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What's 🔥 in Enterprise IT/VC #27425 Years in NYC Enterprise Tech and why I moved to Miami 🌴 - 🔥 up to build 🏗️
Hi all, it’s been an emotional week as I finally moved to Miami and am starting to get settled in. Having been an early advocate of the NYC tech ecosystem since 1996, this was quite a move for me and my family. That being said, I’m more energized 🔌 than ever before and excited for the future. I’ll share some of my thoughts on the early days of NYC, and why I believe Miami will accelerate as a hub for founders/investors. See 🧵… GM #Miami! After a 25yr run in NYC enterprise tech, thrilled to move to Miami 🌴 to help build a community around developer first, SaaS + crypto infra founders. ❤️ the energy🔌 + people, reminds me of NYC in early 2000s. Time to build + invest!
@FrancisSuarez - let's meet! 🧵 After sifting through a lot of “holy shits” and “what are you doing” and “you’re the only infrastructure investor down there”, I’m now finally able to gather my thoughts. I’ll start off with personal reasons. My wife and I have always loved the warmer weather 🌴 and now that both of our kids are in college, this is a great place to be due to proximity to NYC where we still have lots of friends. Investment wise, I’m ready for a new adventure. I’ve always enjoyed being an underdog since my early days in NYC in 1996 when folks used to laugh and say that we couldn’t build billion dollar enterprise companies in NYC, that it was too expensive to live in, and that all of the capital was flowing out of NYC and not to NYC. Fast forward 25+ years later and we can all agree that NYC is solidly #2 behind Silicon Valley just like we had all envisioned. Ok…maybe it took a lot longer than expected 🤣. Being in Miami gives me that same underdog feeling, especially when it comes to enterprise startups, and it’s a feeling that I relish and 🔥 me up. In the venture world, timing is everything and when Forbes has headline articles like below, the contrarian in me says it’s time to go. Once upon a time, my dream was to have Tier 1 Silicon Valley VC funds lead A rounds in some of our portfolio companies in NYC to help legitimize the idea that hard core infrastructure startups can be built in NYC…and now that dream has become a reality and in spades as there are way too many VCs 😄 now. NYC is far from contrarian! Finally, while I built my VC career out of NYC starting in 1996 and boldstart was started here in 2010, many don’t know that 2/3 of our investments, yes 2/3, are in Europe and Israel. We’ve always been investing internationally since we started boldstart and many of our biggest winners thus far like Snyk (London and Israel, dev first security, $8.6B), Blockdaemon (fully distributed with tech in Ireland, Germany, CA, crypto infra $3.25B, and BigID (Israel, NYC, Miami where CEO is located, data privacy, $1.25B) and many others were never in NYC. So will it take 25 years for Miami to be the next big tech hub? The world is so different today than when I started in NYC in 1996. For context, here’s an Infoworld article I was quoted in from August 1999. 1/ cleaning out my desk
before SaaS, we had the ASP (application service provider) market, found this from August 1999 where I'm quoted in @InfoWorld talking @LivePerson
Can’t believe how far we’ve come, yet in many ways things didn’t change much, just got WAY MORE EFFICIENT SaaS wasn’t even SaaS as it was called the ASP model. LivePerson where I led the founding round ended up being one of the early enterprise cos which IPOed from NYC in 2001 and is still a public company worth around $2B (more here). What’s different today vs. before comes down to the 5 cs - capital, cloud, connectivity, community, and crypto. I believe in 5 years Miami will be a top 3 hub in terms of $ invested into startups as more founders and investors come to visit and never leave.
I’ll share more as I experience the city and people but all I can say is I feel like it’s Day One all over again. I’m excited to discover, learn, meet, and help build a community around developer first startups, enterprise infra, and crypto infrastructure. A number of boldstart founders like Dimitri Sirota from BigID (data privacy and infra space) and Sam Kassoumeh from Security Scorecard are already down here, and I know a number of others about to make the move. Alex Taub, founder of crypto infra company, Upstream (a low code DAO in a box) is already here, and we @boldstartvc are ready to write checks. My partner Eliot Durbin is also here with me so please ping him as well. I look forward to waking up every day, learning from all of you, and also sharing some of the lessons that we learned partnering with founders from Day 1 who started companies like Snyk, Blockdaemon, BigID, Superhuman, Kustomer and many others. NYC - I ❤️ you and miss you already, but I’m ready for a new adventure! Please reach out if you want to meet or discuss any of the above. Let’s 🏗️ build! As always, 🙏🏼 for reading and please share with your friends and colleagues. Scaling Startups
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