Jay Adelson's fireside chat on lessons of failure (video)

October 25, 2010 6:59 PM
Dean Takahashi
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Jay Adelson, the former chief executive of Digg, gave a post-mortem on his time at the pioneering social news network today at the FailCon conference in San Francisco.

He had plenty of lessons to offer about failure, but he said he had no regrets on his five-year tenure at Digg, as we wrote in our earlier story. He had no second thoughts about not selling the company when everyone else was urging him and founder Kevin Rose to do so. He also talked about his approach to being a CEO with his prior companies and how that stayed with him at Digg.

Here’s most of Adelson’s talk at FailCon.

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  • http://twitter.com/ros_jo Jordan

    First Comment (Like Please).

  • http://twitter.com/dnyabuti Dickens Nyabuti

    This sounds like a therapy session.Here is a link the TC article on the Digg layoffs that was brought up in the last question:http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/25/digg-to-lay-off-37-percentof-staff/

  • http://www.bigjobsboard.com Steve Jobs

    He did not actually failed Digg, he bought it up to such a huge success and the changes he made for the new version is right for the power users are getting too much powerful than Digg itself. It’s just saddening that the power users don’t want to change.

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