95 - How Kevin Rose Invests in Web3
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🗓️ 6 December 2021
⏱️ 103 minutes
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Summary
Kevin Rose is a veteran of internet growth. Kevin founded digg, the news aggregator site that pioneered community-curated content in the early days of Web2. With a macro perspective of all things digital, Kevin has thrived as a builder and investor on the cutting edge of the internet.
His experience allowed him to understand the role of community and has played a key role in his transition from investing in technology to investing in culture and artists. Seeing creativity blossom has fostered Kevin’s conviction and confidence in the space, and when Kevin speaks, the digital world of today and tomorrow becomes crystal clear.
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Topics Covered:
0:00 Intro
5:00 Kevin Rose and Digg
10:23 What About Web3?
14:53 Blending not Competing
23:25 A Hybrid Approach
26:53 Crypto & The Inevitable
34:04 Confidence & Conviction
38:15 NFTs for the Long Term
48:56 Backing Artists
55:54 Self Sovereign Industries
59:49 Interactive Utility
1:08:09 Experimenting & Innovating
1:12:30 Tokens and Content
1:16:30 Getting Exposure
1:20:20 This is the Metaverse
1:27:36 Rapid Fire Questions
1:39:12 What’s Next For Kevin?
1:43:00 Closing & Disclaimers
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Resources:
Kevin on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/kevinrose?s=20
Proof Podcast:
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Bankless, where we explore the frontier of internet money and internet finance. |
| 0:12.1 | This is how to get started, how to get better, and how to front-run the opportunity. |
| 0:16.0 | This is Ryan Sean Adams, and I'm here with David Hoffman, and we're here to help you |
| 0:20.3 | become more bankless. |
| 0:22.3 | David, great episode, Kevin Rose, he's not all of mine. |
| 0:25.0 | I'm glad we had him on the podcast with a fantastic discussion where there's some |
| 0:28.6 | of the highlights. |
| 0:29.6 | Two themes of this episode really stuck out to me. |
| 0:32.2 | One theme is that Kevin is just a veteran of the growth of the internet. |
| 0:37.0 | We've had a number of these types of individuals on that have just watched the internet be |
| 0:40.8 | born in front of their eyes, and Kevin was lucky enough to be able to both be a builder |
| 0:45.2 | and then an investor in the growth of Web 2. |
| 0:49.0 | Kevin founded the Dig platform, which is an early version of Reddit, which was a little |
| 0:53.1 | bit before my time, but I think that those experiences that he had watching Web 2 grow |
| 0:57.3 | really allowed him to understand the role in community and people as the content creators |
| 1:03.1 | and the value creators for these systems. |
| 1:05.6 | The other thing that I think I really enjoyed was the transition from being a founder or |
| 1:11.5 | angel investor into technologies or companies, and instead in the world of Web 3 being an |
| 1:17.8 | angel investor into artists or creators. |
| 1:21.7 | Just the paradigm shift that that brings along with it as well, and Kevin I know is really |
| 1:25.8 | just interested in seeing creativity blossom out of the Web 3 platform. |
| 1:29.8 | Yeah, it's super cool. |
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