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
QpiAI Launches Asia's Largest Quantum Foundry, Aims for 10,000 Qubits
QpiAI launches Asia's largest quantum chip foundry, targeting 10,000-qubit processors and poised to reshape global quantum hardware development and deep tech innovation.
Stripe Acquires AI Gateway OpenRouter for $7B Fintech's Strategic AI Move
Stripe's reported $7B+ acquisition of AI gateway OpenRouter marks a strategic pivot into AI infrastructure, signaling escalating valuations and consolidation within the AI market.
DoorDash's $9.5B Acquisition: Daniel Giat's Unconventional Path to Exit
Discover how Daniel Giat bootstrapped his delivery logistics app, leading to a multi-stage acquisition by Wolt and then DoorDash for $9.5 billion, showcasing a unique founder exit strategy.
Anthropic's $2 Trillion IPO Target: A New AI Benchmark
Anthropic's CEO targets an ambitious $2 trillion IPO, setting an unprecedented benchmark for AI startups and reshaping investor expectations in the generative AI market.
RedotPay's $1B IPO Halted by Binance Lawsuit Crypto Scam Allegations
RedotPay's planned $1 billion IPO has been abruptly halted following a Binance lawsuit alleging the crypto payment processor facilitated over $1 billion in illicit funds from "pig butchering" scams, highlighting severe regulatory risks for crypto startups.
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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