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I interviewed with Digg in the early days (not sure you remember me but with you Owen) I think while finding big successes can be hard, dealing with them once
by alexbosworth 16y ago
I interviewed with Digg in the early days (not sure you remember me but with you Owen)
I think while finding big successes can be hard, dealing with them once you have them can be even harder.
Kevin was pretty quick to realize that Twitter/Facebook were going to eat Digg's chances of become a huge company, but it wasn't trivial to figure a response to that. It's a valid question: should Digg have even tried to grow grow grow or just been happy owning their area?
Engineering gripes I think were mostly focused on acquisition and investment attractiveness. There probably is also some elitism in the Valley: if you don't have the right pedigree and look the way that fits what people expect you don't deserve success
- eurohacker 16y agoyou say: Kevin was pretty quick to realize that Twitter/Facebook were going to eat Digg's chances of become a huge company. Then why Digg´s main competitor Reddit.com is growing like crazy these days ? its because Digg was managed badly ..
- cicloid 16y agoMaybe because their users are merging with previous Digg users? The ship is sinking really fast, after all...
- chris11 16y agoIMO Twitter/Facebook are not directly competing with digg. Digg was a news aggregator, Twitter/Facebook aren't.
- protomyth 16y agoI pretty much switch from Digg / RSS to twitter as a news aggregator once sufficient sites got twitter accounts to follow. I don't think I am a unique case.