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
Index Ventures Secures $2B Across Three New Funds Multi-Stage Funding for Founders
Index Ventures has successfully raised $2 billion across three new multi-stage funds, signaling robust LP confidence and continued access to capital for founders from seed to growth in a challenging market.
Hugging Face Breach: AI Security Lessons for Founders
The Hugging Face security breach revealed critical vulnerabilities in the open-source AI supply chain, offering essential lessons for founders on securing their platforms and protecting their valuation.
YC's 2026 RFS: Top Startup Ideas & Hard Problems to Solve
Y Combinator's May 2024 Request for Startups outlines a strategic pivot towards "hard problems" and "new capabilities" to guide founders seeking early-stage funding.
African Fintech Jumo Enters Business Rescue Amid Funding Crunch
Leading African fintech Jumo has entered business rescue in South Africa, signaling severe funding challenges for growth-stage startups despite prior significant investment rounds.
Moonshot AI, DeepSeek Valuations Soar Before Hong Kong IPOs
Explore how Moonshot AI's valuation rocketed to $50B and DeepSeek secured $450M, signaling a fierce global AI race and potential Hong Kong IPOs for these Chinese tech giants.
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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