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
Stripe Acquires AI Gateway OpenRouter for $7B Fintech's Strategic AI Move
Stripe's reported $7B+ acquisition of AI gateway OpenRouter marks a strategic pivot into AI infrastructure, signaling escalating valuations and consolidation within the AI market.
DoorDash's $9.5B Acquisition: Daniel Giat's Unconventional Path to Exit
Discover how Daniel Giat bootstrapped his delivery logistics app, leading to a multi-stage acquisition by Wolt and then DoorDash for $9.5 billion, showcasing a unique founder exit strategy.
Anthropic's $2 Trillion IPO Target: A New AI Benchmark
Anthropic's CEO targets an ambitious $2 trillion IPO, setting an unprecedented benchmark for AI startups and reshaping investor expectations in the generative AI market.
RedotPay's $1B IPO Halted by Binance Lawsuit Crypto Scam Allegations
RedotPay's planned $1 billion IPO has been abruptly halted following a Binance lawsuit alleging the crypto payment processor facilitated over $1 billion in illicit funds from "pig butchering" scams, highlighting severe regulatory risks for crypto startups.
Databricks' $5B Raise: AI Capital Frenzy & Market Impact What the AI Frenzy Means
Databricks secured $5 billion at a $190 billion valuation, signaling unprecedented investor appetite for AI infrastructure and setting new benchmarks for market competition and capital strategies 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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