# Jon Stokes

Source: https://symbolic.ai/team/jon-stokes

Co-Founder, President & CPO

Jon Stokes is a 25-year veteran of online media, an engineer, a journalist, and an author. He co-founded [Ars Technica](https://arstechnica.com/) in 1998, and then sold it to Condé Nast in 2008. He was a [WIRED](https://www.wired.com) 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](https://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](https://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](https://www.jonstokes.com/).