David Moreen

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About David Moreen

Hey, I'm David. I’ve been building things since I was 14 years old. I’m 30 now and time has flown but my passion and drive to create amazing products has only gotten stronger. One of the first successful products that I ever created was WeRefer, a PHP application that I sold on CodeCanyon when I was 15-16 yrs old. I remember getting an email from Envato once saying they froze my account and needed my mom to confirm I could sell there because I was under 18. So I said “Mom I’m going to use your email real fast, ok?”. If that doesn’t date me enough, I built my first website using Dreamweaver in 2008 to host my Ustream feed. I built my first iPhone app in 2011 using Objective-C to help a young diabetic (me) give himself insulin. The app never got to the app store but maybe I’ll dust it off and it’ll be the next unicorn! Since then, I pursued a CS degree at UCF. Dropped out after 2.5 years after my first internship at a startup and decided to get a job! One of my first jobs was with two founders sitting in the smallest office you’ve ever seen. The office was small but the work was great! We were building websites and online ordering systems for national restaurants. After that, I started working at an ecommerce company that sold skis and the biggest parkas you’ve ever seen in South Florida. It’s weird but all the wealthy people live in Florida and travel to Colorado to Ski so it made cents, actually it made millions! It worked out really well for me. I got amazing experience at that job, I was like a tech founder in a company that was 60 years old. I was respected, had autonomy and full access to their AWS account! Starting 2017, I started working on a contacts web app for my wife and I to use for networking. Why? Because I could not for the life of me find anything on the market that did exactly what I wanted. Turns out I was building a CRM and didn’t even know what a CRM was. I brought it through a few iterations; in 2020 I rewrote the app as an iOS application and released it to the app store and got a few downloads just in time to get hired by a competitor and needing to shut it down! That’s right, I worked at one of the coolest CRM companies in the world, HubSpot, working hard and building new features in their iOS app that you would never see unless you pay $500 a month per seat :) But that was one of the best experiences I’ve ever had. It taught me a lot. And that leads me today and if you somehow endured this story up to this point, we might get along well and I’d love to connect.