{"id":2311,"date":"2014-05-27T20:09:33","date_gmt":"2014-05-28T00:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2014\/05\/27\/2014-furman-grad-high-tech-ceo\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T17:58:26","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T22:58:26","slug":"2014-furman-grad-high-tech-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2014-furman-grad-high-tech-ceo\/","title":{"rendered":"2014 Furman grad is high tech CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/sabai-tech-photo.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-11439 lazyload\" alt=\"sabai-tech-photo\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/sabai-tech-photo.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"207\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 220px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 220\/207;\" \/><\/a>Anja Smith is CEO of Sabai, a fast-growing, tech company in Simpsonville that provides virtual private network routers to more than 120 countries. She also happened to graduate this spring from Furman\u2019s Undergraduate Evening Studies program with a Bachelor of Liberal Arts degree in business administration. Smith, along with the company\u2019s founder, was interviewed in the May 16 issue of <b><a href=\"http:\/\/issuu.com\/cjdesigns\/docs\/05162014_ubj_issuu\/17?e=2014166\/7870926\">Upstate Business Journal<\/a><\/b> about the company\u2019s success.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anja Smith is CEO of Sabai, a fast-growing, tech company in Simpsonville that provides virtual private network routers to more than 120 countries. She also happened to graduate this spring from Furman&rsquo;s Undergraduate Evening Studies program with a Bachelor of Liberal Arts degree in business administration. Smith, along with company&rsquo;s founder, was interviewed in the May 16 issue of&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/issuu.com\/cjdesigns\/docs\/05162014_ubj_issuu?e=2014166\/7870926\">Upstate Business Journal<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;about the company&rsquo;s success.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":13239,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}