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.

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What year is it?

A lot of people seem disappointed that Rose is a privileged untalented asshole now.

If it's any consolation, he's always been that way. Here's episode 1 of his first show "The Broken", where his genius hack is to steal someone's pickup order from a restaurant: https://youtu.be/tNjoo9TuCHY

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?

No way, the guy from TechTV!?

Anyone else remember that time Rose threw a raccoon?

It's pretty neat how they have a custom design for that interview.