David Smooke
Founder & CEO @ HackerNoon
Edwards, Colorado
Overview
Work Experience
Founder & CEO
2013 - Current
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!
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!
SmartRecruiters is an end-to-end recruiting platform that helps companies with talent acquisition.
Raised $225,009,956.00 from Silver Lake Waterman, Mayfield Fund, Acadian Ventures, ABACON CAPITAL and Insight Partners.
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.
Mail Room Employee
2006 - 2006
Education
B.A.
2006 - 2010