Tarek Elessawi

Frmr Principal @ PNP Ventures, Early Stage Investment Arm of @PlugandPlayTC; Previously @Google @AccentureStrat @Citi (Views are my own, etc.)

[Men in Blazers @MenInBlazers]

OMAR MARMOUSH HAT TRICK. LIKE SEEING THE DEATH STAR GET A NEW TURBO LASER.

[Tarek Elessawi @tarekelessawi]

@Ghitelman 😂😂😂 Bravo 👏

[Tarek Elessawi @tarekelessawi]

@Ghitelman @nys_cannabis Congrats Aaron - a very well-deserved lunch with bubby! Looking forward to what's up next 🚀

[Tarek Elessawi @tarekelessawi]

Big news from @kareemaly_ just in time for New Year’s gains! 💪💪

[Kabata @kabatafitness]

Kabata pre-orders are NOW LIVE!

Hurry to https://t.co/MtreemYk4F to get our BIGGEST discount - exclusively for friends, family and Founding Members. Limited quantity! ⚡️

[Anita Elberse @anitaelberse]

New case alert! 🚨 An examination of the unparalleled Mohamed Salah, his agent Ramy Abbas, and their contract negotiations with Liverpool FC last summer. 😁 Big thanks to @MoSalah and @RamyCol for offering a look behind the scenes, @taherelmoataz, @liverpoolfc, and @ianlynam. 🙏

[PFT Commenter @PFTCommenter]

USA golden generation is here. Pray for the rest of the world we finaly learned how to use our feet

[Sam Altman @sama]

here is an alternative path for society: ignore the culture war. ignore the attention war. make safe agi. make fusion. make people smarter and healthier. make 20 other things of that magnitude.

start radical growth, inclusivity, and optimism.

expand throughout the universe.

[Bilal Zuberi // Red Glass Ventures @bznotes]

I truly believe the next 10 years of successful VC investing will be neither about crypto or AI or hardware or software.

It will be about RESPONSIBLE INVESTING.

Some founders and VCs rode the past few tech waves (eg. last 10-15 years of mobile, local, social, cloud, crypto, AI, etc) to great financial success, but paid somewhat limited attention to how tech was used to further improve on average human condition and health, national security interests of our country, and global issues like climate change, inequality, extremism etc. Vs facilitate deliberate or indirect damage to others.

Rest of society is, imo, catching up to such extractive/mercenary elements in tech and VC, and all of us are seeing/feeling the pushback. This past week’s events highlighted them even more.

But not all founders and VCs are mercenaries. In fact, many feel very mission-aligned to doing good in the world, and they strive to use technology to solve important problems. I am betting on those trends, and those types of company building efforts to succeed, esp as advanced technologies pervade all aspects of society: from education and elections to dating, finance, medicine, law, manufacturing, religion, defense, and more…it may not make quick money, it may take a bit longer, and it may require us to do things a little differently as we scale companies, but it’s the right thing to do for long term continued success of Silicon Valley.

[Tarek Elessawi @tarekelessawi]

@leveredvlad The Deepmind team just had a nice chuckle reading this 😂

[Ori Eldarov @leveredvlad]

/1 Fifty six seconds.

That's how long it took me to generate 36 Air Jordan- inspired sneaker #designs with a fine-tuned #StableDiffusion model.

Let me show you how🧵

[Tarek Elessawi @tarekelessawi]

Fantastic thread / essay by @leveredvlad 🔥💪

[Ori Eldarov @leveredvlad]

1/ What if you couldn't sell your NFT?

In this essay I discuss some non-financial applications of NFTs and how brands and artists can deliver actual utility to holders without speculative financialization.

A 🧵👇

[Tarek Elessawi @tarekelessawi]

Absolutely incredible achievement. Wow.

[Sam Altman @sama]

Have an idea for DALL·E? Reply with a caption. I'll generate 20 or so!

[Tarek Elessawi @tarekelessawi]

@mercebent Great advice 😉

[Tarek Elessawi @tarekelessawi]

If you're interested in NFTs/web3/art, check out this awesome project! Congrats @sjwhitmore on the launch!

[Sam Whitmore @sjwhitmore]

So, so excited to announce the launch of @blankfdn today! I've been working on this project for a few months with amazing people. It's a community art experiment -- we're giving out 10k *free* Blank NFTs and the community will vote how to evolve them!

[Pitchfork @pitchfork]

Kendrick Lamar shares a new statement, says he’s producing his “final TDE album”: “See you soon enough” https://t.co/EhRZBr3Qyu

[Tarek Elessawi @tarekelessawi]

@janisskriveris @mantle3d

[Tarek Elessawi @tarekelessawi]

Congrats to the entire @mantle3d team on today's announcement! 🚀 Metal 3D printing has been getting A LOT of attention with all the recent SPAC activity, but Mantle is about to make some serious waves 🌊

[TechCrunch @TechCrunch]

Metal 3D printing startup Mantle launches out of stealth with $13M in funding https://t.co/CHC0m5X2lW by @bheater

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

ur welcome

[Tarek Elessawi @tarekelessawi]

@elonmusk grilling @vladtenev on CH is the right way to cap off the weekend

[Tarek Elessawi @tarekelessawi]

I think it’s pretty indicative of the environment we're in that I just sold gold ($GLD) to buy doge ($🐕🐩🐕‍🦺)