David Smooke

David Smooke is Founder & CEO at Hackernoon. We're a small team working to become the best place for tech professionals to publish.

We launched our content management system in July 2019, and it's currently powering 25M+ minutes reading per month on Hackernoon.com. Anyone can now visit the site, click Get Published, write or upload a draft, and have it reviewed by a professional tech editor for publication.

I grew the company from a boutique marketing agency (originally was called ArtMap Inc) into a vibrant blog network (AMI Publications) in 3 years - and for most of that time I was the only full time employee. Now, I work with my COO and wife Linh Dao Smooke. As Hacker Noon showed results, we kept pouring more and more of our time into it, and it took over the business. We're now up to 7 full time people (software developments, editorial, sales), serving 10k+ published writers and 4M+ monthly readers.

I begin every morning by reviewing the best Hacker Noon story submissions from all around the internet.