Kevin Rose
Venture Partner, True Ventures. On 4 shows, 5 appearances. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Kevin Rose is a technology entrepreneur and venture investor. He is best known as the founder of Digg and Revision3, and serves as a venture partner at True Ventures.
4shows
5appearances
70statements
12resolved
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93said about them ↓ Everything Kevin Rose said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Rose: AI relationship mediators will be considered healthy within 10 years
“10 years from now, will that tech be good enough to where we'll consider that to be not like just like a healthy thing for our relationship? I think so.”
Rose: AI will end software engineering as non-subjective coding is solved
“I think engineering is over. I think we're going to be orchestrators of information, not engineers. I think those will be solved problems. Anything where there is a non subjective outcome, AI will tackle that and solve that problem.”
Rose: Students should not pursue computer science degrees right now
“I wouldn't go as a CS degree. I would not go into that right now, you know?”
Rose predicts generative AI will make Fiverr completely non-existent
“Whether it be creative writing or I believe Fiverr as a company, it will just be non-existent. It's going to destroy the low end of the creative market initially and then work its way up the chain.”
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: Vector Clustering Detects Undisclosed and Illegal Paid News Sponsorships
“I can detect when something is a paid sponsorship, even when sometimes people aren't calling it out as such, which is like really scary and illegal, because I will see, I can detect the similarity and distance difference between the vectors of the published co…”
Kevin Rose: Building Custom Personal Apps Will Become Norm Within Six Months
“If there's a workout app that you don't like because the buttons placement doesn't do it for you or doesn't track one key core metric, like you just build your own. Right. And like, that's going to be the norm in, you know, if it isn't already, it's gonna be t…”
Kevin Rose: VC Will Evolve Dramatically as Founders Bootstrap $10M Businesses
“I think VC is going to evolve dramatically over the next couple of years. Cause I believe that people don't need to raise capital and oftentimes most ideas, especially like just great lifestyle businesses that get to, you know, two, four or five, ten million i…”
Rose: I avoided AR/VR investing and disagree with Zuckerberg's strategy
“I don't agree with his direction around classes and AR VR. I never have. I've been anti AR VR for years. Never made an investment in the space, always avoided it altogether because I think that we're not considering the social side of things enough, like the i…”
Zuckerberg launched Facebook's Like button after dinners with Kevin Rose
“Facebook introduced the like button about a year later, I'd had multiple dinners with Zuckerberg talking about social voting and things like that.”
Kevin Rose is actively seeking to invest in AI companionship startups
“I've been desperately trying to invest in this space because I believe companionship and obviously we have an epidemic of kind of this loneliness culture that's going on and that, and this is going to be, you know, whether we like it or not, a solved problem w…”
Rose: AI will write 90% of a New York Times bestseller by 2027
“I have no doubt in the next five years we'll see a New York Times bestseller that was 90% written by AI.”
Rose: AI-Generated Code Is No Longer Slop and Improves Weekly
“I'm not even calling it slop anymore. Like they call the AI slop or whatever it may be, or whatever you want to look at the code. It's damn good. And it's getting better by the week.”
Kevin Rose: Rebooted Digg Is a Reddit Competitor Run by CEO Justin
“We have Justin as a CEO who runs kind of like the day to day and builds out, you know, the Reddit competitor version of dig. And then we have, you know, me that I'm kind of more in the labs area where I'm pushing on the edges of ideas and saying, what might we…”
Kevin Rose: Gemini Search Grounding Bypasses Scraper Blocks on Sites Like Reddit
“Oftentimes they won't come out and say this, but they kind of crawl the article and give you back what the article actually says. And they might reword it a little bit, but it's largely what the article says. And I can prove that because they can, you can do t…”
Kevin Rose: Vibe Coding Scalability Flaws Are Solved Easily Post-Traction
“The hardest thing to do is to find something that somebody actually wants to use, right? Like that's the hard problem. If I have something that I vibe coded and I launch it, and if it crashes under the weight of 50,000 people beating my door down because it's …”
Rose uses ChatGPT and professional therapy frameworks during marital disagreements
“If I get in a disagreement with my wife, I will take some of that shit to ChatGVT and be like, am I right here? What's going on? You know? And I, but I call and I say, use the framework of Terry Real. I use some of these like professional therapists and say, h…”
Rose: Digg Had More Web Traffic Than Facebook in Mid-2000s
“At that time we were larger than Facebook. And so traffic wise”
Kevin Rose: Crypto and NFTs are more fun because of blue ocean opportunities
“When I've kind of gotten into the art and NFT side of Things. That world and the world of cryptocurrency is probably the most fun because it is so blue ocean and there's just so much to be built there. It's not building yet another app and competing on, on CAC…”
Rose: AI will perform 90% of Figma interface design work by 2025
“But this is like inning one, like two, three years from now, it'll be doing 90% of the work versus, you know, the first right now was probably 20% of the work.”
Rose: Over 90% of long-term NFT users will not know they are using NFTs
“90 plus percent of people that interact with NFTs over the long term, I believe won't even know it as they're doing it as an NFT.”
Rose: Partnering with winery to launch physical bottle-backed NFTs in four months
“I'm working with A well-known, like very culty kind of wine producer out there... So one thing that is happening in the next Four months will be the issuance of NFTs to people that is going to be from a major well-known winery where it will represent one physi…”
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.”
The other half of the tape: Kevin Rose's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 89 times in 35 episodes across the shows. 4 statements on the record name them. every mention, with the transcript →
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Statements about Kevin Rose, by other people (4)
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…”
Shallard: Reacting to primary sources rather than peers prevents founder copycatting
“And one of the ways that you can fix this cognitive bias is by focusing, if you are going to consume information on the primary sources, so that your intuition, your instincts are reacting to the same information That these people like Kevin Rose are also reac…”
Hawk: Kevin Rose introduced him to his Blue Bottle Coffee investment
“Kevin Rose. Cause he was a hardcore skater when he was doing dig and he actually got me to go to my first comic con cause he wanted to do an interview with me. And it's funny cause I live in San Diego and I avoided comic con like the plague because of all the …”
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2022 8 mentions in 4 episodes 2 per episode
2021 7 mentions in 5 episodes 1 per episode
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- 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
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2020 1 mention in 1 episode
2019 1 mention in 1 episode
2018 10 mentions in 2 episodes 5 per episode
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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
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2016 6 mentions in 2 episodes 3 per episode
2015 9 mentions in 1 episode
One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Kevin's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.
| Show | Role there | Eps | Statements | Record | |
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| STARTUP IDEASLEDGER | Venture Partner, True Ventures | 2 | 26 | 100% 4/4 | full record on the Startup Ideas Podcast → |
| MY FIRST MILLIONLEDGER | Venture Partner, True Ventures | 1 | 23 | 60% 3/5 | full record on My First Million → |
| a16zLEDGER | Venture Partner, True Ventures | 1 | 11 | 100% 1/1 | full record on the a16z Podcast → |
| 20VCLEDGER | Venture Partner, True Ventures | 1 | 10 | 100% 2/2 | full record on 20VC → |