22 Facts About Kevin Rose

Kevin Rose is an American Internet entrepreneur who co-founded Revision3, Digg, Pownce, and Milk.

Kevin Rose served as production assistant and co-host at TechTV's The Screen Savers.

Kevin Rose became an Eagle Scout with the Boy Scouts of America.

Kevin Rose transferred to Southeast Career Technical Academy for high school in Las Vegas in 1992.

Kevin Rose then attended the University of Nevada Las Vegas, majored in computer science but dropped out in 1998.

Kevin Rose was hired as a production assistant for The Screen Savers.

Kevin Rose began appearing on-air in the "Dark Tip" segments and on Unscrewed with Martin Sargent, where he provided information on developing computing activities.

Kevin Rose became a regular co-host when Leo Laporte left TechTV on March 31,2004.

On May 22,2005, Kevin Rose reached an agreement with G4 that released him from his contract and went on to create Systm and later, Revision3, where he co-hosted Diggnation alongside Alex Albrecht for 6 years.

On March 11,2009, April 16,2010, and November 28,2011, Kevin Rose was a guest on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, along with fellow Diggnation host Alex Albrecht.

Kevin Rose began his career in web video on July 24,2003, with the release of the first episode of thebroken while he was still working on The Screen Savers at TechTV.

Kevin Rose founded Revision3 in Los Angeles, California with Jay Adelson and David Prager in April 2005.

On October 3,2011, Alex and Kevin Rose announced that they would be retiring the weekly Diggnation show at the end of the year.

Kevin Rose continued on at Digg until March 18,2011, when he resigned from all operational activities, only keeping a presence on the board of directors; Digg was acquired by Betaworks, in 2012, for $0.5 million.

On June 27,2007, Kevin Rose launched a micro-blogging site called Pownce, which was acquired on December 1,2008 and shut down on December 15,2008 by blogging company Six Apart.

On March 16,2012, Kevin Rose announced that he, along with the four others of the Milk team, were hired by Google after shutting down Milk and laying off the remaining members.

Kevin Rose started his first day as a senior product manager for Google on March 19,2012.

In January 2015, Kevin Rose announced he would leave GV to focus on his new app development lab - North.

Kevin Rose invested in Gowalla, Twitter, Foursquare, Dailybooth, ngmoco, SimpleGeo, 3crowd, OMGPOP, Square, Facebook, Chomp and Formspring.

In July 2015, after Watchville merged with another watch-enthusiast site called Hodinkee, Kevin Rose moved to New York City to become the chief executive of Hodinkee.

Kevin Rose co-founded the Proof Collective, a group of NFT collectors, alongside Justin Mezzell.

Kevin Rose has a chapter giving advice in Tim Ferriss' 2016 book, Tools of Titans.