Kevin Rose is an entrepreneur who founded Digg, co-founded PROOF Collective with Justin Mezzell, and is a partner at True Ventures. Kevin Rose's Twitter Score is 519 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of July 2026, ranking him #313 out of 389,587 accounts tracked on this platform. Kevin Rose ranks #313 (top 0.1%) out of 389,000+ tracked accounts on TwitterScore.
Kevin Rose co-founded PROOF Collective, which launched Moonbirds, a 10,000-piece NFT collection that recorded $281 million in sales as of April 2022; he said PROOF would use those proceeds to build a new media company. In January 2023, he was reported as the victim of a phishing scam that resulted in the loss of valuable NFTs, with no wrongdoing alleged against him.
Kevin Rose re-purchased Digg alongside Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian in 2025 and relaunched it as a social news platform, where he now works as chairman. The platform's open beta launched January 14, 2026 before entering a hard reset in March 2026 after AI bot spam and moderation issues; he was set to return as a full-time employee in April 2026 to support the rebuild. He previously worked at GV as a venture partner from 2012 to 2015, and has also co-founded Revision3, Pownce, and Milk.
Kevin Rose co-hosts Diggnation, rebooted in 2024, along with The Kevin Rose Show and The Random Show, produced with Tim Ferriss. Kevin Rose has 1,496,618 followers as of July 2026 and has published 15,121 posts. He has been mentioned by 1,347 accounts, totaling 3,814 mentions. His tracked portfolio includes stacks.btc, Universe and Quantum Art.
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Kevin Rose draws a diverse following across tech and crypto. The accounts that follow Kevin Rose include 1,934 founders, 396 angel investors, 1,039 influencers and 159 VCs, among them Chris Dixon, Toly, Sam Altman, Cobie, Ansem and 6529.