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[vaksel]

here is something that I always wondered about, did he ever offer you some equity in digg for all the work you did?

[ojbyrne → vaksel]

Of course. My bitching and moaning is entirely due to the fact that others at the company have been able to sell their equity at attractive prices, while simultaneously flushing the company down the toilet.

Would you like to buy some shares?

[paul7986 → ojbyrne]

Why are you so bitter Owen? Has that been discussed in another topic or post here?

[ojbyrne → paul7986]

It's mostly captured in the above comment. I'm not really all that bitter.

[paul7986 → ojbyrne]

OH well the story of Digg in the beginning included you and now your no longer there making the above comments.

Really none of my business, but what is your Digg story after... 20 something hires coder off of rent-a-coder site and becomes wildly successful?

[ojbyrne → paul7986]

I got a little press coverage recently (or more properly our team did): http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2009/02/27/tripadvis...

Also I'm going to be a keynote speaker at the Dutch PHP Conference in June: http://www.phpconference.nl/

Mostly working hard and getting paid very well at my day job, saving money, trying to unload my digg shares ;-)

And rent-a-coder wasn't involved in digg in any way. Nor really was elance. That's part of the mythology they dreamed up.