Erik Smith “Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
- E-mail me, tweet at me, Facebook me, Skype me, AIM me (eksmith03), gChat me (eksmith03); whichever you please.
- I'm an entrepreneur at heart.
- I'm fascinated by social dynamics, both online and in reality.
- I'm genuinely interested in you, your goals, and what you have to say.
- I grew up in Kansas and Oklahoma, and currently live in Oakland, CA.
- I graduated with a degree in communications from Oklahoma Wesleyan University in 2011.
- I co-founded Tracks.by; the most viral way to launch music on Facebook. Investors and advisors include Dave Morin, Josh Elman, Menlo Ventures, Dave Maestri, Nils Johnson, Alex Le, Venture51, Apu Gupta, Maneesh Arora. Our artists include Lil Wayne, Drake, Trey Songz, Far East Movement, and B.o.B. (among others). I work at Tracks.by with Matt Schlicht, Mazyar Kazerooni, Chase Sechrist, and Bryan Kim. I secretly joined the Tracks.by team for the sole purpose of meeting Regina Spektor.
- I own a web services company, Shuffle Interactive, and love seeing ideas come to life. We specialize in social web development and consulting. Shuffle was one of the first of 15 companies chosen by Facebook for the Preferred Development Program in 2009. I work on Shuffle with Duncan Winter and Emily Smith. Our advisors are Ryan Merket and Craig Davis.
- I led product at Relevvant, a mobile advertising and analytics platform.
- I co-founded Workstir, Inc. a 2008 fbFund company.