1/ In preview: FLORIDA is utterly + completely ABSURD.
(as every ‘Florida Man’ meme account or Carl Hiaasen novel shows).
It’s why all the eye-rolling criticism is totally justified—
—BUT misses that entrepreneurial surprise (entropy)
is nearly 100% ASSURED.
I predict...
2/ A FL-native Latinx tech-scene billionaire in the next 4 years...
The SF tech + VC scene that has moved GIVES more proximate + more frequent chance of encounters and more access to capital + fluid connections + intros—aka R&O (“randomness + optionality”)
But most importantly—
3/ All the connections in FL are fresh + NEW.
Consider this excerpt from a brilliant SFI + Princeton researcher Simon Levin.
“..Joint partnerships that are genuinely NEW”...
4/ Now mix in:
-highly COMPETITIVE people moving in from CA w/eye-rolling media/pundit/twitter haters + criticism fueling them w/ that most powerful motive force: grudges aka “I’LL SHOW THEM”
-seeing wish fresh eyes an entirely new ecosystem of industries to ask “WHAT SUCKS?”
5/
-Closer time + travel proximity to European networks of entrepreneurs + capital
-BUT i see one very big RISK that will shock many from SF...
6/ (not joking)
believe there’ll be some salacious reported FIGHTS
there are a lot of aggro miami meathead types
that i can see beating up single male vc/tech bros that come with cocky entitlement + say wrong thing or look at/hit on wrong person
not many of those types in SF
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1/ THIS was an email sent 9yrs ago—from an unknown scientist with entrepreneurial ambitions.
We didn’t reply
9yrs later we + others (including Bill Gates, Jim Simons , sovereign wealth funds + top biotech VCs)—have put over $250M in companies @ipeikon has helped start with Lux
where Columbia U’s Tom Maniatis (to my right) tipped off Lux me + @AGoulburn —
to the enormous potential of Cryo-EM as cutting edge technology for science...
-in SCIENCE via methods of conjecture + refutation
-in PRODUCTS via better, cheaper, faster, more convenient
-in INVESTORS in self-interest competing to be earlier than others, funneling funds MOST likely to be lost for slim chance of big gains
3/ Which have driven
-global communication costs to near ZERO
-processor computation + video rendering to exponentially better quality
-frictionless exchange of scientific information to model in DAYS(!) + manufacture in MONTHS(!) a vaccine
-with a system of safety + testing...
2/ Cancel monthly bills for cable + phones + internet + gym memberships + magazines + newspapers + substack subscriptions!
And cancel restaurants too––
food + fun should be free for all!
3/ Cancel car payments + cancel airline tickets––travel should be free for everyone.
Cancel music subscription services + podcasts.
Cancel Spotify + Apple.
Cancel royalties to artists.
No 1 artist should be more popular than the 99%!
Cancel ticket sales to concerts + sports.