Kevin Rose
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Robert Kevin Rose (born February 21, 1977) is an American Internet entrepreneur who co-founded Revision3, Digg, Pownce, and Milk.
He also served as production assistant and co-host at TechTV's The Screen Savers.
From 2012 to 2015, he was a venture partner at GV.
Early life
Rose was born in California and lived in Oregon before his family moved to Las Vegas, Nevada, where he spent most of his childhood. He became an Eagle Scout with the Boy Scouts of America.
Education
Rose transferred to Southeast Career Technical Academy for high school (formerly known as Vo-Tech High School) in Las Vegas in 1992. He then attended the University of Nevada Las Vegas, majored in computer science but dropped out in 1998.
Personal life
In 2013, he married Darya Pino.
Career
Rose worked for two dot-com startups through CMGI.
Rose was recruited as a production assistant for The Screen Savers. He appeared on-air in "Dark Tip" segments and Unscrewed with Martin Sargent, where he gave details on computing operations. When Leo Laporte left TechTV on March 31, 2004, he became a regular co-host. On March 25, 2004, Comcast's G4 gaming channel announced a merger with TechTV, resulting in a round of layoffs. Rose stayed with G4 in Los Angeles. On May 22, 2005, Rose signed a deal with G4 that ended his employment and launched Systm and later, Revision3, where he co-hosted Diggnation with Alex Albrecht for six years.
Kevin Rose appeared on the first episode of R&D TV with Diggnation co-host Alex Albrecht. He appeared on Gigaom's NewTeeVee Live on November 14, 2007. Rose, along with fellow Diggnation host Alex Albrecht, appeared on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon on March 11, 2009, April 16, 2010, and November 28, 2011.
Rose started podcasting on July 24, 2003, with the introduction of the first episode of thebroken while he was still working on TechTV's The Screen Savers. In April 2005, Rose and David Prager formed Revision3 in Los Angeles, California, with Jay Adelson and David Prager. On July 1, 2005, Rose and Alex Albrecht launched Diggnation, a weekly podcast that summarizes top stories submitted by Digg followers. Alex and Kevin announced on October 3, 2011 that they would no longer be showing the weekly Diggnation show at the end of the year. On December 30, 2011, The Music Box in Los Angeles, California, taped the final show.
Rose and Tim Ferriss began recording The Random Show in 2009.
Digg, a technology link website, was founded by Rose, Owen Byrne, Ron Gorodetzky, and Jay Adelson in 2004. On December 5, 2004, the website was officially launched. He was named in 2007 by MIT Technology Review TR35 as one of the top 35 innovators in the world under the age of 35. Fox InteractiveMedia Group's (equivalent to $80.7 million in 2021) for Digg in 2006, but the Digg board rejected it due to the brand's increasing success. CEO Rose lost interest in helping the site maintain its expansion over the next four years, focusing on a number of non-Digg outside services; the board eventually replaced him as CEO on September 1, 2010. Rose continued to work at Digg until 2011, when he resigned from all operational duties but kept his presence on the board of directors; Betaworks acquired Digg in 2012 for $0.5 million (equivalent to $0.6 million in 2021).
Rose launched Pownce, a micro-blogging website that was acquired on December 1, 2008 and closed down on December 15, 2008 by blogging company Six Apart. The founding of "Milk" was revealed in April 2011 on techblog TechCrunch. The company is focusing on smartphone applications. Oink, a tool for evaluating real-world objects, was the first application to be launched. Milk, Inc. reported in March 2012 that it would no longer be available for its sole product, Oink.
Since closing down Milk and leaving off the remaining team members, Rose announced on March 16, 2012, he and the four others of the Milk team (Daniel Burka, Chris Hutchins, and Joshua Lane). On March 19, 2012, Kevin Rose began his first day as a Google senior product manager. Rose had left the Google+ team to become a venture partner at GV on May 30, according to AllThingsD. Rose said in January 2015 that he would leave GV to concentrate on his new app development lab - North.
Rose invested in Gowalla, Twitter, Foursquare, Dailybooth, ngmoco, SimpleGeo, 3crowd, OMGPOP, Square, Facebook, Chomp, and Formspring.
Rose created Watchville, a news aggregation software that specialized on wristwatches after deleting Google. In July 2015, after Watchville merged with another watch-enthusiast web site, Hodinkee, Rose moved to New York City to become Hodinkee's chief executive.
Rose resigned from his position as Hodinkee CEO in April 2017 to become a partner in a start-up venture firm called True Ventures.
In Tim Ferriss' book Tools of Titans, Rose has a chapter giving tips.