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Name: Jay S. Adelson
Age: 40 (b. 1970)
Industries: Internet
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Chief Executive Officer: Digg, Inc.
Jay Adelson is a co-founder and current Chief Executive Officer of Digg, Inc, the social bookmarking website. Along with Kevin Rose, Owen Byrne and Ron Gorodetzky, Digg launched in December 2004. Adelson is also chairman of Revision3. Prior, he was the founder and chief technology officer of Equinix, Inc. In addition, Adelson helped engineer Netcom, the first ISP in the United States and worked at DEC research lab in Palo Alto to build PAIX. Adelson holds degrees in Computer Science and Film and
Jay Adelson is a co-founder and current Chief Executive Officer of Digg, Inc, the social bookmarking website. Along with Kevin Rose, Owen Byrne and Ron Gorodetzky, Digg launched in December 2004.

Adelson is also chairman of Revision3. Prior, he was the founder and chief technology officer of Equinix, Inc. In addition, Adelson helped engineer Netcom, the first ISP in the United States and worked at DEC research lab in Palo Alto to build PAIX.

Adelson holds degrees in Computer Science and Film and Broadcasting from Boston University.
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1203714 3/9/10:
Server Room
A few days ago, Jay Adelson, chief executive officer of San Francisco-based social media company, Digg, told me that his company now has hundreds of servers. And the size of its infrastructure was continuing to grow with its usage. And that is after the company has started to maximize its CPU usage ... - read more at GigaOM
tags: Google  Microsoft  Digg  Facebook 
1044861 2/8/10:
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Are you a budding Web entrepreneur who would like some pointers or advice from seasoned company founders? MayField Fund and First Round CapitalCapital are sponsoring a raffle to give away mentoring sessions with the founders of Digg (Jay Adelson), Flickr (Caterina Fake), Mint (Aaron Patzer), Ning (Gina Bianchini), ... - read more at TechCrunch
1033358 2/5/10:
Digg EBITDA Profitable In 2009 (MSFT, GOOG)
According to Tim Sykes, of Wall Street Warriors and Trader Monthly fame, Digg.com was EBITDA profitable in 2009. Digg CEO, Jay Adelson, informed Tim of this important development yesterday. Wikipedia describes Digg as “a social news website made for people to discover and share content from anywhere ... - read more at Benzinga
1013339 2/3/10:
Digg's MySpace Problem — and What It's Doing About It
There's a lot of talk about tech IPO candidates lately. Conspicuously missing from those lists is San Francisco-based news aggregator and longtime media darling Digg. Once reportedly courted by Google in 2008, five-year-old Digg has been elbowed out of the spotlight by six-year-old Facebook and three-year-old ... - read more at Private Equity Hub - complete feed
1012810 2/2/10:
Content distribution startup 3crowd wants to shake up online ...
The un-profitability of video sites has become a cliche — high infrastructure costs and advertising challenges have combined in a way that even ostensible winners, like YouTube, can't necessarily make the finances work (though Google keeps saying that YouTube will be profitable real soon). On ... - read more at VentureBeat
tags: Google  YouTube  Digg  Kevin Rose 
802665 11/30/09:
Exclusive: Digg Steals A Google Exec As New VP Product
Digg has poached Keval Desai away from Google as their new Vice President of Product, we've confirmed from the company. Desai's last day at Google is today. Desai is a long time Google employee, first joining the company in 2003. He's currently their Director of Product Management and has led development ... - read more at TechCrunch
785446 11/21/09:
What wowed the crowd at Web 2.0 Expo
The man behind #swineflu and #HowBlackAreYou was the hit this year's New York webfest Baratunde Thurston. Image: O'Reilly Media This has nothing in particular to do with Apple (AAPL), but it's very 2.0. We spent much of last week at a conference in New York City called Web 2.0 Expo — a celebration ... - read more at Apple 2.0 (Fortune blogs)
782158 11/20/09:
Neal Rodriguez: Digg Founder and President Advise Entrepreneurs ...
I filmed Kevin Rose and Jay Adelson discussing new and concept features on which the company is working. They included some tips on how start-ups can execute a solid web marketing campaign speaking before the Web 2.0 Expo audience which comprised many entrepreneurs. Rose repeated the act of seeding ... - read more at Huffington Post
tags: Digg  Kevin Rose 
774582 11/18/09:
peHUB First Read
* Carl Icahn is buying up MGM bonds “like a bat out of hell.” * Someone in Yale's endowment office needs to take an undergraduate math course. * FT blares headline that Apollo Management is planning an IPO. Not too surprising (we even hinted at it in this space last week), but FT does give ... - read more at Private Equity Hub - complete feed
774524 11/18/09:
Digg CEO Adelson:I Don't Think People Expect To Pay For News
This afternoon Digg CEO Jay Adelson was interviewed on Fox Business News, where he spoke about the future of Digg and the ways it could potentially cooperate with strugging news organizations. - read more at Digg - Tech news
tags: Digg 
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