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<\/picture>\nVenture Capitalist Keith Rabois will teach a Barry’s Bootcamp workout among ‘fit-tech’ community in Miami.\u00a0<\/span> (Keith Rabois)<\/span><\/p>\n “For the first time in over a year, my calendar started shifting to real-world meetings — for interviews, for investor pitches — and it’s been incredibly invigorating. Engaging with people in person is much more useful than a Zoom call,” Rabois says of favoring IRL (in real life) over remote work meetings.<\/p>\n Rabois has had a productive 2021 since moving to Miami during the pandemic last year. He founded the startup OpenStore, which, according to Axios, will buy up small e-commerce companies and he’s opened up new offices for venture capital firm Founders Fund, which is invested in companies like buy-now-pay-later company Affirm, and Airbnb among many others. On the fitness front, Rabois is also an investor in Tempo, a home fitness company with interactive coaching, weights and equipment he says is “the next Peloton.”<\/p>\n While many Americans have invested in at-home workout gear and perhaps jumped on the ubiquitous Peloton bandwagon of stationary bikes and treadmills with streamed workouts, Rabois believes the future of fitness in a post-pandemic world will be a combination of at-home meets in-person workouts.<\/p>\n “I think the future will be a hybrid. Resistance training is a critical ingredient for everybody’s workout and it’s very difficult for people to do strength training at home. People need both guidance and form correction. I think some people will allocate some time to training at home just for convenience, then people like to get inspired with in-person classes — running next to someone on a treadmill urges you to run faster; seeing other people lifting dumbbells encourages you to lift heavier weights, plus you’re in a community meeting new people and engaging with new people. Some people will take one or two classes a week and then exercise on their own," he says.<\/p>\n Rabois, who purchased a $28.9 million Miami Beach Mansion last year, The Real Deal reported, has been an avid proponent of the move to the Sunshine State. In November, Rabois told Fortune he was moving out of San Francisco, his home for two decades because it was “so massively improperly run and managed that it’s impossible to stay here.”<\/p>\n TECH TITAN FLEES SAN FRANCISCO FOR FLORIDA, SAYS CITY IS POORLY MANAGED<\/strong><\/p>\n The pandemic, coupled with the rising cost of living, prompted what some have called a tech exodus from Silicon Valley to cities like Miami, Austin and Denver luring in major tech and finance companies from the likes PayPal's Peter Thiel, Palantir’s Alex Karp and Joe Lonsdale and other companies like Citadel and Blackstone which are slated to open offices in Miami. Goldman Sachs is also considering moving some of its offices to South Florida, sources told Bloomberg. <\/p>\n Miami Mayor Francis Suarez has encouraged big tech companies to make the move to the sunshine state using Twitter to advocate for his city in December.<\/p>\n “It’s become this virtual meeting place where new founders, VCs [venture capitalists] and even engineers … are completely rallying around this sort of marketing campaign,” he told FOX Business Network's “After the Bell” in December. “It’s something that’s created a tremendous amount of momentum for our city that we’re going to capitalize on.”<\/p>\n And after reopening after COVID-19 related shutdowns as early as June, fitness industry insiders in Miami have noticed an uptick in interest in bookings particularly among the tech crowd as corporate offices continue to sprout up.<\/p>\n