Folks, say hello to Justin Oh, Yik Yak's Lead Product Marketing Manager! Justin left the ad agency world in July of 2014 to come work for a little startup called Yik Yak. Before Justin's grand arrival, there was no marketing department. In fact, we only had 8 other employees!
Read MoreWe’re proud to announce that the renovations to our headquarters have finally been completed! If you remember, we finally moved into our own office space back in April, and we brought in Kyle Brooks, a local Atlanta artist, to help bring our walls to life..
Read MoreThere’s a lot of pressure when it comes to choosing the right Halloween costume. You have to dress to impress with both style & humor; this is the time to truly let your personality shine or, you know, scare the living daylights out of everyone….
Here at Yik Yak HQ, we decided to get into groups and put our brains together to come up with costume ideas. We thought it would be fun to let our users decide who was best dressed through a Peek poll in the Yik Yak app.
Read MoreAh, September. When the leaves begin to change and the air becomes crisp and chill. People seem to be a little happier this time of year, and most of us are around here too, the only thing that’s got us a little bummed is that and our last summer intern just left us (tear). And the office is a little emptier, a little quieter, and there are a lot less nerf darts whizzing about.
Before we adjust back to normalcy, I want to introduce you to our last two interns. Now, these two aren’t your average interns, these smarty pants are both working on their masters degrees! Say hello to Margaret and Chris!
Read MoreBefore Cam Mullen became Yik Yak’s Lead Community Developer, he was actually our first official intern!
In March of 2014, an enthusiastic college student from Vanderbilt contacted us when he saw on Twitter that we were looking for interns. Brooks and Tyler could tell that he was really passionate about the app, so they hired him right away. Cam graduated that May and moved to Atlanta to continue his internship and was eventually offered a full-time gig a few months later.
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