Kevin Rose Biography and Photos

Robert Kevin Rose (born February 21, 1977 in California) is an entrepreneur who first became well known as an on-air talent and later as a co-host working on TechTV's popular show The Screen Savers (which later became Attack of the Show! on G4) until his departure from the network on May 22, 2005. Rose is also well known for his Internet start-ups that he has co-founded: Revision3, Pownce, and most notably the social-bookmarking website Digg.

Rose was born in California and lived in Oregon for a brief period before his family moved to Las Vegas, Nevada. Most of his childhood was spent in Las Vegas. As a child, he was a member of the Boy Scouts of America and became an Eagle Scout. His first experience with computers began at the age of 8 when his father purchased a Gateway 80386 SX 16. Rose soon got in to the world of BBS in the late 1980s. Eventually he was running a two-node Wildcat! BBS (and PCBoard) with a CD-ROM full of shareware for people to access.

Rose transferred to Vo-Tech High School in Las Vegas in 1992 to study computers and animation. Upon graduation from high school, he attended the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, specializing in computer science, but dropped out in 1998 to pursue the '90s tech boom.[3] After dropping out, he worked for the Department of Energy, at the Nevada Test Site, as a technology advisor. He later worked for several dot-com startups through CMGI