PaidContent founder Rafat Ali will leave ContentNext and Guardian News & Media at the beginning of July, the company said Friday.
Ali started paidContent as a blog in 2002, and later added three other sites, paidContent.uk, mocoNews and contentSutra, before the business was purchased by Guardian News & Media in 2008.
In a statement on the site, Ali said:
"After pouring exactly eight years of my life and a lifetime into this, I am leaving ContentNext and paidContent in early July. I will continue to advise the company for the rest of the year.
"For most of you who know me, this isn’t coming as a huge surprise.