{"id":337494,"date":"2017-04-04T04:04:45","date_gmt":"2017-04-03T20:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/?p=1472119"},"modified":"2017-04-04T04:04:45","modified_gmt":"2017-04-03T20:04:45","slug":"kevin-rose-is-going-back-to-cali-and-joining-true-ventures-as-a-venture-partner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/kevin-rose-is-going-back-to-cali-and-joining-true-ventures-as-a-venture-partner\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Rose is going back to Cali \u2014 and joining True Ventures as a venture partner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/09\/kevin-rose1.jpg?w=738\" class=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Entrepreneur-investor Kevin Rose is relinquishing his role as CEO of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hodinkee.com\/\">Hodinkee<\/a>, a New York-based site for wristwatch enthusiasts, and moving back to California.<\/p>\n<p>According to a newly published <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@kevinrose\/nyc-sf-d8c58955fe8b\">Medium post<\/a>, Rose\u00a0will work as a venture partner at the early-stage venture firm <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/trueventures.com\/\">True Ventures<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\">Rose was famously the co-founder of Digg, the once-popular link-sharing message board that was later sold to Betaworks for <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2012\/07\/12\/betaworks-acquires-digg\/\">not much<\/a>. By the time of its 2012 sale, Rose had already formed and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2012\/03\/20\/technology\/startups\/Google-Digg-Milk\/\">sold<\/a> his own startup incubator, Milk, to Google in an apparent acqui-hire, and was working for its venture arm, now called GV.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\">Rose later started another incubator, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.n-o-r-t-h-t-e-c-h-n-o-l-o-g-i-e-s.com\/\">North Technologies<\/a>, creating a news aggregation app focused on wristwatches that he merged with Hodinkee. He moved to Manhattan after that.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\">Now, Hodinkee founder\u00a0Benjamin Clymer is returning to his former role of CEO, and Rose is off to the Bay Area offices of True Ventures, which, not coincidentally, is Hodinkee\u2019s largest <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ticktocking.com\/blog\/hodinkee-hires-kevin-rose-and-raises-3-6-million\">outside shareholder<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\">Indeed, it\u2019s the firm\u2019s \u201cstrong core values\u201d and \u201capproach to supporting founders\u201d that\u2019s drawing Rose\u00a0there, he said in his Medium post.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\">Rose said he also plans to continue \u201ccreating products that improve people\u2019s lives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Presumably, some of that work will center on his newest app, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/zero-fasting-tracker\/id1168348542?mt=8\">Zero<\/a>, which aims to help people who are fasting from food. Rose <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@kevinrose\/introducing-zero-a-new-app-to-help-you-fast-209935e8245d\">announced<\/a> the app to the world in late December.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"680\" height=\"453\" src=\"https:\/\/tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/09\/kevin-rose1.jpg?w=680\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/09\/kevin-rose1.jpg?w=680 680w, https:\/\/tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/09\/kevin-rose1.jpg?w=1360 1360w, https:\/\/tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/09\/kevin-rose1.jpg?w=150 150w, https:\/\/tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/09\/kevin-rose1.jpg?w=300 300w, https:\/\/tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/09\/kevin-rose1.jpg?w=768 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/>&nbsp;Entrepreneur-investor Kevin Rose is relinquishing his role as CEO of Hodinkee, a New York-based site for wristwatch enthusiasts, and moving back to California. According to a newly published Medium post, Rose will work as a venture partner at the early-stage venture firm True Ventures. <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2017\/04\/03\/kevin-rose-is-going-back-to-cali-and-joining-true-ventures-as-venture-partner\/?ncid=rss\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Techcrunch?a=-eB2jadJRBE:q-4f0FXiIJc:2mJPEYqXBVI\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Techcrunch?d=2mJPEYqXBVI\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Techcrunch?a=-eB2jadJRBE:q-4f0FXiIJc:7Q72WNTAKBA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Techcrunch?d=7Q72WNTAKBA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Techcrunch?a=-eB2jadJRBE:q-4f0FXiIJc:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Techcrunch?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Techcrunch?a=-eB2jadJRBE:q-4f0FXiIJc:-BTjWOF_DHI\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Techcrunch?i=-eB2jadJRBE:q-4f0FXiIJc:-BTjWOF_DHI\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Techcrunch?a=-eB2jadJRBE:q-4f0FXiIJc:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Techcrunch?i=-eB2jadJRBE:q-4f0FXiIJc:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Techcrunch?a=-eB2jadJRBE:q-4f0FXiIJc:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Techcrunch?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Techcrunch\/~4\/-eB2jadJRBE\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5817,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[59,66,26],"class_list":["post-337494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-media","tag-techcrunch","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}