On: Digg, Inc. Lays off 10% of Company Staff

[Super_Jambo]

So that means Digg employed over 100 people prior to this? With Reddit doing a similar job and they employing 7? Theories on what the extra 93 people are doing?

[alanstorm → Super_Jambo]

Infrastructure to support Digg's more aggressive media and business initiatives.

Digg also has to run its own administration infrastructure while Reedit gets the benefit of being a subsidiary of Conde Nast.

Plus, of course, Digg got more funding and you have to do something with all that money :)