Gary Liu predicts Digg will become a default app by 2021
Gary Liu · 20VC: Digg CEO, Gary Liu on The Rebirth Of Digg & The Evolution Of Content · Feb 26, 2016 · at 26:33
Digg CEO Gary Liu outlines his five-year strategic goal for Digg on 20VC, defining a 'stutter step' app as a user's default go-to application when idling between tasks.
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“And we think that if we get best kind of discovery and best conversation and we find the intersection between those two, then it can become that stutter step app. And that's where we want to be in five years.”
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