{"id":7513,"date":"2012-03-09T10:01:42","date_gmt":"2012-03-09T10:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=7513"},"modified":"2012-03-09T10:04:31","modified_gmt":"2012-03-09T10:04:31","slug":"vinny-lingham-leaves-yola-starts-gyft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/7513\/vinny-lingham-leaves-yola-starts-gyft\/","title":{"rendered":"Vinny Lingham leaves Yola, starts Gyft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well-known Internet entrepreneur, <a title=\"Person Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/411041-Vinny-Lingham\" target=\"_blank\">Vinny Lingham<\/a>, has left <a title=\"Company Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/411047-Yola\" target=\"_blank\">Yola<\/a>, the company which he founded in 2007 and ran as CEO until 2012. Lingham will now focus on his latest startup, Gyft.<\/p>\n<p>Yola is a free website building service, offering premium hosting and feature sets.<\/p>\n<p>In his personal blog, Lingham congratulated Yola\u2019s former chief operations officer, Trevor Harries-Jones, who is taking over as CEO.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am very enthusiastic about the continued strong growth and prospects for Yola,&#8221; said Harries-Jones. &#8220;My immediate focus will be on completing the release of our new suite of exciting, high-quality, next generation products to our rapidly growing customer base, and on continuing to manage and expand our strong distribution partner platform.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Lingham will now focus on his new startup, Gyft &#8211; a mobile wallet for gift cards \u2013 which is set to be launched in May 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Lingham told MyBroadband BusinessTech that after five years, his job is done at Yola. \u201cThe product is built and I decided to move on to conquer new grounds,\u201d said Lingham.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will continue to be a shareholder and board member of the company and will still work with the management team to ensure that the company continues to grow from strength to strength,\u201d Lingham said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yola founder Vinny Lingham stepped down as Yola CEO to focus on his new venture, Gyft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":7517,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9882],"tags":[1905,26,1906,1255,1254],"class_list":["post-7513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-gyft","tag-headline","tag-trevor-harries-jones","tag-vinny-lingham","tag-yola"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7513"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7516,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7513\/revisions\/7516"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}