I was born in a suburb of Detroit and been living as an a adult in Miami full time since '95. My wife and I put our roots down in Miami bc of the feeling of community. And that's the word that comes to mind with what I'm seeing happen with #miamitech It's a community. Cont.

I've spent more time on Twitter in the last 3 weeks that what feels like the entire 2020. The tweet heard round the world, "How can I help?" by Miami Mayor @FrancisSuarez was the catalyst of a movement that had momentum long before the #techodus

The news of @davidblumberg and @rabois moving to Miami made waves. @harryhurst and @pipe, then @alexisohanian launches @sevensevensix , and we start finding out what good sleep is like with @eightsleep and @m_franceschetti and b4 you know it, I find myself

Tweeting with @dvdzinn @davidrgoldberg and begin to engage with @SoftBank @marceloclaure. The mayor of Miami Dade County said tonight, "What's a Miami native? Living here for 6 months?" And she's right. Experience one hurricane and you'll see what a real community is like

Miami has the feel of a small town but the landscape of a vacation city. Jumping from strategic advisor to a startup that was working on disrupting #HigherEd before COVID was even a word, to going all in as Head of Growth was a selfish decision.

My 17 yr old in 11th grade is the child most like me. ADD but much more creative and has a heart of gold with dreams of going to @UCF for engineering and work for @WaltDisneyWorld as an imagineer. When covid forced universities to pivot to online classes I saw for myself how

unprepared they were by sitting in on my oldest Chemistry II online course and I was shocked and full of fear that is things going change my youngest will never reach his real potential. So I went all in to play disruptor in an industry already being disrupted with @ElevateUai

Founded in Tempe,AZ blocks from ASU our pre-seed round was cut short after raising 225k as our advisors told us based on the traction we had in 60 days and COVID creating an even greater demand, we needed to jump to our seed round. With me in #Miami and CEO in AZ we been our

Meetings the last week of 2020 and continued this week gathering everyone around the table.

Then the #MiamiTech Manifesto was published. We aren't the "Next Silicon Valley", were the first Miami. With momentum building for our paid launch this month for the spring semester

I was having conversations in DMs that carried into emails and then the Miami Virtual Town Hall had us thinking of opening our new office in Miami instead of AZ. I like to think of a potential movement #FromMiamiForMiami giving jobs & opportunities to the local talent instead

of talent wanting to come to Florida for the open positions. As we continue our scheduled meetings with VCs and Angels Miami had two legs...bc #miamitech is a community.