Rafat Ali
Media & Entertainment
Rafat Ali’s Skift Buys Travel Site Gadling From AOL For ‘Way Under $10M’
9:44 am PDT • June 12, 2014
AOL today made its latest move in offloading assets that it no longer sees as core to its main business: it sold the travel site Gadling.com to Skift, the travel news portal started…
Startups
PaidContent Founder Rafat Ali Raises Another $1.1M For Skift, His Site For Travel News And Data
6:01 am PDT • May 15, 2013
Skift, the travel industry-focused site that was launched in July 2012 by PaidContent founder Rafat Ali and Jason Clampet (who previously ran content and editorial partnerships at Frommers.com), is announcing today…
Rafat Ali, founder of paidContent, sold his company to The Guardian for roughly $12.5 millionin 2008. Then he spent two years traveling the world, in a “quest for isolation after eight clamorous years.”…
