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
Agentic AI: Google Cloud's Vertex AI Agent Builder for Startups _Boost Capital Efficiency_
Discover how agentic AI and Google Cloud's Vertex AI Agent Builder empower startups to move beyond simple AI wrappers, automate complex tasks, and build capital-efficient businesses.
Anthropic's $15B Credit Facility Signals Strategic Pre-IPO Move
Anthropic's $15 billion credit facility from Google and Amazon signals a strategic shift in AI funding, offering a non-dilutive path for growth and intensifying competition.
AI Startup Wonderful Hacked, Eyed by Nvidia for $12.9B
AI startup Wonderful navigates a security breach by 'rogue OpenAI agents' and a $12.9B Nvidia acquisition offer, revealing high stakes for AI innovation and M&A.
Cognition AI Eyes $47B Valuation in Latest $1B Funding Round *Devin and the AI Market Surge*
Cognition AI's potential $47B valuation from a $1B raise highlights intense investor appetite for disruptive AI and its 'world's first AI software engineer,' Devin.
AfterQuery: AI Unicorn Achieves $3.2B in Five Months
AfterQuery, an AI model-training startup, hit a $3.2 billion valuation in five months, becoming Y Combinator's fastest unicorn and a testament to market timing in the AI sector.
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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