with the ability to confidently show your report, pentest and security posture to your partners without fear. (we make a significant loss in the first year on this deal, but the CAC is still better than ads, so that's why/how we can afford to do this) We have some wiggle room for certain situations btw, poke me if you're interested.

There will be a generational build out of AI Factories in the Gulf once the war ends.

@Austen Amazing

Thinking of this exchange today

Another win for Miami

@ELoosbrock @bunsen @curt_lary @gabednconfused @griffingineer @Ourosenergy

@NotASithLord @bunsen @curt_lary @gabednconfused @griffingineer @Ourosenergy Compute*

Who is building the craziest stuff in Miami?

@ELoosbrock @bunsen @curt_lary @gabednconfused @griffingineer @Ourosenergy I am but humbly commoditizing compute

@NotASithLord @bunsen @curt_lary @gabednconfused @griffingineer @Ourosenergy Fuck I missed Ariel @bunsen my b bro