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
I 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.
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