David Smooke

Founder

Edwards, Colorado, United States18 yrs experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Founded and scaled HackerNoon with 300M+ visitors.
Raised $2.9M from notable investors.
Built a successful network of 400+ bloggers.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Digital Publishing and Content Marketing expert with a strong entrepreneurial background.

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Skills

Core Skills

Content ManagementDigital MarketingContent MarketingLead Generation

Other Skills

BloggingWritingSocial MediaMarketingSEOContent StrategyPublic RelationsBusiness StrategyAnalyticsOnline AdvertisingEditingResearchOnline MarketingBrand DevelopmentWeb Content

About

Hello, I'm the Founder & CEO of HackerNoon. We're a small team of editors, software developers, and sales people working to publish the best technology stories and build the best publishing software. Our entirely free library is 150k+ blogs about #programming, #startups, #cryptocurrency, #ai, #javascript, #bitcoin, #web-development, #entrepreneurship, and everything else #technology. Our flagship product is the content management system (CMS) that powers HackerNoon.com. It's built for technologists to read, write, learn, and publish. All for free - no paywalls, no popups, no needless pixels - just quality tech stories. In addition to running ads, HackerNoon monetizes via business blogging and writing contests. We've served 4.5k+ tech companies as customers, published over 50k+ 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. How hackers start their afternoons! Learn more about us (hackernoon.com/p/about), getting your story published (hackernoon.com/p/publish) and partnering with HackerNoon (business.hackernoon.com).

Experience

18 yrs

Total Experience

5 yrs 6 mos

Average Tenure

13 yrs 4 mos

Current Experience

Hackernoon

Founder & CEO

Jan 2013 – Present · 13 yrs 4 mos · Edwards, Colorado

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

BloggingWritingSocial MediaMarketingSEOContent Strategy+5

Artmap inc. dba hackernoon

Founder

Jan 2013 – Present · 13 yrs 4 mos

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

Smartrecruiters

3 roles

Director, Content Marketing & Social Media

Promoted

Jul 2012 – Jan 2015 · 2 yrs 6 mos

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.

Content MarketingSocial MediaBlogging