May 16 2022

Mayor Francis Suarez and Keynote

Taxes are at 1960s lows
Lowest homelessness rate since 2013 - aiming for 0
Have hired more police officers - guess what, crime went down 🙂
- Homicide rate down 23% and then 40%
1.4% unemployment
$2T in AUM in the last 12 months
VC pipeline is robust
- 2 years they will overtake SF in VC
Sort of libertarian - let people do what they want with Minimally-Viable-Governance
Blockchain Foundation
BTC Conference - $10M investment
FTX Arena - $200M investment
Crypto is an economic development tool no matter what you think of it
Sacks’ Mayor Suarez fundraiser event was the best attended
SF Board of Supervisors have driven tech industry out
Spending is 4X Budget/capita
95% of Silicon Valley people nor born there
70% of Miami folks not born there
Francis Suarez first mayor of Miami born there
President of Mayors’ association
Cracking down on fentanyl
10-15 years ago they started a homeless trust
Reduced homelessness by 90%
Down to 510 homeless people - its down to such a low number that they know who is homeless down to each person
Continuous audit and census of homeless
Know their story and know them personally
Confident that we can change the country too with a similar attitude
- Took only 2 years in Miami
China/Russia banning bitcoin
Columbus, Ohio is building the largest chip facility in the world
CA has $100B budget surplus
- Solar
- Student debt
- They will waste it 🙂
- Government has it wrong!
Suarez is still a lawyer