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For the 40m investment, I wonder how much profit they make. They seem to have a very large staff.
by points 16y ago
For the 40m investment, I wonder how much profit they make. They seem to have a very large staff.
- potatolicious 16y agoI have questions about what they're doing with all that staff, especially now that it's become apparent that Reddit is doing similar (if not larger) numbers with a handful of guys (literally, countable on one hand). Evidently Digg is better at the monetization game than Reddit has been, so more sales staff I can understand... but devs?
- Devilboy 16y agoI can understand that Digg needs more people than Reddit (even though their traffic numbers are about the same) but TEN TIMES more people? That's just not sensible. I'm sure Digg can make a nice profit without further growth if they just got rid of about half their staff.
- pavs 16y agoI wonder if its easier to get funding (and later position yourself to get sold out), if you show that you have quite a few people working for you. Personally I have no idea nor do I see any reason for that many people working for digg, but my understanding is that Digg (or rather Kevin Rose) has always been about having the perception of big without actually being that big.
- squidsoup 16y agoFake it until you break it?
- dasil003 16y agoYou know what's even better? Having the perception that you are big but without actually hiring 100 fucking people to do it. I mean if that's what you need to impress investors at a cocktail party, you're a pretty sad entrepreneur.
- pavs 16y agoI agree, I don't think highly of kevin as an entrepreneur.