Kevin Rose from Web 2.0 to Web3

Acquired

Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal

Venturecapital, Ma, Investing, Acquisitions, Startups, Vc, Investment, Business, Technology

4.8 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2021

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Summary

We sit down with the one and only Kevin Rose to talk about his journey from pioneering Web 2.0 with Digg to leading the charge on Web3 and NFT + DeFi investing as a partner at True Ventures and his new show Modern Finance. We cover it all -- TechTV, Digg's true origin story, Milk, Hodinkee, interviewing Beeple and where MoFi goes from here. This was an episode we’ve been wanting to do forever, and Kevin was truly a blast to hang out with. Tune in and then go check out everything he’s building now over at Modern Finance!

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Modern Treasury: https://bit.ly/acquiredmoderntreasury

Links:

Modern Finance: https://modern.finance
Especially the Beeple episode: https://modern.finance/episode/beeple-his-story-the-future-of-nfts-his-favorite-digital-artist-and-more/
Proof: https://www.proof.xyz
Kevin on Twitter: https://twitter.com/kevinrose

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0:00.0	Welcome to Acquired. Today we're sitting down with Kevin Rose. Kevin was one of the pioneers
0:06.2	of Web2.0 as the founder of Dig and then became one of the Valley's first super angels
0:10.7	investing early in companies like Twitter, Facebook and Square. Today he's a partner at
0:15.2	True Ventures and host to the Modern Finance podcast. Let's chat with him.
0:19.4	All right. Did you like that? Should we put that in? I've always wanted to do that.
0:26.9	Welcome to this special episode of Acquired. The podcast about great technology companies
0:48.6	and the stories and playbooks behind them. I'm Ben Gilbert and I'm the co-founder and
0:52.8	managing director of Seattle based Pioneer Square Labs and our venture fund PSL Ventures.
0:58.4	And I'm David Rosenthal and I am an angel investor based in San Francisco. And we are your hosts.
1:06.9	This was so effing cool. Oh yeah. Kevin is so great. We had such a blast. Of course
1:13.3	we went deep. I covered the screen savers, the real origin story of Dig, the Dignation
1:17.8	Parties itself by the Ben you were at back in the day. Totally. I wasn't expecting him
1:22.7	to he like corrected the record. All the previous dig founding stories are wrong. I know Wikipedia
1:28.1	is wrong. Apparently. Well, listeners, this episode basically has two chapters. We start
1:33.0	in Web2 and we end in Web3. And obviously Kevin is super deep on all things. Crypto,
1:39.2	blockchain and FTs and he's doing a really cool thing on the Modern Finance podcast
1:43.8	and he even ends the show with announcing a new thing that he's doing. So stay tuned
1:47.9	for that. But I had so much fun this episode pattern matching everything Kevin learned
1:52.7	from Web2 to the Web3 world. This is a great time to tell you about one of our very favorite
1:59.0	companies, Crusoe. So Crusoe as listeners know by now is a clean
2:03.6	compute cloud provider specifically built for AI workloads. Nvidia is one of their major
2:09.8	partners and literally Crusoe's data centers are nothing but racks and racks of A100s
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