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
Travis Kalanick's Atoms Raises $1.7B for Industrial AI Robotics *Valued at $15 Billion*
Travis Kalanick's industrial AI robotics company, Atoms, secured $1.7 billion in Series C funding, pushing its valuation to $15 billion and signaling a major play in automated supply chains.
Jeff Bezos Backs CuspAI with $30M for Real-World AI A New Era for AI Investment
Jeff Bezos's venture firm co-led a $30M seed round for CuspAI, signaling a major shift in tech capital towards tangible, real-world AI applications like carbon capture and sustainable energy.
OpenAI Hires Apple Vision Pro Exec for Hardware Push
OpenAI's strategic recruitment of a top Apple Vision Pro hardware leader signals a major pivot into physical products, intensifying competition in the AI hardware sector for founders.
A16Z DOJ Probe: Interlocking Directorates & VC Governance Future of VC Governance
The DOJ's civil inquiry into a16z over Section 8 Clayton Act violations signals heightened antitrust scrutiny for venture capital, compelling founders to reassess board representation.
OpenAI's Daybreak: Reshaping Cyber Defense & Startups
OpenAI's new 'Daybreak' AI model, launching August 2026, will redefine AI-native cybersecurity, creating both competitive pressures and new opportunities for defense tech and enterprise AI startups.
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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