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
Uber & Pony.ai Deploy 2,000 Robotaxis Across Europe Scaling Autonomous Mobility
Uber and Pony.ai's partnership to deploy 2,000 robotaxis across Europe signifies a major leap in autonomous mobility, offering founders insights into strategic alliances and international scaling challenges.
General Catalyst Leads $1.1B Round in 2-Month-Old River AI A New AI Funding Benchmark
General Catalyst's $1.1B investment in two-month-old River AI, founded by top AI talent, redefines early-stage deep tech valuations and capital deployment for AI safety.
Infra.Market's Reverse Listing: A New IPO Path for Unicorns
Indian unicorn Infra.Market explores a reverse listing via Shalimar Paints, pioneering an expedited public market debut while navigating valuation trade-offs and regulatory complexities.
ESS Inc. Raises $750M via SPAC for Long-Duration Iron-Flow Batteries Valued at $1.075 Billion
ESS Inc. raised $750 million via a SPAC merger and PIPE, going public to accelerate deployment of its 'rust-powered' iron-flow batteries.
The $250M Acquisition That Imploded: Lessons in M&A Fraud
A $250M acquisition of VideoVerse collapsed amidst fraud allegations and forged signatures, underscoring critical M&A risks for founders and investors in due diligence and ethical conduct.
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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