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 man who built a $6 billion company from a village.
Sridhar Vembu walked out of Princeton, walked away from Silicon Valley, and walked home. Then he built one of India's most valuable software companies — without raising a single rupee of outside funding.
Rippling Co-founder Launches Vorflux with $15M Seed Funding A Founder's Strategic Pivot
Built Robotics (SpaceX Alumni) Raises $115M for Construction Automation Deep Tech in Heavy Construction
Stripe & Advent's $53B+ PayPal Bid Reshapes Fintech Implications for Founders
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
LimX Dynamics: $2.2B Pre-IPO Valuation for Humanoid Robotics
Chinese humanoid robotics startup LimX Dynamics secures a $2.2 billion pre-IPO valuation, signaling strong investor confidence and setting a new benchmark for deep tech companies in the advanced…
Apple Sues OpenAI Over AI Trade Secrets: What Founders Need to Know _for AI startups_
Apple's lawsuit against OpenAI for alleged AI trade secret theft could redefine intellectual property, talent mobility, and partnership dynamics, setting a critical precedent for AI startups.
Self-Driving Unicorn Momenta Files for Hong Kong IPO
Chinese autonomous driving startup Momenta's HKEX IPO filing marks a strategic shift for tech firms amid US-China tensions, offering insights for founders navigating global capital markets.
Whip Media Pivots to Enterprise AI, Sunsets TV Time App
Whip Media pivots to enterprise AI by sunsetting its popular TV Time app, strategically repurposing valuable consumer data for higher-margin B2B solutions and offering crucial insights for founders.
OpenAI Considers IPO, Posing Unique Challenges for AI Investors
OpenAI's rumored public listing would challenge investors with its capped-profit model and high valuation, setting a critical precedent for the future of AI in public markets.
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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