Kevin Rose: Co-founder of Digg and Revision3

Kevin Rose: Co-founder of Digg and Revision3

Business Owner · Internet & Consumer Tech

San Francisco

Kevin Rose co-founded Digg, which launched in December 2004, and other startups including Revision3, Pownce and Milk, and re-purchased Digg with Alexis Ohanian in 2025.

About Kevin Rose: Co-founder of Digg and Revision3

Robert Kevin Rose (born 1977) is an American Internet entrepreneur who co-founded Revision3, Digg, Pownce and Milk. He also served as production assistant and co-host on TechTV's The Screen Savers, and from 2012 to 2015 was a venture partner at GV. In 2025 Rose re-purchased Digg with Alexis Ohanian and relaunched it, initially as a competitor to Reddit, before returning its focus to news aggregation. Rose was born in California and lived in Oregon before his family moved to Las Vegas, where he spent most of his childhood. He became an Eagle Scout, transferred to Southeast Career Technical Academy in Las Vegas in 1992, and studied computer science at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, dropping out in 1998. He worked for two dot-com startups through CMGI. Rose, Owen Byrne, Ron Gorodetzky and Jay Adelson formed Digg, a technology link website that launched publicly on December 5, 2004; in 2007 he was named to the MIT Technology Review TR35 as one of the world's top 35 innovators under 35. Sources: English Wikipedia (Kevin Rose, accessed September 2026).

Basic Information

Co-founder, Digg, Revision3, Pownce and Milk

Company Details

Digg / Revision3 / Pownce / Milk

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