What Does Rafat Ali Read?

Rafat: Founder Of Paid Content & Skift *

Rafat was born in India.

• He started Paid Content, ran it, and sold it to Guardian.
• He started Skift in 2012.
• He is outspoken about ills impacting media industry.

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• Know about business of travel.
• Understand the trend lines and real issues around travel.
• Attend the conferences where who is who of travel come.

Books he is reading: From his Twitter Feed & Goodreads

• Exit big: Writes Bo Burlingham, “Sooner or later, all businesses get sold, given away, or liquidated. Whatever your preferred outcome, if you start planning for it while you still have time and options, you can build a stronger, more resilient company with a higher market value.”
• Great at Work: How Top Performers Do Less, Work Better, and Achieve More.
• Bloodsport: It is the story of how the mania for corporate deals and mergers all began.
• Books he has read in 2018.

Books read this year

• His goal is to read 4 books a month: His reading list for March.

Reading list

*He is one of the media operators I look up to. Respect.

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