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 Chip Unicorn SambaNova Raises $1B at $11B Valuation
SambaNova Systems secured $1 billion in Series D funding, valuing the AI chip developer at $11 billion, highlighting surging investor appetite for specialized AI chips and full-stack AI platforms.
GitHub AI Agent Leaks Private Repos: New Security Risks For Startups & Founders
Noma Security uncovered a 'Confused Deputy' vulnerability in GitHub Copilot Chat, allowing prompt injection to leak private repo data, revealing critical new AI security challenges for startups.
OpenAI's Unannounced GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, Luna Models *Verifying AI Founder Claims*
Founders must critically evaluate claims about new AI models like GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna, as official sources show no record of their existence. Strategic planning requires verified information.
Anthropic IPO: $18B AI Startup Signals New Tech Exit Era *Implications for AI & VC*
Anthropic, valued at $18 billion, is reportedly engaging banks for an IPO, potentially validating high AI valuations and reactivating the subdued tech IPO market.
Figma Acquires 'Vibe-Coding' App Team, Hints at New Design Future
Figma's $50M acquisition of Synthesia Dev and its 'vibe-coding' technology signals a major shift towards agentic development, aiming to redefine the design-to-code workflow for product founders and engineering leads.
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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