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Digg failed because its community became toxic while Reddit successfully evolved
“That was part of his success, but I think that that group of individuals actually became pretty trollish, quite honestly, by the end of it, and navigating how to succeed through that was very hard for Digg and for Kevin, and you watched someone like a Reddit c…”
Gary Liu predicts Digg will become a default app by 2021
“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.”
Digg's 2010 decline was caused by the disastrous Version 4 launch
“It really was Dig version four. That was a launch in the summer of twenty-ten. Where Dig effectively fundamentally changed as a product. It wasn't just a user experience change. It wasn't just a branding change. It was the functionality and it was the kind of …”
Matt Williams: Digg turnaround needed fresh outside talent sooner after v4 launch
“That probably would have more quickly brought in some additional talent that that, that hadn't kind of lived through the pain of, you know, kind of the V four launch and brought in new blood more, kind of more quickly to really help not only carry new perspect…”
Matt Williams laid off 40% of Digg staff in his first six weeks
“It was a really hard, you know, kind of first six weeks, which included laying off about 40% of the staff”
Maples: Kevin Rose launched Digg for $1,500 over a weekend
“Kevin Rose had started Digg for 1500 dollars over a weekend, and so there's no technical risk there.”
Digg was dismantled and sold to Washington Post, LinkedIn, and Betaworks
“At the end of 2012, what happened was that Dig was really split apart into kind of three different deals. The first was that a lot of the folks, the people, and the tech went to Washington Post, and then the second was that a bunch of the patents went to Linke…”
Matt Williams: Digg reached over 40 million monthly unique visitors at peak
“It was, in fact, one of the top, I think, three traffic news websites at one time in its history with forty-plus million monthly unique visitors”
Brian Wong Graduated College at 18 and Launched Digg's Android App
“He skipped four grades in school and graduated university at just 18, at which point he moved to the States on his own, and within months Was working alongside tech legends Kevin Rose and Jay Adelson at Dig, where he launched their Android mobile app.”