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
Eric Wu's NavigateAI Tackles Construction Labor Crunch with AI _AI Copilots for Building_
Eric Wu, Opendoor co-founder, launches NavigateAI, deploying AI copilots to address the construction industry's critical labor shortage and low productivity.
Physical AI Startup Lyte Secures $165M Seed at $1.6B Valuation
Lyte, a Physical AI startup by ex-Apple engineers, secured a record $165M seed at a $1.6B valuation, validating investor confidence in foundational robotics and AI.
Nscale Seeks $3.5B Pre-IPO Funding After $45B Anthropic Deal *Fueling the AI Compute Race*
Nscale's $3.5B pre-IPO funding, following a $45B Anthropic deal, underscores the escalating demand for AI compute and the intense capital race defining the infrastructure sector.
XDOF: Robot Data Startup Hits $1.2B Valuation in 3 Months Lessons for Deep-Tech Founders
XDOF's rapid $1.2 billion valuation just three months after exiting stealth highlights intense investor appetite for foundational robot data technologies, offering critical insights for deep-tech founders.
Agentic AI: Google Cloud's Vertex AI Agent Builder for Startups _Boost Capital Efficiency_
Discover how agentic AI and Google Cloud's Vertex AI Agent Builder empower startups to move beyond simple AI wrappers, automate complex tasks, and build capital-efficient businesses.
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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