As a member of the paidContent team who wasn’t mentioned in Jon Friedman’s MarketWatch piece about Rafat’s prognosis for Yahoo and, well, our site, I’d just like to recommend it to those who want to know a bit more about this site’s humble origins and how Rafat, Staci and James built it up to the zero-billion-dollar business it is today. Friedman likens “wunderkind” Rafat and “relentless” Staci to Batman and Robin. I’m too overextended today to execute the obvious Photoshop joke, but here are some of the pieces you might need to pull it off: 1, 2, 3.
And as for the “rags to riches” part of the story, we’re all doing OK, but I’m sure I speak for both Rafat and Staci when I ask, Hey, where are those riches?
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