{"id":76623,"date":"2011-08-10T08:30:05","date_gmt":"2011-08-10T08:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rb.dev.caspianmedia.com\/uncategorized\/2011\/08\/10\/robert-stiff\/"},"modified":"2018-09-17T15:44:51","modified_gmt":"2018-09-17T14:44:51","slug":"robert-stiff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/realbusiness.co.uk\/robert-stiff","title":{"rendered":"Robert Stiff"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"booster-block booster-read-block\"><\/div><p class=\"article__image\">\n<\/p><p><strong>Name<\/strong>: Robert Stiff<\/p>\n<p><strong>Age<\/strong>: 51<\/p>\n<p><strong>Company<\/strong>: Team24<\/p>\n<p><strong>Turnover<\/strong>:  &pound;33m<\/p>\n<p><strong>First job<\/strong>: Soldier in the British Army<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dream job<\/strong>: Diplomat<\/p>\n<p><strong>Car<\/strong>: Porsche&nbsp;Turbo<\/p>\n<p><strong>Economy, business or first class<\/strong>: Business<\/p>\n<p><strong>Most extravagant purchase<\/strong>: Has to be the Porsche Turbo. I&rsquo;ve just returned from shark diving off Seal Island in South Africa, which was expensive although outlandish rather than extravagant is probably the right word!&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Most played song on your iPod<\/strong>: &ldquo;Heaven&rdquo; by&nbsp;Emeli Sande.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Best business book<\/strong>: <em>Wired for Thought<\/em> by Jeffrey M Stibel.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Worst business moment<\/strong>: Haven?t had one but there have been some close encounters. A fire broke out on the high street with many neighbouring businesses burning down. We had very limited back-up systems. It was a warning that our disaster recovery could be better I immediately initiated a cloud-based system.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Proudest business moment<\/strong>: Starting and self funding the business in 2005 and then selling it for  &pound;25m six years later (in May 2011).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Your business mentor<\/strong>: My father, the renowned military author Peter Stiff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Team24 founder Robert Stiff on diving with sharks and his military roots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2802,"featured_media":76624,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2011,11014],"tags":[2024],"class_list":["post-76623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hr-and-management","category-interviews","tag-interviews"],"views":983,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/realbusiness.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/realbusiness.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/realbusiness.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/realbusiness.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2802"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/realbusiness.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/realbusiness.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/realbusiness.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/realbusiness.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/realbusiness.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/realbusiness.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}