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25 Jul 2008

Rafat AliMore from the "Adversity is a Mean Teacher" department. On Venture Voice Gregory Galant interviews paidContent.org's Rafat Ali, who talks about blogging from a one-room East London apartment in the early days to the sale of the company to the Guardian for a reported $30 million earlier this month.

This is the first of Galant's podcasts in awhile and it's nice to hear a new one.

(Photo by Rex Hammock)

Posted by Jack D. Lail on Friday, July 25, 2008 at 7:03 PM

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