Digg’s Kevin Rose: “One Of Us Has To Leave”
Last summer we’d heard that the Digg board of directors was considering terminating Digg cofounder and CEO Jay Adelson. But everything was fine, said senior Digg employees, and the fact that the company moved Adelson out to California from New York at about that time was shown as evidence that the rumors were false. But one ominous conversation I had with Kevin Rose a couple of months later stuck with me. “One of us will leave the company,” he told me, venting some frustration he had with Jay.
And that frustration led Kevin to slowly withdraw from Digg. He hasn’t been seen regularly around the office “in about a year” says a source inside the company, and he had no specific job duties. Product had largely been taken over by Keval Desai, who joined the company from Google last November.
But Kevin’s and investor’s frustration over the direction of the company grew. V4 of Digg, which was supposed to launch in 2009, is only now being finalized. 
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