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Kevin Rose: GV deployed its entire $254M annual fund into Uber
“I definitely know that largest GVs ever done is Uber, where it was two hundred and fifty four million, I believe. So it was our entire fund into one of their rounds.”
Kevin Rose: GV operated on an annually refreshed $300M allocation
“GB was a little bit different than your typical fund that is invested over the course of two to three years, whereas ours was refreshed annually. So we had a brand new you know, three hundred million dollar checkbook come January first.”
Kevin Rose refuses to invest in cryptocurrencies that merely tweak Bitcoin
“I'm not going to buy into a cryptocurrency that is just a somewhat slightly version or somewhat slightly tweaked version of Bitcoin. It has to be something that is truly novel and unique”
Kevin Rose: Virtual reality is a passing fad
“I've always disliked virtual reality. I've never been a fan of it. I wrote a blog post on a medium here, I guess a year and a half, two years ago about just virtual reality being a fad.”
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…”
Kevin Rose pushes for super pro-rata rights in follow-on funding rounds
“When I'm getting into those markets, I'll place kind of smallish bets initially, and then as I see progress, continue to increase those over time. And that's part of the reason why I go for pro rata rights as an angel, and oftentimes push for kind of a super p…”
Kevin Rose's free fasting app reached #1 and logged 700k fasts
“Yeah. So, you know, it was just a simple little free app and we were able to quickly kind of shoot up in the rankings inside of the app store for the word fasting. So now if you go into the app store and Apple and type in fasting, we're kind of the number one …”
Kevin Rose: Struggling to admit ignorance is a major founder handicap
“I think that the hardest thing for anyone is really to admit that you know, you don't know something. I think that's really hard for brilliant founders, and it can be a big crutch”