Kevin Rose
7 statements across 3 episodes · 1 bullish · 3 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Jun 12, 2017 by Kevin Rose · said 40 times in 15 episodes since 2015 · across every show →
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brought up most by Harry Stebbings (30), Tony Conrad (2), David Sze (2), Mike Maples (1), John Callaghan (1), Jason Fried (1), Gary Vaynerchuk (1), Gary Liu (1)
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2025 2 mentions in 1 episode
2023 1 mention in 1 episode
2022 1 mention in 1 episode
2021 3 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
- 20VC: Greylock's David Sze on His Biggest Lessons Working with Mark Zuckerberg and Reid Hoffman, The Rise of Pre-Emptive Rounds, How To Think Through Price Discipline Today and How Truly Strong Venture Partnerships Function
- 20VC: Basecamp CEO Jason Fried on His Relationship To Risk, Money, Vulnerability and Self-Doubt, Fantasising About Being Fired, How To Optimise Decision-Making and Minimising Regret
- every mention in 2021, scene by scene →
2020 1 mention in 1 episode
2019 1 mention in 1 episode
2018 10 mentions in 2 episodes 5 per episode
- 20VC: The Fundamentals Of Optimising The Fundraising Process, SAFE's vs Priced Equity Rounds & Why Hiring Is Really A Big Data Problem with Chris Hutchins, Founder @ Grove & Former Partner @ Google Ventures
- 20VC: The 4 Key Skills All VCs Need To Be Successful, How To Build, Maintain and Scale Your Network in VC and What is The Process Through Which VCs Build Conviction in Opportunities with Max Motschwiller, General Partner @ Meritech Capital
- every mention in 2018, scene by scene →
2017 6 mentions in 3 episodes 2 per episode
- 20VC: Tony Conrad on Straddling The Role Of Founder & Investor, What True Founder/Product Fit Looks Like & The Dangers of Party Rounds
- 20VC: What Metrics LPs Really Use To Measure Manager Success, Why 10 Year Fund Structures Really Do Not Work & Why Venture Is So Similar To The Movie Business with Will Porteous, General Partner @ RRE Ventures
- 20VC: Why Investors Have The Biggest Problem with Bias, Why Our Job Is To Maximise Risk & Why It Is Essential To Get Good at Losing with True Ventures Founder, Jon Callaghan
- every mention in 2017, scene by scene →
2016 6 mentions in 2 episodes 3 per episode
2015 9 mentions in 1 episode
Everything said about Kevin Rose, oldest first
Jun 12, 2017 bullish
Jun 12, 2017 neutral
Jun 12, 2017 bearish
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Jun 12, 2017 negative
Kevin Rose: 24/7 hustle causes founder burnout and hurts long-term success
“If you're burning the kind of midnight oil, and you're staying up, and you're pushing your entire team extremely hard, it's okay to do that in very small, small Sprints, but I don't believe that is taking the long-term view. I think that I want my founders not…”
Apr 19, 2021 negative
Digg failed because its community became toxic while Reddit successfully evolved
“That was part of his success, but I think that that group of individuals actually became pretty trollish, quite honestly, by the end of it, and navigating how to succeed through that was very hard for Digg and for Kevin, and you watched someone like a Reddit c…”