Kevin Rose: His $100M/Year Watch Blog, Money From Digg.com, & We…
About This Episode
Sam and Shaan interview internet pioneer Kevin Rose about his career journey from founding Digg to building a $100M/year watch empire with Hodinkee. The discussion explores his early angel investments in Twitter and Square, his current NFT venture Proof, and his predictions for how AI will disrupt creative industries.
Episode Description
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
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- 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.
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- 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
Links
- * Kevin Rose
- * DIGG
- * Proof
- * Hodinkee
- * agelessRx
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Key Takeaways
The content-to-commerce model succeeds by hiring technical 'geeks' who build extreme trust with an audience, allowing the business to sell high-ticket items like luxury watches with high conversion.
Monitor where high-quality engineering talent is moving as a leading indicator for the next big industry; currently, a massive pivot of top engineers toward AI suggests a total transformation of creative markets.
When a project has clear utility but hasn't reached explosive growth, use 'maintenance mode' to let it grow organically with minimal overhead until the market matures, as seen with the Zero fasting app.