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David Smooke

Founder & CEO @ HackerNoon

Edwards, Colorado

Education

Work Experience

  • Founder & CEO

    2013

    How hackers start their afternoons. HackerNoon's a small team of editors, software developers, and startup people working to publish the best technology stories and build the best publishing software. We've served 4k+ tech companies as customers, published over 45k+ curious and insightful contributing writers, raised $2.9M from 1,300+ awesome shareholders such as Alexis Ohanian, Garry Tan, Stefan Thomas, Forward Research, Colorado Venture Fund, FlyerOne Ventures, and more. Since launch, 300M+ humans have visited HackerNoon to learn something about technology. Read: hackernoon.com Write: hackernoon.com/p/publish Business business.hackernoon.com Careers: careers.hackernoon.com Help help.hackernoon.com About: hackernoon.com/p/about

  • Founder

    2013

    Startup marketing company turned digital publishing holding company. DBA HackerNoon!

2011 - 2015

  • Director, Content Marketing & Social Media

    2012 - 2015

    Built a network of 400+ contributing bloggers on the SmartRecruiters Blog, learned GTM strategy from pre-seed through Unicorn status, and made some friends along the way.

  • Blog Editor / PR Manager / Content Marketing / Social Media Marketing

    2011 - 2012

  • Intern

    2011 - 2011

    Reported to the CEO. Was a small team back then!

  • Newspaper Reporter

    2010 - 2011

    Wrote for my hometown paper!

  • Research Assistant & Fact Checker

    2009 - 2010

    Fact checked "Irrepressible: The Life and Times of Jessica Mitford" by Leslie Brodie.

  • Economics Tutor

    2008 - 2009

    Tutored micro and macro economics via office hours and 1:1 appointments.

2006 - 2006

  • Mail Room Employee

    2006 - 2006

    Nightshift. I moved stacks of newspaper for $5.35/hour.