Kevin Rose Will Join Google

Huh. It was just yesterday that they shut down Oink to "work on other ideas"- so that was a total lie? Heaven forbid they should just be straightforward about what's going on.

As someone who'd love some VC money, it's a little disheartening to see $1.7 million of it thrown around and wasted based on one person's name.

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Post by AznHisoka » Thu, Mar 15, 2012, 5:16 PM UTC

"Rose has also had an impressive run as an angel investor, putting money into companies like Fab, Zynga, ngmoco, Foursquare and Twitter."

Does anyone know if Rose was one of the first few to actually invest in these companies, or did he just have the connections and put his money in while they were already "hot" companies? If the latter, I wouldn't consider it that impressive...

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Post by jgrahamc » Thu, Mar 15, 2012, 5:16 PM UTC

Feels like a Google-jumped-the-shark moment.

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Post by hinathan » Thu, Mar 15, 2012, 5:16 PM UTC

Did not see that coming. This seems like an odd route for to Google add depth to Plus.

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Post by _sentient » Thu, Mar 15, 2012, 5:18 PM UTC

As his last couple startups (Digg + Milk) have seen fairly bumpy roads of late, I can't blame him for wanting to leave the startup scene in favor of a little stability, courtesy of Google.

It will be interesting to see what role he ends up playing at Google. He's not much of a developer, so I suspect his role will largely be a promotional one.

Either way, I wish him luck with this latest endeavor. Having seen the Digg implosion, followed by the failure of Oink, I hope this third venture proves to be the charm.

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Mar 15, 2012, 5:18 PM UTC

untog wrote: post #5

Huh. It was just yesterday that they shut down Oink to "work on other ideas"- so that was a total lie? Heaven forbid they should just be straightforward about what's going on. As someone who'd love some VC money, it's a little disheartening to see $1.7 million of it thrown around and wasted based on one person's name.

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