Kevin launched digg on a $99-per-month server + $700 for development cost

“I was sitting around thinking about how this would play out,” Rose says. “My background in school is in computer science. I wrote a scoping document to a friend, who is a developer. The friend said it would take two or three weeks to create and cost 700 bucks, so I said, ‘Let’s go for it.’”

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