Digg failed; he threw his employees under the bus.
He went to form milk, that failed and he took money from people. Oink failed.
He got acquired to work on G+, very quickly after got booted to Google Ventures - and apparently didn't do too well there.
A lot of people have put him out there in good faith, figuring he was not a one-trick-pony - and that he had more in him, yet, now, we are talking about how he failed at investing in a runaway success.
So, really, why? This guy is like the valley's version of Kim Kardashian where Digg was his sex tape.
Look - I appreciate that he has done well for himself. But he has not created anything amazing, nor done amazingly well for others.
After all this, his best accomplishment is interviewing Musk, perhaps.
Its a waste of energy. let me know when Kevin really innovates.
Yes, it did. It had been starting to fail for some time though, and they tried to reinvent it. It didn't work. It was mismanaged, but you see this thing all the time. Hell, Microsoft is doing it with Windows 8 right now. It's hard to know how something will go until you try it.
He went to form milk, that failed and he took money from people.
Milk was acquired my Google, how is that "failing"?
Oink failed.
Oink did well but not well enough. The initial plan was to "fail quickly", and they did.
He got acquired to work on G+, very quickly after got booted to Google Ventures - and apparently didn't do too well there.
I don't know anything about this, so I will not comment. But as far as I know Kevin is still doing just fine at Google Ventures. Why do you use the term "got booted"?
I mostly take issue with your post because of the overtly negative tone, and not providing a single source for your claims. I used to see Kevin as a bit of a schmuck, but I think he's turned into somebody to watch now rather than somebody who just got lucky. He picks companies well, and I think he's in the perfect spot right now.
Digg created social news. The company ultimately failed because of some missteps, but the concept is still thriving on the Web today and can be seen with Likes, Retweets, Upvotes, and others. Digg Labs was cool, they had a great API, and while I'm not going to claim it was the first website to feature this, it was at least the first time I'd ever seen a website with an RSS feed of search result pages. Getting an RSS feed (when feed readers were cool) for any search query you wanted to amazing as it allowed you to follow any topic you wanted to.
Overall, the early execution of Digg was brilliant. They just thought too big.
Maybe fail is too harsh a term. But my poin being that the idea that Kevin is some sort of visionary worthy of the level of hype he gets is clearly a delusion.
Digg was great early on, and very quickly became muddled and ruined. To the point where it died completely and was sold for practically nothing.
Overall, it's all pointless to keep saying "hey! Look what Kevin's doing now!"
He went to form milk, that failed and he took money from people. Oink failed.
He got acquired to work on G+, very quickly after got booted to Google Ventures - and apparently didn't do too well there.
A lot of people have put him out there in good faith, figuring he was not a one-trick-pony - and that he had more in him, yet, now, we are talking about how he failed at investing in a runaway success.
So, really, why? This guy is like the valley's version of Kim Kardashian where Digg was his sex tape.
Look - I appreciate that he has done well for himself. But he has not created anything amazing, nor done amazingly well for others.
After all this, his best accomplishment is interviewing Musk, perhaps.
Its a waste of energy. let me know when Kevin really innovates.