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Kevin Rose

lines on the record: 139
first: 2014-04-18
most recent: 2014-04-18
sittings or episodes: 1
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“So, without a doubt, I found this little charcuterie place around the corner from my house that sells like aged beef. Okay. And hundred-day dry aged big old chunk of beef Suveed in the water bath at medium rare and then just like flash grilled so you like render all the fat and like and then just a big old tasty cab. I mean that sounds good.”
2014-04-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · Episode 1: Kevin Rose · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Even worse answer. All right This is a beta, man. This is a beta. Never again will the breakfast cereal question come up.”
2014-04-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · Episode 1: Kevin Rose · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I don't want to suggest something that's bad for people's health out there, then they start consuming it and all of a sudden here you can't see.”
2014-04-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · Episode 1: Kevin Rose · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Oh boy, it's these kind of questions. This is like the Google interview questions. They're like, how many ping pong balls keep it into 747? Yeah, exactly.”
2014-04-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · Episode 1: Kevin Rose · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So, the way It's crazy in that, like, you know, when you hear about most of the stuff, you think, oh, it's those people out in Silicon Valley and California doing all this stuff. And it's like, and you're right to be thinking that. There's obviously a lot of that stuff gets funded and everything I hear, but when this happens and eventually the tools that form around it will enable anyone anywhere to really participate and get involved at a much earlier stage, which is exciting. I mean, there's, you know, there's a lot of risk, but there's also potentially a lot of reward on that stuff.”
2014-04-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · Episode 1: Kevin Rose · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Is all I have to say about that. Yeah, I mean, it's interesting to think that there's going to be this act is going to open up new worlds for everyday investors to come in and do more angel-style investing.”
2014-04-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · Episode 1: Kevin Rose · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I mean, dude, it's a lot of breadsticks. I was cranking out at any given time. There's two big ass trays of breadsticks going on in Olive Garden in the oven”
2014-04-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · Episode 1: Kevin Rose · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Because you had to have breadsticks on the table, dude. Bread sticks always have to be on the table. I still have dreams about this. Bread sticks need to be on the table.”
2014-04-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · Episode 1: Kevin Rose · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“If not, I forgive you. No, not really. I was never a waiter. I mean, I would see people at tables at Olive Garden as well. But don't hate on my breadsticks. Breadsticks were a tough job, dude. Those waiters would get pissed at you if you didn't have the breadsticks out on time because they made their tips on breadsticks.”
2014-04-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · Episode 1: Kevin Rose · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Maybe 12, something like that. And I basically wrote little programs in basic. And then I would actually, I found this program that would compile, actually it wasn't basic. I wrote some tricky little utilities actually using batch, like in batch files. And then I wrote, I got some software that compiled them to exes and then tried to sell them to shareware. But anyway, that was super geeky. But I've always been tinkering for a long time.”
2014-04-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · Episode 1: Kevin Rose · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Ah, my first business was a piece of software well, I mean it goes way back before that when I was like 12 I had a little software company called Foliage Software and it wasn't actually a software company but I had business cards made so it felt like a software company but I basically how old are you?”
2014-04-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · Episode 1: Kevin Rose · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So, I think a lot of mistakes have been there. A lot of the mistakes have been, you know, there's always the deals that you fund because you're really friendly as an angel, you're friendly with some people. And it's not necessarily, and you're backing them as an entrepreneur because you really like the person. And there's nothing wrong with that. You're betting on a person. You might not necessarily like the...”
2014-04-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · Episode 1: Kevin Rose · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think For me, it's the mistakes that have occurred, I think, are one in passing on deals. Like, I think that when you're using your own money, especially when you're an angel investor You are very extremely picky, almost too much so, in that, you know, on a one to ten, meaning 10 is like you're just over the moon excited about doing this deal when you're an angel and you have limited capital, you're thinking like, okay, well, I have to be a nine or higher to make this happen to actually want to put money into this company. And I think that there was a lot of great eights in there that I just passed on. And that had I had more cash the time I probably would have done those deals. And some of those have turned out to be because.”
2014-04-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · Episode 1: Kevin Rose · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Things like that, like that trusted neighborhood network are starting to create really unique opportunities for people to exchange goods and services. You know, there's like a plumber that was on there last week being like, hey, I'm a plumber. I live in the neighborhood. Anybody ever needs me? You know, it's like it's just a different platform that was created out of neighborhoods out of like people getting to know each other in their local neighborhood that thought was interesting. And I think that a year and a half ago that nobody was really talking about it. Nobody just really thought that was that exciting.”
2014-04-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · Episode 1: Kevin Rose · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Like goods, goods being sold. Like, I see couches for sale on Nextdoor, which were for sale on Craigslist, you know, six months ago.”
2014-04-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · Episode 1: Kevin Rose · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, this is connecting neighbors on a very social level, which I like because it's something where in San Francisco and big cities, we don't know our neighbors. It's not like you can walk across the street and be like, oh, hey, Jim, how's it going? You know, like you might know one house in any direction, but not two or three houses. And you don't know who those people are. So the idea of like creating that social fabric so that you can have like Ad hoc things come together like social, like neighborhood watch programs, and eventually commerce on top of a neighborhood graph, which I think is really interesting. What types of”
2014-04-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · Episode 1: Kevin Rose · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, so it was like it's a neighborhood social network. And I think that there was a lot of people that were like, I just, you know, I don't know what that's all about or what it means. And for me, You know, it's funny. It's like, I don't want to come off on this podcast sounding like I'm a know it all because I've been wrong on a lot of deals. But every once in a while you kind of see a market before it's about to happen. And then sometimes you just miss it all together. Like Pinterest, I had an opportunity to invest very early on, saw it, liked it, ended up passing, and I'm kicking myself every single day. But, you know, Nextdoor was one where I saw it. I was like, okay.”
2014-04-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · Episode 1: Kevin Rose · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I mean, I think that there's been a few of those, not too within the last even year and a half or so. I've gone into a handful of deals that are now starting to work out. Like Nextdoor, I think is a great example of one that I invest in maybe a year and a half ago.”
2014-04-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · Episode 1: Kevin Rose · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I mean, I think that There's always investors that say no, including myself, and a lot of things that actually end up being really successful. So you can't really blame somebody. It's like, I feel like, and I'm sure there's this case for you, it's like you look at, you know, 20, 30, 50, and now as a professional venture capitalist, like hundreds of deals per year. Right. And you're going to say no to a lot of winners out there. For me, it's like I don't feel as though I've gone into something all in into something that like totally has everyone was against because there was always somebody willing to invest in that startup.”
2014-04-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · Episode 1: Kevin Rose · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But no, seriously, though, I think that I kind of feel like if it's something that will appeal to me and I can see myself using it on a daily basis, I'm going to open my phone to do this two to three times per day. It could be a big deal. And I think that's what I look for. That's when I'm trying to, you know, find the next Instagram or whatever it may be. It's like I'm looking for something I'm going to use on a daily basis, something that's going to sit in my... You know, there's like 20 spaces on your iPhone in the default screen. Like, what are one of those icons going to be? Is there going to be something that's that prominent, that is that important that it will take up some of that real estate, some of the default real estate on my home screen?”
2014-04-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · Episode 1: Kevin Rose · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Check to whatever. You can't move your followers to Facebook. You can't move your followers so that it was very defensible in that way. And seeing those couple things and thinking like, okay, well, this could be something. And again, I didn't know. It was just like, it was a gamble. And a lot of angel investing is, for me, is going on your gut. And so I placed a bet and just happened to win there. But I think that for me, it's like, Hopefully, finding an insight like that, and then also finding something that you yourself plays to like me as a consumer. Like, I think I'm kind of an every man, like every woman, every, I don't know, I'm a woman, but I mean, I didn't mean that, but you are like.”
2014-04-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · Episode 1: Kevin Rose · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Like, peek over their shoulder and kind of be with them on this journey that they're going on and like watch what they're up to without actually knowing them. It's going to be their platform because they don't know how to blog. It's low labor. It's low labor, low, like the barrier to entry is extremely low. You can misspell everything and it can be two sentences and it's still content, right? And so seeing that and then also figuring out that a follower count wasn't portable. So if you think about like you have an email newsletter, you can move that from email provider to email provider.”
2014-04-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · Episode 1: Kevin Rose · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Shrewd. We got two very different valuations. I got really lucky on that one and Tim gunning got screwed. But the thing is, you know, when you were looking at Twitter. There were two things that really caught my attention. One was that Jack Dorsey, the guy that created it, had created a model that was not about mutual friendship. So up until this point, it was about, you know, Facebook and MySpace and others. You had to send a friend request and someone had to accept your friend request. And that's the way that a social relationship happened on the internet. Jack was smart enough to think like, hey, well, maybe it doesn't have to be like that. Maybe you can tail and follow someone that you don't actually know. And so when he created that, I remember thinking like, wow, this is crazy. Like there was a bunch of influential people that started to sign up, you know, and I was like, I can kind of.”
2014-04-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · Episode 1: Kevin Rose · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, I mean, so Twitter, for example, you know, it was very early days when I invested in Twitter and you were shortly thereafter, we were both investors early on. Two weeks ago.”
2014-04-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · Episode 1: Kevin Rose · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“To me, you have to have like a natural curiosity. You have to say, okay, I want to get excited. I get a hit of freaking dopamine and my flutters in the stomach when I see something that is new and original and has never been done before. And so I feel that”
2014-04-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · Episode 1: Kevin Rose · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That I would like as a consumer and that I feel could spread and like really take off. And then, you know, it was kind of like analyzing these companies and looking at these different things and seeing them and being that early adopter where you want to play with everything. I think you have to have like a natural.”
2014-04-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · Episode 1: Kevin Rose · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It was just something that actually hurt me in school because I was always daydreaming about different things. And I actually got really crappy grades and just like, you know, didn't do well in school because my mind was always someplace else. And I think that it was always... Once I got connected up with computers and I got really into computers, it was always about what I could build with software. And so I built a couple little things that I launch as shareware and had on ShareWare blogs and stuff like that and made some money. And then it kind of kind of clicked that, you know, you write this software once, you charge for it. You don't have to keep paying to have it made. You can just make more and more copies while you sleep. It was insane, you know, and so that clicked. And then I started thinking about what are the things that...”
2014-04-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · Episode 1: Kevin Rose · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And so I started thinking about it just made me think what could I make that he would think was cool? And then it would spread throughout the class. That was like what I got excited about. And then I just realized that I just like, I kept coming up with all these ideas. And I've always been the kind of person that just starts to think about. And I think it was honestly.”
2014-04-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · Episode 1: Kevin Rose · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And so kids started buying them were in the high school. And I remember at that point, I realized that there are certain very early adopters like taste makers. I was like, if you could only, like this person can spread a trend. And at the time I was thinking about fashion. Because like this kid was considered by many other classmates to be like the cool kid, right? And so once he did something, he would influence all these other people.”
2014-04-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · Episode 1: Kevin Rose · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You are an inmate, exactly. And so he was wearing that. And I remember everyone thought that was the coolest thing. And everyone's like, oh, he's got that jumpsuit on and blah, blah. And like kids started going out and like literally buying these. You could buy them. They weren't made by Dickies, but a very similar brand. And they sold them. Actually, I think maybe they were made by Dickies, but they sold them at Kmart.”
2014-04-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · Episode 1: Kevin Rose · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That's a great question. I think that for me, you know, I can remember analyzing people and trends all the way back in high school. The first time I remember it, I remember there was this one kid in my class that he wore a fluorescent orange jumpsuit to school. It was like a garbage man, like what the garbage man would wear, you know.”
2014-04-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · Episode 1: Kevin Rose · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, it didn't work out. Yeah, it was very heavy stuff. So anyway, ended up hosting a television show on the screensavers. The name of the show was called The Screensavers on Tech TV, and then started my own first startup, which was called Dig, which is a social news site. And that grew that to a pretty decent size. Started a couple other companies, ended up angel investing, sold a few companies, got acquired by Google. Long story short, had a big long seven, eight, nine, ten-year run in the tech space, and then eventually ended up as a venture capitalist at Google Venture. So I'm a VC there that is funding companies and helping find the next big thing.”
2014-04-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · Episode 1: Kevin Rose · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I just moved out here working with, I was actually doing some marketing. I was doing ad buys and helping them track the conversions on Protect TV. No, for a little startup, a CMGI funded startup. It was an online furniture store who thought we were going to make billions. But it turns out people don't like to pay the shipping for really heavy furniture on the internet.”
2014-04-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · Episode 1: Kevin Rose · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Because you use it. I've been doing my little podcast. Sure. You know, I grew up kind of a boring life in Las Vegas of all places, which I don't like to admit to many people because it's a fun place to visit, but it's not really a place I consider home anymore. I do like going, hanging out with friends. Obviously, the occasional bender out in Vegas is always fun. So, you know, I moved out to the Bay Area in 2000 and started working at, you know, dot coms at the tail end of that in the tech space, ended up working at Tech TV and starting there in 2002, late 2002, kind of behind the scenes, eventually ended up doing segments on a show called The Screensaver. So I was actually on air talent.”
2014-04-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · Episode 1: Kevin Rose · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Scrooge my deck. The thing is What you'll find there is that he is a really fanatical kind of crazy wine connoisseur that likes really rare obscure wines and great stories. So every wine that he'll pour you, he's like, oh, I got this crazy story. I met this winemaker, blah, blah, blah. They live in this little region, and I like it because it's really obscure, hard to find grape. And so it's not really expensive wine. Like you'll go in there and like that, I think, I mean, they don't have like multi-hundred dollar bottles of wine. It's like standard, you know, just good prices and heavy pores. Anyway, he's a good dude. He's a good stuff.”
2014-04-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · Episode 1: Kevin Rose · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Go there, say hi to the owner. His name is Chris if he's there, and tell him that you heard this on Tim Tim Talk Talk and you will get a discount. No, I'm just kidding. But you probably could say that. He probably would give you a discount because he's a cool guy like that. But yeah, I was just there actually meeting another friend hanging out. And he gave me, he's like, do you want a bottle to go? And I was like, I'm going to do Tim Tim Talk Talk. I need a bottle of wine. The reason I'm saying the name over and over is I want to stick. I know you're incepting people. You're a fucker. I know. I know how you operate. So anyway, the name of the bottle of wine is gambling and McDuck.”
2014-04-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · Episode 1: Kevin Rose · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So we are having a bottle of wine from a friend of mine, Chris, who owns a little tiny tiny tiny tiny wine bar in San Francisco. And what I mean tiny, I mean you can probably fit like 35 people in the entire place. It's a little hole in the wall down an alleyway. It's actually where I met my wife for our first date. I didn't know that. Yeah. It's called Hotel Biron B-I-R-O-N. And if you're ever in San Francisco,”
2014-04-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · Episode 1: Kevin Rose · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, it seemed to me like you're on the road so much and you're constantly bumping into obviously really interesting folks. It's just a shame that you're not capturing those conversations that you're having anyway and just put it out there for people to consume.”
2014-04-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · Episode 1: Kevin Rose · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“No problem. You know, it's funny you said that we should do this, and I said, why do you want me as your first guest? Because we do the random show together, which appears on your blog from time to time. That's right. And it's like, I think your audience would be like, oh, this is just the random show on audio. Oh,”
2014-04-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · Episode 1: Kevin Rose · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT