Mahmoud Eljendy

Co-Founder & CEO at Proteinea

[Paul Graham @paulg]

You don't know how big a fish you are till you try a big pond.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

Even in the most successful startups, even many years in, the founders are dealing with hair-raising problems. They mostly conceal these struggles from the outside world and even from their own employees. There's no upside in talking about them. But I hear about them.

[Hazem @hazemessamm]

I am at the International Conference of Machine Learning (ICML) and will be presenting our work on Protein Language Models. If you are there and want to meet and talk about PLMs or NLP, DM me.

[Ryan Holiday @RyanHoliday]

"The rarest of human qualities is consistency." — Jeremy Bentham

[Steve Jobs Stories @SJobs_Stories]

"You've got to be willing to fail, you've got to be willing to crash and burn - you know, with people on the phone, with starting a company, whatever. If you're afraid of failing, you won't get very far." — Steve Jobs, 1994

[Roshan Patel @roshanpateI]

I didn’t start a startup because it was easy.

I did it because I thought it would be easy.

[Amgen 🧪🔬🧬 @Amgen]

Amgen and @LabCentral are pleased to announce Pearl Bio and Proteinea as the winners of the 2023 Golden Ticket Competition.

We're proud to partner with LabCentral to support local biotech startups, and look forward to seeing more of Pearl Bio and Proteinea's exciting work. 🔬

[Mark Manson @Markmanson]

Most of what we perceive as problems will magically go away after a walk outside and a good night’s sleep.

[Angelos Georgakis @angelosgeo]

Biotech leaders, here's what it takes to truly innovate. 👇

Wise words from the Founder and CEO of Flagship Pioneering, Noubar Afeyan:

"Scientific innovation is heavily limited by reasonableness.

How can you expect extraordinary results from reasonable people doing reasonable things?

Everybody's looking for extraordinary outcomes, but they constantly want to figure out whether every single step is the right, reasonable one.

People go ask key opinion leaders, they do what's called due diligence and there's this massive crowdsource reasonableness filter. And yet they expect extraordinary results...

I learned a long time ago, that if you aspire to extraordinary results, you've got to be comfortable with being unreasonable—and persistently so.

So you might say, "Well, then, if you're unreasonable, does that mean you get extraordinary results?"

Of course, not; it's not reversible...

And that's where the evolutionary approach comes in:

You first project yourself to things and places that people consider unreasonable in terms of what you're proposing to do or are willing to do...

But then what makes you survive is recognizing that when you get there, you can do variation and selection and look for what survives.

Every single company that we've created at Flagship has this exact same philosophy."

Noubar Afeyan, Flagship Pioneering

[Bill Gurley @bgurley]

More Startups Die of Indigestion Than Starvation. Focus Wins. Doing too many things fails.

[omar @muhmorsi]

ما خسرته بالشدة كنتَ أقرب إلى كسبه باللين، وما ضيعته بالغضب كنت أقرب إلى نيله بالأدب، وما فرطت فيه بالعناد كنتَ أقرب إلى التمسك به بالتفاهم. وما ضيَّع ابنَ آدم إلا عجَلته، وما آذاه إلا قسوتُه، وما فاته جميلٌ في حياته إلا بتخلّيه عن رفقِه في الأمور كلها.

يوسف الدموكي

[Mahmoud Eljendy @meljendy]

@NavalismHQ @naval @SaveToNotion #thread

[Ahmed Elnaggar @Elnaggar_AI]

Introducing Ankh ☥ :
An optimized protein language model (PLM) achieving SoTA performance with < 10% of the top/closest-performing models’ parameters. It is benchmarked on various downstream protein tasks, and tested for protein generation.
https://t.co/7VYwz748TV
(1/n)

[Bloomberg Middle East @middleeast]

Saudi Arabia is taking on EV batteries. That should put the world on high alert, writes @anjani_trivedi https://t.co/ORr0tKiS6T via @opinion

[Michael Pettis @michaelxpettis]

1/10
I could say I predicted this – yet another month of surging exports and flat imports – but in fact I never expected quite this much. Exports in June grew 17.9% year on year, far more than forecast, to $331 billion. That's up 7.5% month on month.

https://t.co/82BmwEImGJ

[STEM @stem_feed]

Most detailed image of Jupiter.

[SynBio Africa @SynBioAfrica]

@azizelgammal presents about the #NextGen Full Stack Biomanufacturing Platform being worked on by the Proteinea Team from #Egypt.

For more on this and more #synbio projects by young African Scientists, join the African iGEM showcase event here; https://t.co/mt28BLHnYg

[Muthukrishnan Dhandapani @dmuthuk]

Lessons are very old. Learners are new.

[Ankur Nagpal @ankurnagpal]

The very existence of your startup should ~not~ be predicated on the next round of funding

It's always been true, but finding myself repeating this a lot more lately...