Here’s another story of “one guy” operating out of the mythical garage, i.e. today that means a blog site. Now he’s one of the hotspots of the online media world…
"He is a genius," proclaims Henry Copeland, founder of Blogads, a company that sells Web log advertising. "Everybody knows about Rafat Ali and bangs on his door to advertise with him." The fact of the matter is that in the broadband Internet world, Ali can stand alongside a Time Warner or a News Corp. and feel his power. His is an achievement that could not have been possible before the advent of inexpensive Web logging software in 2001.
Now, on the connection between media, technology, and finance, the topics paidContent covers every hour of every day, the self-effacing Ali is both a news breaker and a trusted source. Industry players around the globe regard him as a veritable new-age magnate. Ali, for his part, is modest about his rise, as befits his upbringing in a small university town in India.
