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Kevin Rose talks the history, legacy, and maybe future of Digg.

We also talked about the legacy of some of the tools he helped create, the death of the homepage and the rise of the news feed, and what happens when your company goes from a fun idea to a potential cash cow. We had this moment where our investors were like, “You need to clean up the site, and make it more profitable, because you’re gonna have a hard time raising future rounds of financing.” I think what Reddit did, in retrospect, that was quite smart was they kept the team relatively small and kind of let the market mature around them. I can be on a social network and get the craziest news around the Klotho protein and how it extends life and, at the same time, get wacky, crazy poodles jumping over plastic cups to the Zelda theme music — I have an account that does just that, which is amazing.

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