{"id":1173,"date":"2015-08-27T18:33:35","date_gmt":"2015-08-27T22:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2015.tampa.wordcamp.org\/?post_type=wcb_speaker&#038;p=1173"},"modified":"2015-08-31T09:56:50","modified_gmt":"2015-08-31T13:56:50","slug":"syed-balkhi","status":"publish","type":"wcb_speaker","link":"https:\/\/tampa.wordcamp.org\/2015\/speaker\/syed-balkhi\/","title":{"rendered":"Syed Balkhi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/syedbalkhi.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Syed Balkhi<\/a> (@syedbalkhi) is an award winning young entrepreneur with several 7 figure online businesses. He was recognized as the top 100 entrepreneur under the age of 30 by United Nations. His work has been featured in Forbes, Inc, Washington Post, Fox Business, Entrepreneur, Wired, and many top publications. In 2009, he created <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpbeginner.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">WPBeginner<\/a> which is now one of the largest free WordPress resource site on the web. In 2011, he created a site called <a href=\"http:\/\/list25.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">List25<\/a>, an extremely popular site that within 3 months of launch was receiving 5 million page views per month. List25 has over 1.7 million subscribers and 300 Million video views on Youtube. In 2013, he launched <a href=\"http:\/\/optinmonster.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">OptinMonster<\/a>, the best lead generation software that helps businesses grow their email list. To date, it has been viewed by billions of people and has helped businesses collect millions of emails. Aside from these, Syed is also the founder of<a href=\"http:\/\/www.themelab.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">ThemeLab<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/soliloquywp.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Soliloquy<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/enviragallery.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Envira Gallery<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Syed Balkhi (@syedbalkhi) is an award winning young entrepreneur with several 7 figure online businesses. He was recognized as the top 100 entrepreneur under the age of 30 by United Nations. His work has been featured in Forbes, Inc, Washington &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/tampa.wordcamp.org\/2015\/speaker\/syed-balkhi\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"assistive-text\">Syed Balkhi<\/span>  <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9077772,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_wcpt_user_name":"smub","footnotes":""},"speaker_group":[],"class_list":["post-1173","wcb_speaker","type-wcb_speaker","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5JKhT-iV","avatar_urls":{"24":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/46568bfa267dfbb67dadd3ee0b9497a8aad9ca8094c8f234fc9dd08ee572bdac?s=24&d=mm&r=g","48":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/46568bfa267dfbb67dadd3ee0b9497a8aad9ca8094c8f234fc9dd08ee572bdac?s=48&d=mm&r=g","96":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/46568bfa267dfbb67dadd3ee0b9497a8aad9ca8094c8f234fc9dd08ee572bdac?s=96&d=mm&r=g","128":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/46568bfa267dfbb67dadd3ee0b9497a8aad9ca8094c8f234fc9dd08ee572bdac?s=128&d=mm&r=g","256":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/46568bfa267dfbb67dadd3ee0b9497a8aad9ca8094c8f234fc9dd08ee572bdac?s=256&d=mm&r=g","512":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/46568bfa267dfbb67dadd3ee0b9497a8aad9ca8094c8f234fc9dd08ee572bdac?s=512&d=mm&r=g"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tampa.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/1173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tampa.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tampa.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/wcb_speaker"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tampa.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9077772"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tampa.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1173"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tampa.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/1173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1439,"href":"https:\/\/tampa.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/1173\/revisions\/1439"}],"sessions":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tampa.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/1308?_embed=1&context=view"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tampa.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"wcb_speaker_group","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tampa.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker_group?post=1173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}