{"id":2342,"date":"2012-03-07T13:33:34","date_gmt":"2012-03-07T18:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meisterplanet.com\/journal\/?p=2342"},"modified":"2012-03-07T13:34:15","modified_gmt":"2012-03-07T18:34:15","slug":"geek-squad-founder-leaves-legacy-of-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/2012\/03\/07\/geek-squad-founder-leaves-legacy-of-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Geek Squad Founder Leaves Legacy of Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After nearly two decades of founding and then guiding one of the largest technology service companies in the US, Robert Stephens <a href=\"http:\/\/rstephens.blogspot.com\/\">announced that he was leaving Best Buy<\/a> today.<\/p>\n<p>I wrote a brief recap of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geeksquad.com\/intelligence\/blog\/robert-stephens-geek-squad-founder-leaves-best-buy\/\">how Robert changed service at Best buy as Chief Inspector and Chief Technology Officer<\/a> for the Geek Squad Blog.<\/p>\n<p>On behalf of all the Agents that have served with Geek Squad, I want to thank Robert for making the Squad more of a family than a company, and the role of Agent more of a passion than a job.  Good luck on your next adventure!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After nearly two decades of founding and then guiding one of the largest technology service companies in the US, Robert Stephens announced that he was leaving Best Buy today. I wrote a brief recap of how Robert changed service at Best buy as Chief Inspector and Chief Technology Officer for the Geek Squad Blog. On &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/2012\/03\/07\/geek-squad-founder-leaves-legacy-of-service\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Geek Squad Founder Leaves Legacy of Service&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,9,4],"tags":[100,219,42,449],"class_list":["post-2342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-news","category-technology","tag-best-buy","tag-business","tag-geek-squad","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2342"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2344,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2342\/revisions\/2344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}