Age, Biography and Wiki
Kevin Rose (Robert Kevin Rose) was born on 21 February, 1977 in California, U.S., is an American internet entrepreneur (b. 1977). Discover Kevin Rose's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 47 years old?
Popular As |
Robert Kevin Rose |
Occupation |
N/A |
Age |
47 years old |
Zodiac Sign |
Pisces |
Born |
21 February, 1977 |
Birthday |
21 February |
Birthplace |
California, U.S. |
Nationality |
United States
|
We recommend you to check the complete list of Famous People born on 21 February.
He is a member of famous Entrepreneur with the age 47 years old group.
Kevin Rose Height, Weight & Measurements
At 47 years old, Kevin Rose height not available right now. We will update Kevin Rose's Height, weight, Body Measurements, Eye Color, Hair Color, Shoe & Dress size soon as possible.
Physical Status |
Height |
Not Available |
Weight |
Not Available |
Body Measurements |
Not Available |
Eye Color |
Not Available |
Hair Color |
Not Available |
Who Is Kevin Rose's Wife?
His wife is Darya Pino (m. 2013)
Family |
Parents |
Not Available |
Wife |
Darya Pino (m. 2013) |
Sibling |
Not Available |
Children |
2 |
Kevin Rose Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Kevin Rose worth at the age of 47 years old? Kevin Rose’s income source is mostly from being a successful Entrepreneur. He is from United States. We have estimated Kevin Rose's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
Net Worth in 2024 |
$1 Million - $5 Million |
Salary in 2024 |
Under Review |
Net Worth in 2023 |
Pending |
Salary in 2023 |
Under Review |
House |
Not Available |
Cars |
Not Available |
Source of Income |
Entrepreneur |
Kevin Rose Social Network
Timeline
Kevin Rose is an American Internet entrepreneur who co-founded Revision3, Digg, Pownce, and Milk.
He also served as production assistant and co-host at TechTV's The Screen Savers.
Rose transferred to Southeast Career Technical Academy for high school (formerly known as Vo-Tech High School) in Las Vegas in 1992.
He then attended the University of Nevada Las Vegas, majored in computer science but dropped out in 1998.
Rose worked for two dot-com startups through CMGI.
Rose was hired as a production assistant for The Screen Savers.
He began appearing on-air in the "Dark Tip" segments and on Unscrewed with Martin Sargent, where he provided information on developing computing activities.
Rose began his career in web video (or IPTV) on July 24, 2003, with the release of the first episode of thebroken while he was still working on The Screen Savers at TechTV.
He became a regular co-host when Leo Laporte left TechTV on March 31, 2004.
On March 25, 2004, Comcast's G4 gaming channel announced a merger with TechTV, which resulted in a round of layoffs.
Rose moved to Los Angeles to stay with G4.
In 2004, Rose, Owen Byrne, Ron Gorodetzky, and Jay Adelson formed Digg, a technology link website.
The website was publicly launched on December 5, 2004.
On May 22, 2005, 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 July 1, 2005, Rose and Alex Albrecht started the weekly podcast, Diggnation, which summarizes top stories submitted by Digg users.
In 2006, Fox InteractiveMedia Group offered $60 million (equivalent to $ million in ) for Digg, which the Digg board turned down given how quickly the brand was continuing to grow.
On November 14, 2007, he was a contestant on a game show on Gigaom's NewTeeVee Live.
In 2007, he was named to the MIT Technology Review TR35 as one of the top 35 innovators in the world under the age of 35.
On June 27, 2007, 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 11, 2009, April 16, 2010, and November 28, 2011, Rose was a guest on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, along with fellow Diggnation host Alex Albrecht.
Starting in 2009, Rose started an intermittent podcast called The Random Show with friend Tim Ferriss.
Over the next four years, CEO Rose lost interest in helping the site continue its growth, focusing on a series of non-Digg outside projects; the board eventually replaced him as CEO, on September 1, 2010.
On October 3, 2011, Alex and Kevin announced that they would be retiring the weekly Diggnation show at the end of the year.
The final show was taped on December 30, 2011, at The Music Box in Los Angeles, California.
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 (equivalent to $ million in ).
In April 2011, the technology blog TechCrunch reported on the founding of "Milk".
The company is focused on creating mobile applications.
The first application to be released was Oink, a tool for ranking real-world items.
From 2012 to 2015, he was a venture partner at GV.
Rose was born in Redding, California and lived in Oregon before his family moved to Las Vegas, Nevada, where he spent most of his childhood.
He became an Eagle Scout with the Boy Scouts of America.
In March 2012, Milk, Inc. announced that it would be shutting down its only product, Oink.
On March 16, 2012, Rose announced that he, along with the four others of the Milk team (Daniel Burka, Chris Hutchins and Joshua Lane), 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.
On May 30, AllThingsD reported that Rose had moved off the Google+ team to become a venture partner at GV.
In January 2015, Rose announced he would leave GV to focus on his new app development lab - North.
Rose invested in Gowalla, Twitter, Foursquare, Dailybooth, ngmoco, SimpleGeo, 3crowd, OMGPOP, Square, Facebook, Chomp and Formspring.
After leaving Google, Rose started Watchville, a news aggregation app focused on wristwatches.