I'm David Elikwu

To be brutally honest, I'm just a nerd with some fountain pens who hasn't stopped writing since he was five.

* I'm doing my best to make sense of the world around me.
* I'm a prolific learner - absorbing knowledge is my superpower.
* I started sharing everything I learned online and a few thousand people signed up to come along for the ride.
* This is the place where I share everything you'll need to know about learning more and living better.
* 'The Knowledge' is named after one of the hardest exams in the world - an infamously gruelling test for taxi drivers in London. London 'cabbies' study the Knowledge to memorise the 25,000 roads, alleys, nooks and crannies spread across a sprawling city. Likewise, this platform maps data points for navigating the world around us. I'm building a cognitive compass. A place you go to figure things out.
* In addition to my [newsletter](https://www.theknowledge.io/about/#/portal) and [podcast](https://plnk.to/theknowledge), I run a [course](https://maven.com/theknowledge/career-hyperdrive) helping people like you build kick-ass careers!

## My career journey

As a more professional introduction, I started my career early, working on marketing campaigns for companies like Amazon, Krispy Kreme, and Credit Suisse.

I interned at Google, moved to Shanghai, came back when I ran out of money and nabbed a grad job in consulting. I hadn't graduated but I brought on four Tier-1 clients in 6 months before being offered my 'dream job' working on billion dollar deals in Corporate Law.

It took half a decade to realise I had bigger dreams. At some point I'd picked up photography as a hobby, was shooting New York and London fashion weeks within two years, and turned the side gig into a brand strategy consulting practice.

After consulting for a bunch of startups I pivoted to technology full-time, joining a startup as Chief of Staff and then transitioning to Product Operations.

I built a few other businesses along the way including a travel club for 2000+ millennial travellers, and a social impact brand supporting global artisanship through [African coffee and biodynamic wine](https://demrepworld.com).

That's the boring stuff out of the way! If you want brutally honest accounts of my early career experiences, go [here](https://theknowledge.io/issue51) and [here](https://theknowledge.io/issue52).

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