Who's behind Leo?

A team of two co-founders are behind Leo. Jon Cooper holds a BA in History and an MSc in the History and Philosophy of Science from Cambridge, where he developed an interest in early modern Britain and its empire. He is currently a PhD candidate at Stanford, writing a dissertation that reinterprets the rise of economic theory in the early seventeenth century through the lens of monetary history. Jack Weston holds a Master's in Physics from Oxford and a PhD in Physics from Cambridge. His doctoral research focused on developing novel machine learning methods for interpreting particle physics data. He is also formerly the co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of an AI biotechnology startup. Jon and Jack met at Cambridge and came up with the idea of collaborating on Leo at the Mill Road Winter Fair in December 2022.