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every year anyone Harry Stebbings 63Kevin Rose 4David Sze 4Mike Maples 2Brian Wong 2Roxanne Varza 1Jason Calacanis 1James Borow 1Gary Vaynerchuk 1Gary Liu 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Digg comes up
Mike Maples: Lessons from SVB; Crisis Management Tips; USD's Status as the Reserve Currency | E993 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 39:15 Mike Maples What we realized was that at the other end of the spectrum, you have market risk, and so Kevin Rose had started Digg for 1500 dollars over a weekend, and so there's no technical risk there. 2 times in the scene
Gary Vee: My First 3 Angel Investments; Why I Changed My Mind on Facebook Video | 20VC #899 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:41 Gary Vaynerchuk I started becoming friendly with Kevin Rose, uh, who was the founder of dig.com and was now very big in web three with Moonbirds.
20VC: Greylock's David Sze on His Biggest Lessons Working with Mark Zuckerberg and Reid Hoffman, The Rise of Pre-Emptive Rounds, How To Think Through Price Discipline Today and How Truly Strong Venture Partnerships Function
20VC: Jason Calacanis on The 4 Questions Investors Must Ask Founders, Whether YC Have Scaled Their Process Successfully & Why Early Founder Liquidity Is Good Not Bad
- ▶ 17:35 Jason Calacanis So 10 years ago, Flickr got sold for twenty million bucks, Delicious for 15 or twenty million dollars, and Dig, and everybody was just selling for tens of millions of dollars.
20VC: Kevin Rose on Putting The Entire Fund Into Uber, The Future For Mobile & Whether Angels Should Have Super Pro-Rata Rights?
- ▶ 0:37 Harry Stebbings As for Kevin, he's a serial entrepreneur, best known for founding Dig and Revision Three.
- ▶ 3:06 Kevin Rose So 2005, maybe early 2006, when dig was a year and a half, two years old.
- ▶ 30:04 Kevin Rose Also, Ben Horowitz, when I was going through a lot of the dig layoffs and the kind of transition and the hard times at dig, you know, I would sit down with him in his office and he would 3 times in the scene
20VC: Digg CEO, Gary Liu on The Rebirth Of Digg & The Evolution Of Content
- ▶ 0:09 Harry Stebbings Gary is an exceptional operator, and he's recently been named the new CEO at the infamous Dig, the platform that allows users to find, read, and share the most talked about stories on the internet. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:30 Harry Stebbings I've been a big fan of Dig since I think the days of Kevin and Jay. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:17 Harry Stebbings And then having worked at tech titans like Google and Spotify, what principles did you really take away and adapt to your process now at Dig? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:15 Harry Stebbings And then moving to Dig now, and obviously a darling of the internet at one point, and then not so much, as you said, you slightly migrated to Reddit. 22 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:41 Harry Stebbings Dig will retain and actually gain back some of the followers and readers that it potentially lost in this down period? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:50 Gary Liu Is what we call Dig Dialogue.
- ▶ 18:27 Harry Stebbings So, how does a platform like Dig plan to monetize content with the ever-disappearing ad dollar? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:00 Harry Stebbings See, I dig. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:56 Harry Stebbings What a fantastic episode that was, and absolutely brilliant to hear his career at Spotify, at Google, and the lessons learned, and how he plans to regenerate Dig into the incredible company that it once was, and will be in the future.
20 VC FF 018: Brian Wong, Founder @ Kiip on Raising $30m in VC Funding by 24
- ▶ 0:29 Harry Stebbings Was working alongside tech legends Kevin Rose and Jay Adelson at Dig, where he launched their Android mobile app.
- ▶ 4:07 Brian Wong Uh, two grades in elementary school, two grades in high school, uh, and then I ended up moving down to Silicon Valley to work for another company called Dig, uh, D-I-G-G dot com. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:48 Harry Stebbings And I have to ask, as a huge fan of Kevin Rose's myself, what was it like working with such an amazing founder like Kevin and like Jay when you were at Dig, and what were your biggest takeaways from that experience pre-Keep? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:25 Harry Stebbings And now moving to your, your time with Keep, you went from Dig to Keep straight away. 2 times in the scene
FF 013: 'Make Bets And Believe In What You Are Doing' with James Borow @ Shift & Brand Networks
- ▶ 7:44 James Borow Facebook, when they featured, uh, the Connect platform, uh, they would feature it with, you know, they would talk about, I think at the time, Dig, and HuffPo, and CNN Money, and Girls Guide, too.
20 VC 061: Roxanne Varza on Pitching A VC in 10 Minutes and Maximising Media Exposure For Your Startup
- ▶ 28:15 Roxanne Varza I have so many, um, but actually I would say that what I do, uh, which tends to work well for me, it's the Dig product, news.me.