{"id":114663,"date":"2014-11-25T07:39:11","date_gmt":"2014-11-25T05:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=114663"},"modified":"2014-11-25T07:44:07","modified_gmt":"2014-11-25T05:44:07","slug":"hellopeter-sold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/114663-hellopeter-sold.html","title":{"rendered":"HelloPeter sold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HelloPeter founder Peter Cheales announced today, 25 November 2014, that he has left\u00a0the company, which will now be led by a \u201cnew team of entrepreneurs\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In an email to users, Cheales said that it was time for him to say goodbye. \u201cIt\u2019s time for fresh blood, more energy, and new life,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Cheales said that he could not reveal who the buyers were, but did say that it was a South African consortium of entrepreneurs.<\/p>\n<p>He added that he had sold 100% of HelloPeter for an undisclosed amount, and that he had left the company on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Cheales said that he will continue to write books and speak at conferences \u2013 things he enjoys and did before he started HelloPeter in 2000.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will continue to watch from the sidelines. The site will always be a part of me,\u201d Cheales told users.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on HelloPeter<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Telecoms HelloPeter customer service ranking\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/110578-telecoms-hellopeter-customer-service-ranking.html\"><strong>Telecoms HelloPeter customer service ranking<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"HelloPeter\u2019s best and worst ADSL ISPs\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/adsl\/69134-hellopeters-best-and-worst-adsl-isps.html\"><strong>HelloPeter\u2019s best and worst ADSL ISPs<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa\u2019s premier customer service website HelloPeter has been acquired, with former owner Peter Cheales leaving the company<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":114667,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[35,1507,27811],"class_list":["post-114663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-headline","tag-hellopeter","tag-peter-cheales"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114663"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114663"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114671,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114663\/revisions\/114671"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}