Kevin Rose Leaves Google Ventures
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Some of us grew up watching him on TechTV, then he catches magic in a bottle with Digg, has a chance to sell for hundreds of millions, tragically loses that chance as his company loses traction and the upstart competitor (Reddit) becomes the one hosting amas by actors and politicians.
His story is almost Jobsian.
That is my honest, constructive criticism of a company aimed at high end watch aficionados.
I'm just saying, of the two ideas his "incubator" has done so far, that stood out as being particularly out of touch.
I think he's capable of more. I suspect he thinks so, I'm not saying he's limited to this sort of idea.
Maybe he's leaving Google to focus on coming up with better ideas than a fancy watch thing. ;)
Everyone (prob including himself) is expecting him to put out a home run product now. He seems "due" for it. But if he comes out swinging for the fences, which I think he kinda did with Milk, there's a good chance that all parties will be disappointed because regardless of who you are, those home runs are really hard to come by, and even for someone like Kevin Rose, still very unlikely. I think if he follows these sorts of opportunities where his passion lies, he'll create a succession of hits that may eventually lead to his home run. Who knows, there's obviously no science to this, but that's the approach I would, and do, take.
I'm sure there's a lot we don't know, but it seems pretty straightforward.
It's entirely possible that he wanted his GV role to continue but he did not succeed there. It's also possible that the cover story is true. We will likely never know.
He is basically trying to find a little niche to mine for a small win, not change the world. That's so fascinating to me.
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I wonder what (obviously poorly crafted) filter/rule it triggered.. Too many dashes?
I don't think there's any correlation with porn.
Is my browser just making the link not obvious?
Parsed the source and all I see is some flickr sites credited for the image.
No idea how I got that.
I found episode 3 on youtube. I think there are only 4 or 5 episodes, but they are hilarious and informative. He even interviewed Kevin Mitnick in this episode. This was really before he was famous. I think he started Revision 3 after that, and then went on to start Digg.
Highlight of the night, and was very gracious.