{"id":13842,"date":"2017-09-01T02:27:08","date_gmt":"2017-09-01T09:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/?p=13842"},"modified":"2017-09-01T02:27:08","modified_gmt":"2017-09-01T09:27:08","slug":"cartoon-week-kevin-durant-takes-shot-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/cartoon-week-kevin-durant-takes-shot-cloud\/","title":{"rendered":"Cartoon of the Week: Kevin Durant takes a shot at the cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Durant, who was named the most valuable player in the NBA finals, is taking a shot at cloud computing. The Golden State Warriors star is adding a tech startup to his investment portfolio and serving as a board adviser for start-up Rubrik, providing advice on strategic marketing initiatives.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018It&#8217;s a perfect opportunity\u2019 in the business-to-business market that is a \u2018major play for us\u2019, Durant told USA TODAY on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Durant thought about his fans when taking this shot. He\u2019s investing in something his fans take very seriously as he run into tech executives at restaurants. He\u2019s even being assisted by an angel investor, Ronald Conway, so he\u2019ll have a good understanding of the business.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Stay tuned for more fun cartoons!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/exoplatform\/cartoon-of-the-week\/\" data-pin-do=\"embedBoard\" data-pin-scale-width=\"80\" data-pin-scale-height=\"200\" data-pin-board-width=\"400\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Follow eXo Platform&#8217;s board Cartoon of the Week on Pinterest.<\/a><!-- Please call pinit.js only once per page --><script src=\"\/\/assets.pinterest.com\/js\/pinit.js\" async=\"\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kevin Durant, who was named the most valuable player in the NBA finals, is taking a shot at cloud computing. The Golden State Warriors star is adding a tech startup to his investment portfolio and serving as a board adviser for start-up Rubrik, providing advice on strategic marketing initiatives. \u2018It&#8217;s a perfect opportunity\u2019 in the [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":13843,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":[],"categories":[813],"tags":[606,817],"lang":"en","translations":{"en":13842},"pll_sync_post":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13842"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}