#13 Ed Cooke, cofounder of Memrise and MindMax Labs
EnglishJul 28, 2025
Ed is founder of Memrise, one of the world’s most prominent and most used language apps (70m active users). He is also the co-founder of Sonic Sphere, and more recently, edtech startup MindMax Labs. He is also World Master of Memory.
In this episode, Margaux Wehr and Louis Abraham talk to Ed Cooke about his beginnings starting Memrise, the role of memory, and LLMs in the context of his new edtech startup.
In this episode, Margaux Wehr and Louis Abraham talks with Ed about:
1) Ed’s brilliant background at Oxford and what led him to become a Master of Memory
2) Ed’s creation and scaling of Memrise, one of the world’s most used language apps
3) Ed’s perspective on LLMs and AI
5) Ed’s 3 favourite books and startups
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