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Kevin Rose

(1960) Association Football Player

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Kevin Rose is an association football player, best known for Tools of Titans.

Quick Facts About Kevin Rose

Born: November 23, 1960
Profession: Association Football Player
Notable works: Tools of Titans

About Kevin Rose

Robert Kevin Rose 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. In 2025, Rose re-purchased Digg with Alexis Ohanian and re-launched it initially as a competitor to Reddit, before returning its focus to news aggregation.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Kevin Rose

At our peak, no one knew how to value Digg.

How

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I don't care what it is, when it has an LCD screen, it makes it better.

Care

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We want to open digg up to just about anyone and everyone that wants to express their interest in any type of…

About

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One of the things that's been crazy for us has been the speed at which news can break on Digg, because it's…

Because

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I want to be known as one of the most accurate investors that ever lived.

Accurate

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A team aligned behind a vision will move mountains. Sell them on your roadmap and don't compromise - care about the details,…

Behinds

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Social media really grew up.

Entrepreneur

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Ifyou believe in something, work nights and weekends, it won't feel like work.

Believe

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Release early and often.

Funny

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Founders: there is no shame in failing, take pride in that you have the guts to try something new.

Entrepreneurship

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Letting users control your site can be terrifying at first. From day one we were asking ourselves, "What is going to be…

Asking

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You don't need anyone's approval and in fact, you probably won't get it, so don't even try. Build, release and iterate. Make…

Approval

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The key to making money in angel investing is saying no. You meet with 100 companies and say no to 99 of them.

Angel

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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…

Add

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“My Heart fell. Since I could remember my heart has balanced A long such a thin line of right and wrong, love…

Love

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Since news breaks on digg very quickly, we face the same issues as newspapers which print a retraction for a story that…

Both

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One of the things that I've always loved to do is brainstorm ideas with friends and get together and talk about what…

About

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People want to have a voice and a say in what is news.

News

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We have a huge tech following that do nothing but Digg tech stories, and then there's another pool of users that remove…

Another

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Don't spend too much time planning, release early and often, some things will work, others won't, refine and move forward and above…

Design

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I don't do a ton of deals a year, and I really like working with startups - it's the only way I…

Add

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The democratic approach to news is a very valuable thing. We're always going to be dependent on the quality of reporting of…

Always

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Digg will serve as a means of gathering metrics for third party websites, providing them insights into who's digging their content, who…

Content

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With Digg, users submit stories for review, but rather than allow an editor to decide which stories go on the homepage, the…

Allow

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My background is in tech. I studied computer science, and was working on TechTV, so the first thing I wanted to do…

Background

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