Kevin Rose
Kevin Rose
Robert Kevin Roseis 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 2014, he was a venture partner at GV. He is also currently a board member for the Tony Hawk Foundation...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth21 February 1977
CityRedding, CA
CountryUnited States of America
business discovery ideas
Letting users control your site can be terrifying at first. From day one we were asking ourselves, "What is going to be on the front page today?" You have no idea what the system will produce. But stepping back and giving consumers control is what brought more and more people to the site. They have a sense of ownership and discovery at the same time. If you give users the tools to spread and share their interests with others, they will use them to promote what is important to them.
believe college ideas
Go build it. If you really believe in something, you should just build it. If you love it, it won’t feel like work. It’s okay to drop out of college if you have an awesome idea.
experience following huge remove section sections tech users
We have a huge tech following that do nothing but Digg tech stories, and then there's another pool of users that remove the tech section from their view of Digg, because you can go on and customize your own experience and remove sections you don't like.
background computer front geeky hit science stories studied
My background is in tech. I studied computer science, and was working on TechTV, so the first thing I wanted to do was see my favorite motherboard stories hit the front page; you know, like, really geeky stuff.
digging gathering means providing serve spreading third
Digg will serve as a means of gathering metrics for third party websites, providing them insights into who's digging their content, who they are spreading it to.
anyone express interest type wants web
We want to open digg up to just about anyone and everyone that wants to express their interest in any type of news story or Web content.
became breaking grew major share social twitter
Twitter became a major place to find out what was breaking on the Internet. Facebook became a place to share links. Social media really grew up.
At our peak, no one knew how to value Digg.
break crawl determine humans information machine mass relevance versus
One of the things that's been crazy for us has been the speed at which news can break on Digg, because it's powered by a mass of humans versus a machine that has to go out and crawl and find the information and then determine its relevance mathematically.
allow editor stories submit users
With Digg, users submit stories for review, but rather than allow an editor to decide which stories go on the homepage, the users do.
people
People want to have a voice and a say in what is news.
add consumer deals fits ton
I focus on consumer Internet. Sometimes it's a working prototype; sometimes it's an idea on a napkin. I don't do a ton of deals a year, and I really like working with startups - it's the only way I can invest. It fits my ADD brain.
investors
I want to be known as one of the most accurate investors that ever lived.
editors front handful masses
Digg is like your newspaper, but rather than a handful of editors determining what's on the front page, the masses do.