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
Zenity Raises $125M Series C for AI Agent Security *A Rising Category*
Zenity's $125M Series C funding round, led by Sapphire Ventures and Accel, highlights the urgent demand for specialized security solutions as companies deploy autonomous AI systems and face new threats like data leakage and prompt injection.
Nazara Tech: CEO Exit, ₹82 Cr Loss, New Funding Explored Lessons for Founders
Gaming tech firm Nazara Technologies faces a critical juncture as its founder-CEO steps down amid a significant Q1 loss and plans for new funding, offering founders key insights into public market challenges.
Sequoia Leads $1B Round for Valar Atomics *Nuclear Tech's Funding Surge*
Sequoia Capital led a $1 billion Series B for Valar Atomics, signaling a major VC shift towards hard tech and nuclear energy to address clean power demand and AI's growing energy needs.
UK AI Chip Startup Olix Hits $3.3B Valuation With $312M Raise
UK AI chip startup Olix secures $312M Series C, reaching a $3.3B valuation and showcasing the power of strategic government investment in deep tech.
Jeff Bezos' AI Startup Anthropic Hits $41 Billion Valuation
Anthropic, the AI startup backed by Jeff Bezos, secured $6.75 billion in new funding, propelling its valuation to $41 billion and intensifying the generative AI race.
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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