New interview with David Smooke, Founder of HackerNoon, and new ways to turn remote teams’ chatter into publishable content. Introduction from BENZINGA: Founded in 2016, HackerNoon is an independent technology media publishing platform founded and run by David Smooke and Linh Dao Smooke. The site works with an innovative approach to crowdsourcing content — and publishes about 30 stories per day. That, along with a certain editorial point of view and personality on tech stories, has garnered a loyal following.