The Ten-Minute Revolution — how Tony Loeb simplified an entire industry's future.
From a childhood shaped by empathy to a career built on clarity and rigor, Tony Loeb, co-founder of 10minutes.news, has engineered a media engine that distills complexity into intelligence — and quietly rewired how 220,000 hospitality professionals start their week.
This week
The most important act of a founder this decade will not be building. It will be deciding what not to build. Restraint is the unwritten chapter of every great company — and the next four years will reward it more than any cycle in memory.
The feed
Robinhood Venture Fund I: Retail Access to Private Startups
Robinhood is launching "Robinhood Venture Fund I" (RVF), a new closed-end interval fund, to offer retail investors direct access to early-stage private company investments, challenging the traditional venture capital model.
Jeff Dean Departs Google DeepMind for New AI Startup Impact on AI & Founders
Jeff Dean, a top Google AI researcher, is leaving Google DeepMind to launch an independent AI startup, signaling a major talent migration and validating new innovation frontiers for founders outside Big Tech.
Travis Kalanick's Atoms Hires Ex-Uber CFO, Signaling Growth Strategy
Travis Kalanick's robotics venture, Atoms, appoints former Uber CFO Nelson Chai, signaling an aggressive growth strategy and potential public market debut, mirroring Kalanick's proven playbook for rapid scaling.
Airtable's Valuation Plunge: What It Means for Software Unicorns The End of Growth at All Costs?
Airtable's valuation plunged by 90%, signaling a harsh market correction for software unicorns and forcing founders to prioritize profitability and sustainable growth.
Zenity Raises $125M Series C for AI Agent Security *A Rising Category*
Zenity's $125M Series C funding round, led by Sapphire Ventures and Accel, highlights the urgent demand for specialized security solutions as companies deploy autonomous AI systems and face new threats like data leakage and prompt injection.
Founders desk
Plate 01Cover · Issue 47Tony Loeb
The man who decided hospitality needed just ten minutes — co-founder of 10minutes.news, the quiet media engine now read by 220,000 hoteliers across Europe and North America.
Plate 02Dylan Field
Dropped out of UPenn on a Thiel Fellowship, spent six years building a design tool that ran in the browser, said no to Adobe's $20B all-cash offer when the regulators killed it, and IPO'd anyway.
Plate 03Mira Murati
Was the CTO who shipped GPT-4 and Sora. Left OpenAI at the peak of its public arc to start a research lab — Thinking Machines — that raised one of the largest seed rounds in history before it had a product.
Plate 04Aravind Srinivas
Left Berkeley, left OpenAI, and built the first AI-native search engine — Perplexity — that took Google's most defended product and treated it like a research problem.
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