Jon Stokes

Jon Stokes is a 25-year veteran of online media, an engineer, a journalist, and an author. He co-founded Ars Technica in 1998, and then sold it to Condé Nast in 2008. He was a WIRED editor, and has contributed to, edited for, and in some cases run a long list of publications in both mainstream and independent media.

Jon was the second software developer and eventually the first CTO at Dubai-based EatApp.co, a 500 Startups company that is now the top hospitality platform in the Middle East and North Africa. He most recently worked for Balaji Srinivasan on TheNetworkState.com and its predecessor 1729.com, managing the community, writing and editing content, and writing software. He has also written a popular book on microprocessor architecture, and most recently has been covering web3 and generative AI at his newsletter, jonstokes.com.