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
The $250M Acquisition That Imploded: Lessons in M&A Fraud
A $250M acquisition of VideoVerse collapsed amidst fraud allegations and forged signatures, underscoring critical M&A risks for founders and investors in due diligence and ethical conduct.
Cognition AI Targets $40B Valuation for Autonomous Devin Autonomous AI Engineers
Cognition, an AI coding startup, is reportedly seeking new funding at a $40 billion valuation, a 20x increase from its seed round, signaling intense investor confidence in autonomous AI software engineers and developer productivity tools.
Japan's Turing AI Self-Driving Eyes $10B IPO, US Expansion *A Global Tech Playbook*
Japanese self-driving startup Turing sets an ambitious $10 billion IPO target by 2030, alongside US expansion to secure global capital and top AI talent.
Bbot Founders' Exit to Olo: Contactless Ordering Success A Post-Pandemic Market
Explore how Bbot's specialized contactless ordering solutions for on-premise dining led to its strategic acquisition by Olo, expanding Olo's platform in a post-pandemic market.
AntigmaLabs Launches Ante: The Offline AI Coding Agent a local-first approach
AntigmaLabs introduces Ante, an innovative AI coding agent designed to run entirely offline as a single binary, prioritizing developer control, data privacy, and simplified deployment over cloud-dependent solutions.
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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