{"id":2953,"date":"2014-07-21T14:29:47","date_gmt":"2014-07-21T18:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2014\/07\/21\/furman-grads-take-yik-yak-to-new-level\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T18:25:08","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T23:25:08","slug":"furman-grads-take-yik-yak-to-new-level","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/furman-grads-take-yik-yak-to-new-level\/","title":{"rendered":"Furman grads take Yik Yak to new level"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/YikYak-Image.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-12907 lazyload\" alt=\"YikYak-Image\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/YikYak-Image.jpg\" width=\"235\" height=\"190\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 235px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 235\/190;\" \/><\/a>Two 2013 Furman graduates\u2014Brooks Buffington and Tyler Droll\u2014have raised $10 million from major Silicon Valley investors to fund Yik Yak, a location-based social app that allows users to post messages anonymously to other users in their 1.5 mile radius. The two alums, who created the app at Furman and launched it during the university\u2019s Homecoming weekend in November 2013, recently established the company\u2019s first official headquarters in Atlanta Tech Village. With the $10 million, Droll and Buffington are building a full-time staff that includes a front-end developer, back-end developer, community manager, community development manager, designer, lead digital marketer, director of operations and interns. The <b><a href=\"http:\/\/upstatebusinessjournal.com\/news\/furman-grads-secure-10m-anonymous-social-app-yik-yak\/\">Upstate Business Journal<\/a><\/b> recently caught up with the Yik Yak creators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two 2013 Furman graduates\u2014Brooks Buffington and Tyler Droll\u2014have raised $10 million from major Silicon Valley investors to fund Yik Yak, a location-based social app that allows users to post messages anonymously to other users in their 1.5 mile radius. The two alums, who created the app at Furman and launched it during the university\u2019s Homecoming weekend in November 2013, recently established the company\u2019s first official headquarters in Atlanta Tech Village. With the $10 million, Droll and Buffington are building a full-time staff that includes a front-end developer, back-end developer, community manager, community development manager, designer, lead digital marketer, director of operations and interns. The <b><a href=\"http:\/\/upstatebusinessjournal.com\/news\/furman-grads-secure-10m-anonymous-social-app-yik-yak\/\">Upstate Business Journal<\/a><\/b> recently caught up with the Yik Yak creators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":13434,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2953","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=2953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}