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
Sequoia Leads $1B Round for Valar Atomics *Nuclear Tech's Funding Surge*
Sequoia Capital led a $1 billion Series B for Valar Atomics, signaling a major VC shift towards hard tech and nuclear energy to address clean power demand and AI's growing energy needs.
UK AI Chip Startup Olix Hits $3.3B Valuation With $312M Raise
UK AI chip startup Olix secures $312M Series C, reaching a $3.3B valuation and showcasing the power of strategic government investment in deep tech.
Jeff Bezos' AI Startup Anthropic Hits $41 Billion Valuation
Anthropic, the AI startup backed by Jeff Bezos, secured $6.75 billion in new funding, propelling its valuation to $41 billion and intensifying the generative AI race.
Zepto Halts IPO Plans, Eyes Pre-IPO Fundraise
Zepto, India's quick commerce unicorn, delays its IPO to 2027, prioritizing a $300-$500M pre-IPO fundraise and EBITDA positivity amidst a tough consumer tech market.
Index Ventures Secures $2B Across Three New Funds Multi-Stage Funding for Founders
Index Ventures has successfully raised $2 billion across three new multi-stage funds, signaling robust LP confidence and continued access to capital for founders from seed to growth in a challenging market.
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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