Kevin Rose

17 statements across 3 episodes · 7 bullish · 2 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Jun 15, 2023 by Peter Shallard · said 35 times in 12 episodes since 2022 · across every show →

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Jun 15, 2023
Insight
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…”
Peter Shallard Jun 15, 2023 ▶ 16:01 Mental Models from a Shrink for Entrepreneurs
Apr 12, 2024 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
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 Apr 12, 2024 ▶ 3:29 Watch this if you want free $1m-$100m business ideas (with Kevin Rose)
Apr 12, 2024
Assertion Supported
Kevin Rose: Digg reached 38 million monthly unique visitors before failing
“We grew to thirty eight million monthly uniques.”
Kevin Rose Apr 12, 2024 ▶ 3:26 Watch this if you want free $1m-$100m business ideas (with Kevin Rose)
Apr 12, 2024
Assertion Supported
Kevin Rose adopted Bitcoin in 2011 and Ethereum at a few dollars
“My first tweet about Bitcoin was in 20 11, I think, and I was talking about Ethereum on Tim Ferriss show when it was a few dollars”
Kevin Rose Apr 12, 2024 ▶ 1:01:24 Watch this if you want free $1m-$100m business ideas (with Kevin Rose)
Apr 12, 2024 bullish
Disclosure
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…”
Kevin Rose Apr 12, 2024 ▶ 50:07 Watch this if you want free $1m-$100m business ideas (with Kevin Rose)
Apr 12, 2024 negative
Disclosure
Kevin Rose swears off building social networks due to hate and spam
“I can't bring myself to ever want to build in that space again because, you know, controlling the masses or trying to create an environment where there's like just a real good civil debate and not hate and spam and everything else. It's just, it is an absolute…”
Kevin Rose Apr 12, 2024 ▶ 9:09 Watch this if you want free $1m-$100m business ideas (with Kevin Rose)
Apr 12, 2024 positive
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Kevin Rose: Future generations will use AI to recreate their deceased parents
“But we certainly will, like, my kids will be able to do that with me.”
Kevin Rose Apr 12, 2024 ▶ 46:35 Watch this if you want free $1m-$100m business ideas (with Kevin Rose)
Apr 12, 2024 bullish
Disclosure
Kevin Rose will write a check to founders building retro TV hardware
“I would love to back someone that would be serious about creating this. Like I would write the check to make it happen.”
Kevin Rose Apr 12, 2024 ▶ 34:53 Watch this if you want free $1m-$100m business ideas (with Kevin Rose)
Feb 2, 2026 positive
Assertion Supported
Kevin Rose: Zero Intermittent Fasting App Generates Double-Digit Millions in Revenue
“When I made Xero the intermittent fasting app, I was like, I just want a way to track my fast and like have a silly little timer. And then, you know, the company's doing double digits, millions of dollars in revenue off of a little like timer app with some oth…”
Kevin Rose Feb 2, 2026 ▶ 51:32 Screensharing Kevin Rose's AI Workflow/New App
Feb 2, 2026
Insight
Rose: Paring Down Scope Will Be the Core Skill for Future Engineers
“So I think that the future engineer and the future developer and the future product builder here, it's not going to be what you build as much as what you do. If that kind of makes sense, because it's going to be so easy to build anything and everything to pair…”
Kevin Rose Feb 2, 2026 ▶ 2:32 Screensharing Kevin Rose's AI Workflow/New App
Feb 2, 2026 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
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 Feb 2, 2026 ▶ 30:47 Screensharing Kevin Rose's AI Workflow/New App
Feb 2, 2026 positive
Disclosure
Rose: Running Thousands of Daily Cloud Tasks Costs Under $100 Monthly
“I'm running thousands and thousands of these, and you know, I, yeah, it's like under a hundred dollars a month, and that's, I mean, when I say thousands, I mean like per day.”
Kevin Rose Feb 2, 2026 ▶ 23:27 Screensharing Kevin Rose's AI Workflow/New App
Feb 2, 2026 positive
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Rose: Old software concepts will be revived as build costs approach zero
“There are a lot of things that I feel will see the light of day again, but slightly modified because it, the cost to do so is, is, is next to nothing”
Kevin Rose Feb 2, 2026 ▶ 48:57 Screensharing Kevin Rose's AI Workflow/New App
Feb 2, 2026
Disclosure
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 Feb 2, 2026 ▶ 6:04 Screensharing Kevin Rose's AI Workflow/New App
Feb 2, 2026 neutral
Disclosure
Kevin Rose: I lacked coding ability to build Nylon without AI tools
“I understood technically how to pull this off in terms of the tools that would be required, but I couldn't write the code to do it.”
Kevin Rose Feb 2, 2026 ▶ 9:31 Screensharing Kevin Rose's AI Workflow/New App
Feb 2, 2026 bullish
Opinion
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 Feb 2, 2026 ▶ 1:50 Screensharing Kevin Rose's AI Workflow/New App
Feb 2, 2026 neutral
Disclosure
Rose: Prototype app Nylon cost only $500 to build
“It's, it cost me 500 dollars and I flush it down the drain and onto the next thing.”
Kevin Rose Feb 2, 2026 ▶ 47:15 Screensharing Kevin Rose's AI Workflow/New App
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