Kevin Rose: His $100M/Year Watch Blog, Money From Digg.com, & Web3 Business

My First Million

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Entrepreneurship, Investing, Business

4.8 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2022

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Episode 382: Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) and Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) talk to Kevin Rose (@kevinrose), entrepreneur, founder, VC and CEO of many projects, about creating an online magazine that garners $100M/year focusing on watches, what projects he's interested in, why he loves crypto, and where he invests his money. ----- Links: * Kevin Rose * DIGG * Proof * Hodinkee * agelessRx * Do you love MFM and want to see Sam and Shaan's smiling faces? Subscribe to our Youtube channel. * Want more insights like MFM? Check out Shaan's newsletter. ------ Show Notes: (03:15) - Kevin's background (13:40) - Meeting Mark Zuckerberg early in his career (26:15) - Beginnings of Hodinkee (33:55) - What gets you excited? (39:00) - What ideas/projects are you interested in? (50:30) - Web3 debate (53:40) - Crypto (01:13:05) - Portfolio ----- Past guests on My First Million include Rob Dyrdek, Hasan Minhaj, Balaji Srinivasan, Jake Paul, Dr. Andrew Huberman, Gary Vee, Lance Armstrong, Sophia Amoruso, Ariel Helwani, Ramit Sethi, Stanley Druckenmiller, Peter Diamandis, Dharmesh Shah, Brian Halligan, Marc Lore, Jason Calacanis, Andrew Wilkinson, Julian Shapiro, Kat Cole, Codie Sanchez, Nader Al-Naji, Steph Smith, Trung Phan, Nick Huber, Anthony Pompliano, Ben Askren, Ramon Van Meer, Brianne Kimmel, Andrew Gazdecki, Scott Belsky, Moiz Ali, Dan Held, Elaine Zelby, Michael Saylor, Ryan Begelman, Jack Butcher, Reed Duchscher, Tai Lopez, Harley Finkelstein, Alexa von Tobel, Noah Kagan, Nick Bare, Greg Isenberg, James Altucher, Randy Hetrick and more. ----- Additional episodes you might enjoy: • #224 Rob Dyrdek - How Tracking Every Second of His Life Took Rob Drydek from 0 to $405M in Exits • #209 Gary Vaynerchuk - Why NFTS Are the Future • #178 Balaji Srinivasan - Balaji on How to Fix the Media, Cloud Cities & Crypto * #169 - How One Man Started 5, Billion Dollar Companies, Dan Gilbert's Empire, & Talking With Warren Buffett • #218 - Why You Should Take a Think Week Like Bill Gates • Dave Portnoy vs The World, Extreme Body Monitoring, The Future of Apparel Retail, "How Much is Anthony Pompliano Worth?", and More • How Mr Beast Got 100M Views in Less Than 4 Days, The $25M Chrome Extension, and More

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0:00.0	When I saw you went and did the watch site,
0:02.9	Hodonke, I was like, a blog for luxury watches.
0:07.1	What the hell is this guy thinking?
0:08.8	Did you just say that it went from like a million
0:12.2	or two in revenue and now it's,
0:14.8	say I'm saying it's over 100 million?
0:17.3	Yeah, yeah, we're over 100 million in revenue now.
0:19.5	Man, that is wild.
0:20.6	That's right.
0:21.5	I feel like I could rule the world
0:23.4	I know I could be what I want to.
0:26.4	I put my all in it like no days old.
0:28.8	I'm gonna go let's travel never looking back.
0:32.1	What's up?
0:32.9	In this episode we are sitting down with Kevin Rose.
0:36.1	A lot of you know Kevin because he's an internet OG.
0:38.4	He created Dig back in the day.
0:40.0	He was a seed investor in Twitter
0:41.8	and a bunch of other cool companies.
0:43.4	He's been a VC, he's been a founder.
0:46.3	He recently launched an NFT project
0:48.4	that's done hundreds of millions of dollars worth
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