[moonpolysoft]

What I find objectionable about the video is not his identification of team quality being the problem. It's his total abandonment of responsibility for it as a founder. That he'd say he just woke up one day surrounded by B and C players he hadn't interviewed makes it seem like everyone else was running amok and he is not to blame. Trashing the reputations of his ex-employees in order to save face on a tech show is irresponsible at best, and at worst a demonstration that he is unfit to lead a team of any size.

[ojbyrne]

Amen. Note that the reason Kevin was too busy to interview everyone is that he was busy doing side projects. In my opinion if you want to know what was wrong with digg, I'd start with

Revision3

Pownce

Wefollow

[zmmmmm]

Especially since in the period he talks about digg was somewhere between 30 - 75 employees. He speaks as if they had hundreds or thousands of employees, but having only ~50 employees and claiming that you don't know half of them is either completely not credible, or if you accept it as true, a huge abrogation of responsibility and personal indictment of his own behavior.

[danilocampos]

My completely uninformed assumption is that for an attention seeker like Rose, running around and doing things that get you more attention is probably a lot more fun and rewarding than the nitty, gritty details of managing a business.

[astrofinch]

And hey, maybe attention seeking is his core competency. Let's not be so hard on the guy.

[originalgeek]

The most telling part is he doesn't even have enough sense to recognize that blaming "them" only makes him look bad. I'll bet though there are plenty of "Bubble Boys" who just can't wait to lose money on his next venture.