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
DOGE Alumni Launch Military Cyber Startup with $1.4B Valuation
Co-founded by Coinbase and Dogecoin alumni, Dark.xyz secures $40M Series A at a $1.4B valuation to modernize cybersecurity for U.S. government agencies, starting with the Department of Defense.
Colossal Biosciences Eyes $30B Valuation for De-Extinction Tech
Colossal Biosciences is reportedly seeking new funding at a $20-30 billion valuation, signaling strong investor confidence in de-extinction and deep tech bio-engineering despite long timelines.
Travis Kalanick's Robotics Company Raises $1.7B, Led by a16z
Travis Kalanick's robotics venture, operating inside CloudKitchens, secures $1.7 billion led by a16z to develop automated industrial and logistics facilities.
Passionfroot Raises $15M for B2B Creator Marketplace US Expansion *Creator Economy Growth*
Berlin-based Passionfroot secured $15 million in Series A funding to propel its B2B creator marketplace into the US, accelerating product development and team growth.
Glow Exits Stealth with $1.2B Valuation for AI Security *Defining AI Endpoint Protection*
Glow's $1.2B valuation upon exiting stealth signals a critical shift in cybersecurity, compelling founders to re-evaluate AI endpoint protection strategies and seize new market opportunities.
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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