At the height of digg, I thought Rose was kind of cool. One of those Silicon Valley success stories that used to inspire tech enthusiasts like me. I watched diggnation and bought in to the culture being presented. But I’ll never forget that when digg 4 released, and bombed, Kevin threw his own employees and developers under the bus instead of taking responsibility for strategic mistakes. It was really eye opening to me about him and many of the other frauds that Silicon Valley hoists up as role models. Since then, he’s done nothing to dissuade me that he’s just another talentless tech-bro asshole that got way more attention and money than he deserved.
Same thing with Spez, tbh.
I watched Diggnation a lot too because it felt like TechTV was living on in some little way. I remember thinking Alex Albrecht was pretty cool at the time. I haven’t thought about that in well over a decade. I’d rather not look him up now because I don’t want to know if he’s actually a piece of shit like Tommy Talerico haha.
What year is it?
They are running a 2004 week, looking back at tech from that era.
I will say I kinda rolled my eyes at the end where he said he’d remake digg with ai but the idea of having comments be auto moderated to be detected as contributing to a conversation of the article vs attacking someone seemed interesting.
Isn’t he just a shill for questionable shit now?
Anyone else remember that time Rose threw a raccoon?
No way, the guy from TechTV!?
Yup. He’s VC now. Seems like just another Silicon Valley tech bro, not sure why anyone should care about him anymore.
From Wikipedia:
Rose co-founded the Proof Collective, a group of NFT collectors
Yeah, tech bro douche confirmed.
All downhill after The Screen Savers. Except financially, presumably.
Leo’s still doing his thing though. I support the TWiT network because I value independent journalism. They’re mostly commentary but still.
It’s pretty neat how they have a custom design for that interview.
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