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
Vijay Pande's VZVC: From Mega-Fund to Focused AI Bets in AI-Native Biotech
Vijay Pande pivots from a16z's $4B biotech practice to VZVC, a $150M solo GP fund focused on early-stage AI-native health care and biotech, redefining deep tech venture capital.
Oura's IPO Dilemma: $16B Target Amidst Lawsuits For Founders & Investors
Oura Health Oy eyes a massive $16 billion IPO, but a high-profile sleep data privacy lawsuit threatens to complicate its public market debut, highlighting critical risks for scaling founders.
a16z Launches $1.1B 'Machine Age' Fund for Physical AI A Strategic VC Shift
Andreessen Horowitz commits $1.1 billion to its new 'Machine Age' fund, signaling a major venture capital pivot towards hardware, robotics, and physical AI infrastructure.
OpenAI's New $175M Fund: Sole LP, Strategic Shift
OpenAI's new $175 million venture fund features the company as its sole limited partner, signaling a strategic shift to deeply integrate and control its AI ecosystem.
David Tisch's BoxGroup: $750K Seed to $1B Cursor Exit Unconventional VC Strategy
BoxGroup's David Tisch turned a $750K seed in AI startup Cursor into a billion-dollar exit, proving that prioritizing founder vision over immediate product-market fit can generate exponential returns.
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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