David Smooke
David Smooke
"Horizontal Storytelling" TEDx Talk by David Smooke
David Smooke is the Founder & CEO of Hackernoon.
He is based in Edwards, Colorado.
Early Life & Education
Smooke grew up in Lewistown Pennsylvania.
He later graduated cum laude from theUniversity of Redlands with a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Non-fiction Creative Writing in 2010.
He received the Presidential Scholarship, Academic Achievement Award, and made the Dean's list.
Career
From 2010 to 2011, Smooke worked as a newspaper reporter at The Lewistown Sentinel in Lewistown, Pennsylvania.
He previously worked for the newspaper in 2006 as a mailroom employee.
Smooke then spent 2011-2015 at SmartRecruiters, a recruiting software company, where he was a a marketing director.
Hackernoon has grown to 7k+ contributing writers, 200k+ daily readers, and 8M+ monthly pageviews.
They raised $1M via equity crowdfunding in Jan. 2019.
Personal Life
David is married to Linh Dao Smooke.