🔮 Pioneer in emerging tech for 25+ years, from Ethereum to Alienware. Crafting tomorrow at @PurpleHorizons8. Dive in, innovate, and elevate with us.
Miami, Florida USA
Joined February 2008
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Last night we built a Miami fighting game in about 4 hours.
A Cuban grandma with a flying chancleta vs a Wynwood spray-can fighter, on Calle Ocho.
208 AI generations for $18.80.
#miamitech @purplehorizons8 @RalphQuintero
Thanks to Carlos Ribero and @communitypapers for having me on An Eye for AI.
My one takeaway: the first step has nothing to do with AI. It's knowing your processes.
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The only people who will advance something like ‘Miami is the new Austin’ are NYC commercial RE larpers.
Miami is Miami and more importantly we are part of a G20 economy called Florida.
That being said, we need innovation to thrive in every corner of America. 🇺🇸 💪🏽
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Our event is fully subscribed for tonight’s Google DeepMind AI Build Night in Miami.
500 builders. One room. Lots of building.
Miami tech is alive and well.
See you at @thelabmiami
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Thanks to everyone who came out this past week! Our next South Miami Tech Tuesday marks the start of a new annual tradition in December! #miamitech @RalphQuintero @GianniDalerta
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Tech Tuesday was buzzing last night! Thanks to everyone who came out and joined us. Amazing conversations were had, incredible connections were made, and together we’re shaping Miami’s tech and startup ecosystem.
@GianniDalerta and I are grateful for all of you! 🙏🏼
Hope to see you all again next month!
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I've launched multiple YouTube channels that petered out.
4 reasons this one worked:
1. I stopped being embarrassed about numbers.
PREVIOUSLY:
a. I'd publish
b. See my first videos get 100s of views
d. be embarrassed because people like @lennysan and @noahkagan got 100s of thousands
d. stop posting
THIS TIME:
I started focusing on publishing daily. How often I publish became more important than how many views I got.
I trusted that I'd improve with experience, and the numbers would follow.
So:
a. I have over 70k subs already
b. multiple videos got 100s of thousands of views
c. I'm happier
2. @wadefoster of @zapier gave me a mission
He sponsored a full year of my videos. The goal he gave me was NOT to get viewers to download or pay for something.
He recognized that building with AI was going to be huge.
He told me to create videos that help people build more/better. He trusted that if more people build automations/software/etc, it would be good for Zapier and the world.
3. I rode a growing wave
Only 15% of workers use AI daily, but that number is growing fast.
# An owner of a concrete company told me he hates tech, but loves building with Claude Code
# A YouTuber told me he has stacks of Mac Studios that run software he gets off GitHub.
# A caterer showed me a Zap that takes his meeting notes from his Plaud device and turns them into client follow-ups.
4. X
@ Video views on X are blah.
@ People from X don't click to YouTube.
@ I prob make more from YouTube ad sense in a week than superstars like @levelsio make in a year on X.
BUT X is where the smart people are.
# @Bencera went viral with a 0-person company, so I jumped to interview him and got huge views.
# @pbteja1998 got millions of views for creating the first multi-agent company using ClawdBot (remember that?). I interviewed him and got my first viral video!
# @hot_town demoed Buzz when it launched and went viral on X, so I messaged him over and over until he did an interview. Again, it took off.
I remember a time when I didn’t believe in laptops, before syncing and powerful hardware. Now, my desktop, which is more of a home server, lab, and gaming computer, is used for other purposes.
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founder friends, who are the best founder speakers I should know about?
asking for the @FloridaFunders Venture Summit 🙃 DMs open
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The @BrookingsInst just put Miami in the same AI-readiness tier as Boston, Seattle and Austin.
One of America’s 28 “Star Hubs,” with strength across talent, innovation and business adoption.
Read that again — A Star AI Hub ranking for Miami from a leading think tank.
That’s a hell of an “overnight success.”
@rabovitz has been building through entire technology cycles: MAKO, Magic Leap, now SynthBee. @dancane and Dr. Michael Sherling have spent years bringing technology into the doctor’s office through @modmed.
@melmedina305 has built @eMergeAmericas into a gathering place for this ambition. @brianbreslin started @refreshmiami back in 2006 and @FrancisSuarez provided a clarion call and intentionality around that acceleration.
We’ve seen the blend of newish to market leaders like @rubenharris & @timurmeyster @SheetalJaitly build here @bunsen and many many more and homegrown talent like @MattVanzz build Gail here. investors like @pablo_casilimas Justis @davidrgoldberg @CharmelMaynard Laura Maydoninvest and back bold builders and @burhansebin @TJVillamil @ayalstern @GianniDalerta @RalphQuintero and others get behind folks early. Even @davidsenra calls Miami home!!
People planted trees here long before anyone was arguing about who deserved the shade.
Brookings’ report recognizes something worth building on. Being in that tier should change what we expect of ourselves. I know @Richard_Florida would agree!!
If you run a major company here, give a local team a shot at solving a real problem. Put a budget behind it.
Get our FIU, UM, FAU, MDC and soon to be CMU students close to these builders.
Paid work.
Real projects. A chance to discover they belong in this.
And those of us who know the customer, the investor or the person who can unblock something: make the introduction. Then follow up.
That’s how a promising region becomes a place where great companies keep getting built.
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75+ Miami startups. ~$180M raised. Yours could be next...
@GianniDalerta and I are teaming up with Northeastern University Miami and @lab22c on the Miami Innovation Academy
It's a five-week fellowship for 15 to 20 seed-stage founders, and it ends with a Demo Day in front of investors
Some alums include @ExowattEnergy @bemehealthcare @WisecutAI @lamatic_ai and many others. Great company to be among if you ask me!
Applications close Friday, Nov 13 - APPLY TODAY 👇
miami.northeastern.edu/entre…
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98.52% accuracy. 15 meters outdoors. And the sensing method is not radar.
Miami-based @FIU engineers are detecting drones by listening for something every electric motor gives off, a low-frequency magnetic signature that can differentiate drone models.
The part to watch is what “stealthier and drastically cheaper” detection could unlock for real-world deployments.
refreshmiami.com/news/fiu-en…
#RefreshMiami #MiamiTech
ALT FIU Built A Stealthy Way To Spot Drones, Without Radar
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”an artist with zero skills” aka @antrofrog_ emerged in the last 40 days across socials, this video alone has now done somewhere around 200M views in 36h across platforms.
created by Antrogfrog using @midjourney and @krea_ai it is an absolute masterpiece in storytelling for short form.
Each clip has a hook, and build suspense and release, stacking on each other while all of them stay true to the premise.
a british gentleman in New York. each clip is perfect in length, music most likely drove the story, and the entire short ends with a morale. No need for gentlemen to stand in lines. You don’t need to be an asshole to skip lines, just do good. be good.
This is also not a one hit wonder on a specific platform, this video goes viral anywhere it’s posted, by antrofrog or people just downloading and re-uploading.
Within 5 hours he posted 2 separate videos on Instagram using this character and the second video sits at 62M views and counting.
this shows that while barrier to entry is lower than ever, true skills in storytelling and delivery still is the biggest moat. we might call it taste, because it sure ain’t luck.
A secondary outcome is that on Instagram Antrofrog now has 325k followers and the basics to continue to do what ever art they fancy doing.
what are you waiting for? in Antros own words:
— Just use AI
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One start frame from Midjourney v8.2, one simple prompt, 6 video models.
I kept the prompt simple on purpose. Lens, lighting and creature design were left open so each model had to fill the gaps itself. That shows how well they hold the reference and how well they understand a prompt.
For models with thinking/reasoning, I set it to high. The only edits to the video are the model name labels and straight cuts. I matched the audio levels too, because the loudest model always feels better by default.
Note: Gemini gave 10 sec, the others 15 sec.
Order: H3 Max, FLUX 3 Max, Gemini Omni Flash v1.1, Seedance 2.5, Kling v4, Wan 3.0.
Which one is your favorite?
great takeaways
Thorsten Ball's best AI advice: be unreasonable.
You're not working with humans anymore. Things that would be unreasonable, over the top or downright rude to ask a person, you can ask AI for now.
His examples:
- "Test this end to end. Again."
- "Give me irrefutable proof this works."
- "Give me 10 variations of this UI." Ten.
- "Show me how they'd fix this at Apple, at Google, at Teenage Engineering."
- "Find the race condition. 8 times at least. Try to break it."
You'd never ask a colleague for that. With AI it's the job.
For marketers: ask for 10 hooks, then 10 more in a different direction. Ask for the counterargument to your own strategy. Ask it to find the weakest part of what it wrote and fix it, twice.
It won't get mad at you.
Leaders: if your team uses AI politely, that's a training problem. Show them unreasonable, live.
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Your network is your greatest career asset.
Not because of the "hidden jobs" myth. I don't buy that.
Because people work with people. A warm referral from someone they trust will always beat a cold application. Full stop.
Can you land a job without it? Sure. But why play on hard mode?
In this market, you need every edge. And when I think about effort-to-impact ratio, your relationships are the most potent tool you have. By far.
The problem: the tools to actually leverage that asset have been terrible.
That's what we're building in the new version of Teal — a way to make careers feel more human and give people the time to invest in their relationships.
DM me if you want early access.
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We're partnering with @chambersouth on South Miami Tech Tuesdays. ChamberSOUTH members are always welcome, free. Every first Tuesday, 6 to 9 PM, Bougainvillea's Old Florida Tavern, South Miami. Next: Tue Nov 3. RSVP luma.com/purplehorizons
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ALT ChamberSOUTH is now a South Miami Tech Tuesdays partner. ChamberSOUTH members always welcome. Every first Tuesday at Bougainvillea's Old Florida Tavern. Next one: Tue Nov 3, 6-9 PM ET. Free RSVP: luma.com/purplehorizons
This will be a movie - the planning and then snap.
The Binance hacker might have just pulled off one of the smartest moves I’ve seen in crypto.
First, Tether froze $1.5 billion in USDT.
Then Circle froze another $800 million in USDC.
At that point, it looked like the hacker’s money was trapped.
But apparently, he had already planned for that.
Instead of holding the stolen USDT in a wallet, he allegedly deposited it into Aave and used it as collateral to borrow ETH.
Then he walked away.
That’s where the story gets crazy.
Tether can freeze the USDT sitting in the wallet.
But it can’t freeze the ETH he already borrowed.
So now Aave is left holding frozen collateral, while the hacker is sitting on liquid ETH.
And unless the protocol can recover it somehow, he may not even need to pay the loan back.
Two companies froze billions of dollars in seconds.
But someone who understood how to use DeFi may have found a way around both of them.
Pretty insane when you think about it.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
The described Aave deposit used only ~60M USDT as collateral to borrow 19,762 WETH before freezes hit the main wallet, not the bulk of funds; Aave states the overcollateralized position is subject to normal liquidation with no material protocol risk.
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Should you REALLY apply to that job?
Are you REALLY qualified?
We're using @typesafeai JEV to help you understand that to maximize your effort to outcome ration.
Looking for some more beta testers if you want to give this a try.
