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General Information
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Blogkevinrose.com
BirthplaceCalifornia
Birthdate2/21/77

Current Companies
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Digg
Founder and Chief Architect
Revision3
Co-Founder
WeFollow
Founder
ngmoco
Advisor

Previous Companies
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Pownce
Co-founder

Web Presences
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Photo Credit

Scott Beale / Laughing Squid

Kevin Rose
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Kevin Rose is a serial entrepreneur and the Founder of Digg and WeFollow. Rose also co-founded Revision3, and Pownce (acquired by Six Apart).

Milestones
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  • 9/30/08 — Named one of Time Magazine's top 25 most influential people on the web (2008)
  • 2007 — TR35 - MIT's Technology Review have honored the young innovators whose inventions and research we find most exciting; today that collection is the TR35, a list of technologists and scientists, all under the age of 35.

Videos

Above:

TechCrunch interview with Kevin Rose, April 2009

Added: 4/21/09

Investments

Company Date Round Size Participants
Twitter 5/08Series B$15M6
OMGPOP 5/07Angel1

Sources

  1. The 25 Most Influential People on the Web (images.businessweek.com) [edit]
  2. MIT's TR35 (technologyreview.com) [edit]
  3. Twitter Announces Their Funding, Calls Itself A Communication Utility (techcrunch.com) []
  4. thealarmclock.com [edit]
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