The COVID-19 pandemic has created the Great Dispersion, spreading tech talent around the world, and one of the biggest winners of this phenomenon is Miami. During the pandemic, Miami has received the highest year-over-year tech worker migration of any other U.S. city, compared with the same period a year earlier. Recently, scores of tech heavyweights—like the founders of Shutterstock and SwagUp, and financial institutions of all asset classes like Founders Fund, Blackstone and Millennium Partners—have also moved to the city, bringing credibility and energy to what’s been dubbed Miami’s Magic Moment.

Pandemic-Fueled Growth