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
Blind Egyptian Founder Launches AI App for Visual Accessibility
Ahmed Mostafa, a blind Egyptian founder, launched 'Blind Helper,' an AI app for visual accessibility, demonstrating extreme bootstrapping and problem-driven innovation.
General Intuition: $6B Valuation Fuels Robotics AI Future *The Future of Embodied AI*
General Intuition, a robotics AI startup, secured $300 million in Series C funding, reaching a $6 billion valuation and signaling a significant acceleration in venture capital's bet on general-purpose AI for robotics.
Nvidia's $30B+ Bet on Perplexity AI: A Strategic Shift AI Application Layer Play
Nvidia is reportedly considering a massive investment in Perplexity AI, potentially valuing the company at over $30 billion, signaling a critical strategic pivot into the AI application layer and disrupting traditional search.
Rillet: AI Accounting Unicorn Achieves $100M Series B in 48 Hours
AI accounting startup Rillet secured $100M Series B funding and unicorn status in 48 hours, underscoring aggressive investor psychology and intense competition in AI capital markets.
DeepMind Alumni's Inherent AI Outperforms OpenAI & Anthropic New AI Agent Faraday Shakes Up Market
Former DeepMind researchers launched Inherent AI, whose Faraday agent achieved 92% accuracy in scientific replication, surpassing OpenAI and Anthropic models and securing a $35M seed round.
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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