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Empirical results from digg.com (so far, based on public reports on techcrunch.com and from Sarah Lacy's book):

Idea (Kevin Rose): $3 million

Connections (especially VCs) (Jay Adelson): $2 million

Implementation (me): 0

But hey, as far as Kevin and Jay were concerned, I should have been happy to have a job.




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