Srinivasan: Miami functions as the Singapore of Latin America
Balaji Srinivasan · Balaji on How to Fix the Media, Cloud Communities & Crypto | MFM #178 · May 5, 2021 · at 1:55:24
Balaji Srinivasan discusses modern commercial entrepôts and why Miami attracts cross-border Latin American business and technology venture capital.
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“Miami is like the Singapore of Latin America, which is to say that if you've got like a, you know, Mexican national and a guy from Paraguay and they want to do a deal, they'll do it in Miami because everybody knows it. They all respect it. It's like a decentralized, you know, demilitarized zone. It's got good banking rule of law because based in the U S at least relatively to South America, Latin America, more stable currency relative to there.”
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