{"id":8553,"date":"2015-05-01T14:34:55","date_gmt":"2015-05-01T18:34:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/?p=8553"},"modified":"2015-05-01T14:34:55","modified_gmt":"2015-05-01T18:34:55","slug":"benefiel-08-co-founder-of-metergenius","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2015\/05\/01\/benefiel-08-co-founder-of-metergenius\/","title":{"rendered":"Benefiel \u201908 &#8212; co-founder of MeterGenius"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/05\/ty-benefiel.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-8554\" alt=\"ty benefiel\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/05\/ty-benefiel-291x300.jpg\" width=\"189\" height=\"195\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/05\/ty-benefiel-291x300.jpg 291w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/05\/ty-benefiel-996x1024.jpg 996w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 189px) 100vw, 189px\" \/><\/a>Ty Benefiel \u201908<\/strong> is Co-founder and President of <strong>MeterGenius<\/strong>, started with four Northwestern University Kellogg classmates in 2013.\u00a0 It is a free website and mobile app that helps residential users engage with and lower their electricity usage.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/ideamensch.com\/ty-benefiel\/\">Click here<\/a> to read an interview with Ty.<\/p>\n<p>After Wabash, Ty worked at Angie\u2019s List.\u00a0 He went on to earn an MBA in Marketing and Entrepreneurship at Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations, Ty!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo courtesy of<\/em><br \/>\n<em> <a href=\"https:\/\/metergenius.com\/company\">MeterGenius<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ty Benefiel \u201908 is Co-founder and President of MeterGenius, started with four Northwestern University Kellogg classmates in 2013.\u00a0 It is a free website and mobile app that helps residential users engage with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"w_featured_image_url":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/05\/ty-benefiel-996x1024.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8553"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8555,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8553\/revisions\/8555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}