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
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.
Daniel Ek's Neko Health Raises €30M for US Tech Push Preventative Body Scanning
Spotify co-founder Daniel Ek's Neko Health secured €30M Series A funding to expand its advanced body-scanning technology across Europe and explore a strategic entry into the US market.
Rippling Co-founder Launches Vorflux with $15M Seed Funding A Founder's Strategic Pivot
Prasanna Sankar, former Rippling co-founder, secures $15M seed for Vorflux, an enterprise AI software engineering firm, after pivoting from his previous startup's shutdown.
Built Robotics (SpaceX Alumni) Raises $115M for Construction Automation Deep Tech in Heavy Construction
Built Robotics, led by SpaceX alumni, raised $115M for its autonomous construction equipment, showcasing how deep tech transforms traditional industries and addresses critical labor shortages.
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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