The First Five Years
I 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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Comments (15)
Jun 13, 2007 2:32 AM
Congrats, Rafat! Impressive for just five years.
Jun 13, 2007 3:16 AM
Congrats on both the 5 years and the green card! I got mine last year through marriage…
Jun 13, 2007 6:39 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
Jun 13, 2007 10:09 AM
Indeed, congrats on all accomplishments!
Jun 13, 2007 10:14 AM
Well done - Paid Content has really become a great source of info for anyone working in media, technology, marketing and more…
Jun 13, 2007 10:35 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…
Jun 13, 2007 10:36 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.
Jun 13, 2007 10:58 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
Jun 13, 2007 12:23 PM
Congrats Mr. Rafat !
Jiren Chhapia,
Yadit Technologies Inc., India
Jun 13, 2007 2:07 PM
Twofold congrats, Rafat! You have a great thing going here and I wish you the same growth and success in the coming years!
Jun 13, 2007 5:35 PM
Congrats, wishing you even more success in the next 5, 50, 500 years!
Lagey raho Rafat bhai!
Jun 13, 2007 6:18 PM
The Tick-tock, huh? Never would have thought that would be a place of inspiration… Congrats!
Jun 14, 2007 10:51 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..?
Jun 15, 2007 3:10 AM
congrats! i naturalized in 1985 i was with my parents so i didnt have to do anything. congrats on your 5 yrs too!
Jun 17, 2007 2:03 PM
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.