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
Banofi Transforms Banana Waste into Sustainable Leather for Fashion
Jinali Mody's Banofi converts India's 30 million tonnes of annual banana waste into luxury vegan leather, offering a biodegradable, plastic-free solution for sustainable fashion and a circular economy.
Defense AI Firm Helsing Secures $225M Series B, Valued at $1.8B
Helsing, a defense AI firm, secured $225M in Series B funding, achieving a $1.8B valuation amidst rising investor demand for advanced military technology.
Fizz Sues Lightspeed: VC Accused of Leaking Data to Rival
College app Fizz has filed a lawsuit against Lightspeed Venture Partners, alleging the VC firm shared its confidential business information with competitor Sidechat, raising critical questions about investor ethics and data protection.
AI Startups Capture 80% of Global VC: Unpacking the Market Shift
In Q1 2024, AI startups secured 80% of global VC funding, totaling $60 billion, dramatically reshaping the investment landscape and challenging non-AI ventures.
The GPU Boom: Circular Financing in AI Infrastructure *Nvidia's Role & Founder Impact*
Explore how AI infrastructure providers leverage high-demand GPUs as collateral in a 'circular financing' model, rapidly scaling compute capacity and reshaping capital access for founders.
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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