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
Space Tech Funding Soars, Driven by SpaceX IPO Buzz
Fueled by SpaceX's soaring valuation and IPO buzz, space tech funding surged to $2.5 billion in Q4 2023, marking the highest quarterly investment in two years and signaling renewed investor confidence.
Neil Rimer: Is the AI Funding Bubble Deflating? *Is the AI Funding Bubble Deflating?*
Veteran VC Neil Rimer of Index Ventures predicts a significant AI investment retraction, challenging the boom narrative and signaling tougher times for early-stage startups.
Nuclear Startup Valar Atomics Eyes $6B Valuation in Funding Talks
Valar Atomics, an advanced nuclear startup, is reportedly negotiating new funding at a $6 billion valuation, reflecting robust investor confidence in deep tech energy.
Wonder Secures $650M Series D, Valuation Jumps to $9 Billion
Wonder, the mobile restaurant kitchen startup, secures $650M Series D funding, boosting its valuation to $9B, validating its unique, vertically integrated food tech model.
Oak Secures $60M to Solve AI Agent Identity Security A New Frontier in Cybersecurity
Oak emerges from stealth with $60 million in funding to tackle the critical challenge of securing autonomous AI agent identities, a problem traditional human-centric IAM systems cannot address.
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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