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
SK Hynix's $26.5B IPO: A New Titan in the AI Chip Era Founders Take Note
SK Hynix's record-breaking $26.5 billion U.S. IPO highlights unprecedented investor demand for AI infrastructure, particularly HBM chips, and reshapes global semiconductor manufacturing dynamics.
Ground State Ventures Closes €75.2M Quantum Fund for Europe
Ground State Ventures, formerly QDNL Participations, has successfully closed its €75.2 million early-stage quantum fund to invest in promising quantum technology startups across Europe, addressing a critical capital gap.
SpaceX Cursor $60B Acquisition Rumor: Fact vs. Fiction for Founders
The unverified $60 billion SpaceX-Cursor acquisition rumor highlights how founders must distinguish speculative reports from actual market signals in the volatile AI sector.
Leverage Edu Acquires Mundus Agency, Enters LatAm Market _Scaling Study Abroad Services_
Leverage Edu acquires Brazil's Mundus Agency, marking a strategic entry into the South American market to scale its comprehensive study abroad services with vital local expertise.
Norm AI Hits $1.2B Valuation with $15M Seed Round *Reshaping RegTech*
Norm AI's $1.2 billion seed valuation, led by CapitalG, reshapes the RegTech landscape, signaling investor confidence in AI's power to automate complex regulatory compliance 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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