{"id":3287,"date":"2014-11-07T16:33:35","date_gmt":"2014-11-07T21:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpressmu-1266771-5793343.cloudwaysapps.com\/news\/2014\/11\/07\/yik-yak-celebrates-a-birthday\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T18:23:25","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T23:23:25","slug":"yik-yak-celebrates-a-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpressmu-1266771-5793343.cloudwaysapps.com\/news\/yik-yak-celebrates-a-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"Yik Yak celebrates a birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpressmu-1266771-5793343.cloudwaysapps.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/YikYak-Image-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-15268 lazyload\" alt=\"YikYak-Image\" data-src=\"https:\/\/wordpressmu-1266771-5793343.cloudwaysapps.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/YikYak-Image-1.jpg\" width=\"235\" height=\"190\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 235px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 235\/190;\" \/><\/a>Furman alumni Tyler Droll and Brooks Buffington are celebrating a birthday, the first for their online business that has attracted big investments. Their anonymous messaging app, Yik Yak, which connects users who are geographically close to each other, has become a sensation on college campuses. It has also become a big hit with investors. The former Kappa Alpha fraternity brothers, who started the company after graduating in 2013, raised $1.5 million this spring and another $10 million shortly after that. Yik Yak, which has become the third-most downloaded app on the Google Play store, now has 22 employees. Read more in <b><i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gsabusiness.com\/news\/52975-former-furman-frat-brothers-celebrate-startup-rsquo-s-1st-birthday\">GSA Business<\/a><\/i><\/b>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Furman alumni Tyler Droll and Brooks Buffington are celebrating a birthday, the first for their online business that has attracted big investments. Their anonymous messaging app, Yik Yak, which connects users who are geographically close to each other, has become a sensation on college campuses. It has also become a big hit with investors. The former Kappa Alpha fraternity brothers, who started the company after graduating in 2013, raised $1.5 million this spring and another $10 million shortly after that. Yik Yak, which has become the third-most downloaded app on the Google Play store, now has 22 employees. Read more in <b><i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gsabusiness.com\/news\/52975-former-furman-frat-brothers-celebrate-startup-rsquo-s-1st-birthday\">GSA Business<\/a><\/i><\/b>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":14006,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpressmu-1266771-5793343.cloudwaysapps.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpressmu-1266771-5793343.cloudwaysapps.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpressmu-1266771-5793343.cloudwaysapps.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpressmu-1266771-5793343.cloudwaysapps.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpressmu-1266771-5793343.cloudwaysapps.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpressmu-1266771-5793343.cloudwaysapps.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpressmu-1266771-5793343.cloudwaysapps.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpressmu-1266771-5793343.cloudwaysapps.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpressmu-1266771-5793343.cloudwaysapps.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpressmu-1266771-5793343.cloudwaysapps.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}