Finally someone who agrees with me. I used to have a little mantra when I was there - "For digg to grow, Kevin's got to go."

I'll agree with that. But, why does (did?) digg have to grow? I was a dedicated user for the two first years and loved it. There was no better place to get general sci/tech/computer news. I kinda feel like no aggregator stepped in and gave those initials digg users a substitute once the site moved away from news in those areas.

$40 million in VC money.

And Kevin left and had not been at Digg for more than a year and yet nothing spectacular happened.