For years, Miami has been cast as Silicon Valley's pandemic-era escape hatch — a sunny refuge for tech billionaires and crypto founders fleeing California. New data, however, suggests the story is more complicated. Rather than a one-way exodus, the relationship between the two hubs has settled into a steady, two-way exchange of talent and capital. The pipeline between them first began to gain traction during the pandemic, and the number of tech workers in Miami overall has continued to grow