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
AI Pacing: Altman & Amodei's Calls Reshape Startup Strategy A New Era for AI Innovation
The calls from OpenAI and Anthropic CEOs for 'pacing the frontier' of AI development signal a strategic shift that demands AI startups integrate safety and ethics, impacting their entire innovation cycle.
Databricks Soars to $188B: The AI Pivot Driving Record Valuation
Databricks' $188 billion valuation highlights the immense market reward for companies that successfully pivot into high-growth AI sectors, offering crucial lessons for growth-stage startups.
SpaceX Acquires Cursor AI for $500M: Key Implications *A Strategic AI Integration*
SpaceX acquires AI coding startup Cursor for $500M, integrating advanced generative AI to accelerate Starship and Starlink development.
Anthropic's Strategic Rebound: Post-Ban Product Blitz & AI Push A Blueprint for AI Startups
Anthropic's dual strategy—lifting export controls and launching Claude Sonnet 5 and Claude Science—offers AI startups a blueprint for balancing innovation with regulatory engagement and market differentiation.
Nvidia Acquires Kumo AI, Deepens Enterprise AI Strategy Impact on Founders
Nvidia's $1.2 billion acquisition of Kumo AI signals a strategic push into full-stack enterprise AI, intensifying competition and highlighting the value of specialized solutions for founders.
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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