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The First Five Years

By Rafat Ali - Tue 12 Jun 2007 11:12 PM PST

imageI almost forgot about it until this evening...June 12th five years ago was when I launched this site, back when I was in NYC. Kinda anti-climactic today, as I was locked in a very vigorous four-hour board meeting today (along with our new board member Larry Kramer and others). Also coincidentally, last night is when I finally became a “lawful permanent resident” (not that I wasn’t before...was temporary)...in common lingo, I got my green card for U.S. I guess I can now run this company for another 10 years out of here. Oh well...all I can say is, five years...wow. We’re a full-fledged company with 19 more people besides me, three separate sites (fourth one coming), 16 mixers done, one big conference behind us, and another one coming in less than five months, and hungry for more. Thanks everyone for sticking around this long.
The pic: Tick Tock Diner in NYC, where I first thought of the idea of starting the site.

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15 Responses:
  • From Cory Tue 12 Jun 2007 11:32 PM

    Congrats, Rafat!  Impressive for just five years.

  • From jeremy liew Wed 13 Jun 2007 12:16 AM

    Congrats on both the 5 years and the green card! I got mine last year through marriage…

  • From vittorio zambardino Wed 13 Jun 2007 03:39 AM

    Congrats for your vision and good luck for the future. Your site has been incredibly helpful to me, it continues to be every morning I get the newsletter.
    Vittorio

  • From Nate Westheimer Wed 13 Jun 2007 07:09 AM

    Indeed, congrats on all accomplishments!

  • From David Wed 13 Jun 2007 07:14 AM

    Well done - Paid Content has really become a great source of info for anyone working in media, technology, marketing and more…

  • From Glenn Wed 13 Jun 2007 07:35 AM

    What a five-year run! Congratulations! You have raised the bar for this new form of online journalism. If only other sites were as thorough, informative and insightful…

  • From Raanan Bar-Cohen Wed 13 Jun 2007 07:36 AM

    Congrats Rafat !

    paidContent has been a must read for me for the past 5 years, and it’s great to see the tremendous growth and success that your team has achieved.

  • From ! Wed 13 Jun 2007 07:58 AM

    congrats.

    i only found your effort using a link provided @ lost remote. figuring if they thought you worthy enough to have you at the top of their blogroll it’d be worth a look.

    t’was.

    thanks

  • From Jiren Chhapia Wed 13 Jun 2007 09:23 AM

    Congrats Mr. Rafat !

    Jiren Chhapia,
    Yadit Technologies Inc., India

  • From Dave Chung Wed 13 Jun 2007 11:07 AM

    Twofold congrats, Rafat! You have a great thing going here and I wish you the same growth and success in the coming years!

  • From Sami Wed 13 Jun 2007 02:35 PM

    Congrats, wishing you even more success in the next 5, 50, 500 years!

    Lagey raho Rafat bhai!

  • From Charlie Wed 13 Jun 2007 03:18 PM

    The Tick-tock, huh?  Never would have thought that would be a place of inspiration… Congrats!

  • From Curius Thu 14 Jun 2007 07:51 PM

    Congratulations Rafat…

    I ‘m an entrpreneur and inspired to learn that H1B/GC thing did not slow you down..great work..!
    How did you do that..?

  • From irina slutsky Fri 15 Jun 2007 12:10 AM

    congrats! i naturalized in 1985 i was with my parents so i didnt have to do anything. congrats on your 5 yrs too!

  • From kris harikrishnan Sun 17 Jun 2007 11:03 AM

    Congratulations. You bring a good collection of media related tidbits which is very useful to people in a hurry and want to keep abreast of media developments.

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