{"id":353450,"date":"2013-10-15T15:30:41","date_gmt":"2013-10-15T13:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2013.capetown.wordcamp.org\/?p=353450"},"modified":"2013-10-14T15:26:17","modified_gmt":"2013-10-14T13:26:17","slug":"speaker-spotlight-adii-pienaar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2013\/speaker-spotlight-adii-pienaar\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker Spotlight: Adii Pienaar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Adii Pienaar is an entrepreneur, husband and very new father; the combination of these roles resulting in an epic &amp; challenging journey. Unlike the bio\u2019s of most \u201cserial\u201d entrepreneurs, Adii is\u00a0<em>(as at the time of this going to press)<\/em>\u00a0a one-hit wonder with his role as co-founder of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/woothemes.com\/\">WooThemes<\/a>. That status isn&#8217;t for a lack of trying either; it\u2019s just that the other attempts lost more money than it made&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/2013.capetown.wordcamp.org\/files\/2013\/10\/adii.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-382314\" alt=\"adii\" src=\"https:\/\/2013.capetown.wordcamp.org\/files\/2013\/10\/adii-199x300.jpg\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2013\/files\/2013\/10\/adii-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2013\/files\/2013\/10\/adii-681x1024.jpg 681w, https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2013\/files\/2013\/10\/adii-624x937.jpg 624w, https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2013\/files\/2013\/10\/adii.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a>Adii is a bit of a rebel at heart (in his previous online iteration, he dubbed himself as \u201cAdii Rockstar\u201d) and absolutely loves a challenge. His latest, professional challenge is getting rid of the \u201cone-hit wonder\u201d moniker and move to the higher echelons of serial entrepreneurship. As such, you&#8217;ll always find Adii dabbling in the odd side-project (like\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/therockstarfoundation.com\/\">The Rockstar Foundation<\/a>), advising \/ mentoring other startup founders or getting his toes wet in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/angel.co\/adii-pienaar\">angel investing<\/a>. He further harbours the dream of being an A-list blogger and has even tried to augment that reputation by publishing his debut book,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/rockstarbusiness.com\/\">Rockstar Business<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Adii believes that there is a fine balance between ambition, working hard and spending time on the important things in life. As a result, he has recently realized that he actually wants to work less \u2013 instead of more \u2013 without having to compromise on his goals &amp; ambitions in life. Add all of these ingredients into one life and you find yourself watching a startup- \/ entrepreneurs-version of\u00a0<em>The Bold &amp; The Beautiful<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adii Pienaar is an entrepreneur, husband and very new father; the combination of these roles resulting in an epic &amp; challenging journey. Unlike the bio\u2019s of most \u201cserial\u201d entrepreneurs, Adii is\u00a0(as at the time of this going to press)\u00a0a one-hit wonder with his role as co-founder of\u00a0WooThemes. That status isn&#8217;t for a lack of trying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9355949,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-353450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-speakers"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pPMj-1tWO","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9355949"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353450"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":385902,"href":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353450\/revisions\/385902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}