Internet History Podcast: Rafat Ali of PaidContent and Skift
Before Huffington Post, before TechCrunch, was PaidContent
Internet History Podcast: Rafat Ali of PaidContent and Skift launched on April 25, 2016 with 53 votes, #1,542 of 4,301 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 10 years on.
What it does
From Netscape To The iPad
I can’t be sure about this exactly, but I would hazard to say Rafat Ali is possibly patient zero when it comes to taking a blog and turning it into a real, 21st century media company. Before the Huffington Post, before TechCrunch, even, maybe, kind of, before Gawker, Rafat founded PaidContent in 2002. He later sold it to the Guardian Media Group in 2008. Today he is the CEO of Skift.com, a media vertical in the travel industry space. Rafat has such an amazing story: an immigrant’s story, an accidental entrepreneur’s story, and, basically, the first-hand story of how blogging morphed into “professional,” modern digital media. Your email address will not be…from internethistorypodcast.com
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