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David Smooke

Founder & CEO @ HackerNoon

Edwards, Colorado

Overview 

David Smooke is the Founder and CEO of HackerNoon, a prominent tech blogging platform. With a background in journalism and content marketing, he has successfully grown HackerNoon into a leading source of tech news and insights, showcasing strong skills in content strategy and brand development. Having founded HackerNoon and led it to success, David Smooke's career highlights include overseeing the platform's growth, establishing a strong online presence through SEO and social media marketing, and building a reputable brand within the tech industry.

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

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