{"id":67942,"date":"2016-04-05T10:04:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-05T06:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=67942"},"modified":"2016-04-11T10:04:19","modified_gmt":"2016-04-12T06:04:19","slug":"velocity","status":"publish","type":"magazine","link":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/magazine\/velocity","title":{"rendered":"Velocity Garage Director Mike Kirkup Leaves for Fintech Startup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 11px 22px; float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/c2.staticflickr.com\/2\/1715\/26253522135_092659ef4f_b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"322\" height=\"195\" \/>After four years of working to create &#8220;the best place in the world to build a startup,&#8221; director Mike Kirkup is leaving Velocity.<\/p>\n<p><!-- pagebreak --><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I truly love the team we have built at Velocity and will miss working with them every day,&#8221; he wrote online.<\/p>\n<p>He plans to work on a startup himself.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After four incredible years building the best startup program in the world, the startup bug has bit me and the time has come for me to work at a startup myself,&#8221; he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Kirkup has accepted the CTO role at <a href=\"https:\/\/encircleapp.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Encircle<\/a>, enterting the white-hot financial technology space.<\/p>\n<p>Encircle is moving out of the Velocity Garage and into space within the Communitech Hub.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After four years of working to create &#8220;the best place in the world to build a startup,&#8221; director Mike Kirkup is leaving Velocity. &#8220;I truly love the team we have built at Velocity and will miss working with them every day,&#8221; he wrote online. He plans to work on a startup himself. &#8220;After four incredible [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54503,"featured_media":67944,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"magazine-region":[],"magazine-series":[],"magazine-topic":[],"class_list":["post-67942","magazine","type-magazine","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/67942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/magazine"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/54503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/67942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/67944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67942"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-region?post=67942"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-series?post=67942"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-topic?post=67942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}