{"id":7256,"date":"2018-02-21T17:32:43","date_gmt":"2018-02-21T22:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2018\/02\/21\/alum-joins-board-of-new-app\/"},"modified":"2022-11-06T18:58:14","modified_gmt":"2022-11-06T23:58:14","slug":"alum-joins-board-of-new-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/alum-joins-board-of-new-app\/","title":{"rendered":"Alum joins board of new app"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tyler Droll, a 2013 Furman graduate and a co-founder of Yik Yak, has joined the board of directors for Relevnt, an app that connects users with local news sources. Droll co-founded Yik Yak, a social-networking tool, with fellow alum Brooks Buffington \u201913. The company shut down operations in April 2017, and both Droll and Buffington have moved on to other projects. Read more in <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.myajc.com\/news\/local\/founder-atlanta-now-defunct-yik-yak-joins-board-new-app\/oA5aZfXxcWymigyAhCXgNJ\/\">The Atlanta Journal-Constitution<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tyler Droll, a 2013 Furman graduate and a co-founder of Yik Yak, has joined the board of directors for Relevnt, an app that connects users with local news sources. Droll [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":7257,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,33,6,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-computer-science","category-in-the-news","category-the-furman-advantage"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7256","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=7256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}