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
12 traits every successful entrepreneur shares — backed by real founder interviews.
We reviewed years of long-form interviews with founders who built durable businesses — Zoho, Perplexity, 10minutes.news, Bending Spoons, and more — and pulled the twelve patterns that actually show up in the people who make it, in their own words.
10 bootstrapped founders who took zero VC money — and built companies worth billions.
The venture-capital playbook wasn't the only way. These ten founders refused outside funding, kept full ownership, and built enterprise-scale companies on their own cash — proof that the fastest path is not always the loudest one.
Nobel Laureate Doudna's Scribe Secures $100M Series C
Scribe Therapeutics, co-founded by Nobel Laureate Jennifer Doudna, has raised over $212 million in private funding to advance its next-generation CRISPR gene-editing technologies.
Nvidia Invests $5 Billion in Ilya Sutskever’s New AI Lab SSI
Nvidia's unprecedented $5 billion investment in Ilya Sutskever's Safe Superintelligence Inc. signals a new phase in funding for pure AGI research, prioritizing safety and long-term development over immediate commercialization.
Ilya Sutskever Launches SSI for Safe AGI Research Seeking Billions for AGI
Ilya Sutskever, with Daniel Gross and Daniel Levy, launches Safe Superintelligence Inc. to build safe AGI, securing early capital and intensifying the AI talent and funding war.
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.
By desk
Read with the people who build the next decade.
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