Digg's v4 launch: an optimism born of necessity (2018)
Coincidentally, I&#x27;ve been going through Digg&#x27;s history including v4 and their early history, because it&#x27;s nostalgic for me.<p>What people don&#x27;t realize is Digg actually had four founders, depending on how you count them. Owen Byrne[0] has as his bio &quot;The person who built digg for $1000 @ $10&#x2F;hour, lol&quot;. Going by that, I don&#x27;t think he shared in any equity.<p>The whole site was bootstrapped for apparently $6000 total.<p>People also think Digg turned down Google&#x27;s $200 million offer, but it was the other way around. Google walked away after some due diligence.<p>Knowing all this, Digg&#x27;s fall seems kind of inevitable. That said Reddit never really filled that hole IMO.<p>0. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;owenbyrne" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;owenbyrne</a>