The Best Lessons From Kevin Rose

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By Edoardo Moreni - March, 20th 2014

Kevin Rose is an american entrepreneur who co-founded Revision3, Digg, Pownce, and Milk. He also worked as production assistant and co-host at TechTv. He is currently a venture partner for Google Ventures. Kevin Rose is one of those Entrepreneurs who seem to have seen too many things, by founding more than one company and investing in dozens. He belongs to the dropout generation, by leaving the University of Nevada Las Vegas.

In 2004, he co-founded Digg, a technology link website, which was released publicly on the 5th of December. After six years, in 2010, he was replaced as CEO and he later left the company the year after in March. While he was working on Digg, Kevin Rose co-founded Pownce in 2007, a micro blogging platform, which was later acquired in 2008. After leaving Digg, Kevin co-founded, one month later, Milk, a development company focused on mobile applications. The company, and its only product Oink, was acquired by Google in 2012.

In 2005, Kevin Rose also co-founded Revision3, a San Francisco based multi-channel internet television network, which was sold in 2012 for $35 million. Kevin moved from a senior product manager position in the Google Plus team to become a venture partner at Google Ventures. In his “portfolio” there are companies such as Gowalla, Twitter, Foursquare, Dailybooth, NGMOCO, SimpleGeo, 3crowd, OMGPOP, Square, Facebook, Chomp, Formspring, Zynga, Fab, Square, Angelist and Medium.

He has been running Foundation, a podcast exclusively focused on the first steps taken from several different entrepreneurs. He has also a strong media presence, with over a million followers on Twitter. Kevin is the guy who both studies, creates and invests in startups as an angel investor or as a partner at Google Ventures.