Kevin Rose
Kevin Rose is an entrepreneur, investor, and television personality who has been involved in the technology industry for many years. He is best known for co-founding the social news website Digg, which was one of the early pioneers of user-generated content and social media. Rose also co-founded the software development company Milk, and is currently a partner at the venture capital firm Google Ventures.
Rose began his career as a web designer and developer, but quickly became interested in the potential of the internet to connect people and share information. In 2004, he co-founded Digg, which allowed users to submit and vote on news stories, videos, and other content. The site quickly gained a large following and was considered to be one of the most popular and influential websites of its time.
In 2012, Digg was acquired by Betaworks, and Rose left the company to start a new venture, Milk. The company was focused on mobile software development, and created several popular apps such as Oink and TeuxDeux. In 2013, Milk was acquired by Google.
After working at Google for a short period, Rose joined Google Ventures, the venture capital arm of Google, as a venture partner. In this role, he helps identify and invest in promising technology startups. He also serves on the board of directors of several companies, including Focus@Will and Leaf.
Throughout his career, Rose has also been a frequent guest on technology-related television shows, and has a reputation as an expert in the industry. He is a guest Shark on ABC's Shark Tank, as well as a regular host on various tech-based podcast. He also has his own podcast, the ‘Foundation’ podcast, where he interviews Entrepreneurs and investors. This Interview with Elon Musk when he was just getting started with building Tesla was an early favorite of mine too. Rose has always been connected to the start up scene which allows him access to cutting edge people, for that reason his interviews are great.
Rose and Ferriss, long time friends, do a YouTube “series” they called the Random Show. The topics are Random, the Episode numbers are Random…but it was a couple buddies getting together talking shop, having a few drinks and catching up.
Below are two examples:
Latest 4 months ago
Earliest 13 years ago
What I find so cool about this is being able to see people grow up. both of these guys start as kids and are now middle age. The topics evolved right along with them. I have always found watching and listening to conversations fascinating, so stuff like this is right up my alley.
Have a good weekend,
Aaron