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
Bira 91 Founder Ankur Jain Steps Down, Relinquishes $30M Stake Founder-Investor Dynamics Shift
Ankur Jain, founder of Bira 91, exited the board and gave up a $30 million equity stake, signaling a major shift in founder-investor dynamics as the company targets profitability and an IPO.
Natural Raises $30M, Takes on Stripe in AI Agent Payments
Natural secures $30M to build AI agent payment infrastructure, challenging Stripe by enabling ultra-micropayments and intent-based machine-to-machine transactions.
Jack Dorsey Launches 'Buzz' for Integrated Team Collaboration
Jack Dorsey's new 'Buzz' project at Block aims to revolutionize team collaboration by unifying chat, AI agents, and Git hosting into a single, opinionated platform, challenging fragmented incumbents.
Jungo's $82M IPO to $300K Sale: A Post-Public Decline *Lessons in market relevance*
Follow Jungo Ltd.'s dramatic journey from an $82M IPO to a $300K unit sale, offering founders key insights into market relevance, acquisition impacts, and value erosion.
Databricks' $188B Valuation: A Case Study in AI Repositioning AI's Favorite Second Act
Explore how Databricks transformed from a data analytics leader to a $188 billion AI powerhouse, offering crucial lessons for founders navigating strategic market shifts and leveraging acquisitions.
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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