Meet the Founder
John Vincent Lee
John Vincent Lee is a founder, storyteller, and creative systems-builder whose work lives at the intersection of technology, altruism, and art. Beginning his career as a photojournalist documenting American protest movements, from Occupy Wall Street to Standing Rock-- Lee developed an instinct for capturing the human spirit in moments of tension, resilience, and transformation.
He later founded Loopie, scaling it into a multi-city venture before selling the core operations and evolving the company into Loopie Technologies, a reimagined SaaS platform for entrepreneurship. Today, Lee leads Compassion Ventures, a mission-driven venture studio building regenerative companies such as ChatGPTree.ai, GPT.website, Facsimiles.ai, and the Creative Altruism Institute.
Across all of his projects, Lee’s work is united by a single throughline: the belief that entrepreneurship can be a vessel for creative altruism: the idea that innovation and generosity can be engineered into systems that make the world better.
As an artist, Lee writes and creates under the name Jon Kiote, a cinematic alter-ego inspired by the mythic courage of Don Quixote and the introspective wanderings of filmmakers like Richard Linklater and Werner Herzog. His creative practice spans photography, poetry, conceptual filmmaking, and long-form narrative documentation.
Whether planting trees through AI interactions, building digital-twin legacies, reimagining laundromats, mentoring founders, or designing philosophical technology, Lee’s work is guided by a single north star:
Use creativity to build systems that help people, and use business to keep those systems alive.
