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Digg Co-Founders Take $1 million for Rev3

Tags: Revision3 + Jay Adelson + Kevin + Rose + Marc Andreessen + Greylock Partners + DiggNation

Kevom
Posted by Kevom 2 years 13 days ago; via mashable.com/2006/09/25/d...

Revving up the hype even further, the cofounders of the social news site Digg have raised $1 million in financing from Marc Andreessen and Greylock Partners. But the money isn’t for Digg: it’s for Revision3, their video podcasting service that includes the popular podcast DiggNation. Digg co-founder Jay Adelson says DiggNation is already making between $50,000 and $100,000 per month, and the money will allow them to assemble an ad sales team, rent an office and pay regular contributors.

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Digg CEO: Jay Adelson

Tags: Jay Adelson + Digg + CEO + Equinix

Rasti
Posted by Rasti 2 years 1 month ago; via venturevoice.com/2006/08/...

While founder Kevin Rose has gotten a lot of attention including a recent cover of BusinessWeek, CEO Jay Adelson has been guiding Digg toward business success. This isn’t Jay’s first time though the throes of entrepreneurship. He started Equinix, a company that now has a market capitalization of $1.5 billion. Despite its success, Jay didn’t make much money because he held his shares until after the dot com bust. In fact, he had just enough money to put his kids through college and live a more modest lifestyle himself. He was ready to go...

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