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After leading Digg for 5+ years, Kevin Rose talks about walking away. After a healthy amount of angel investing, he and some friends started dreaming up new ideas. Their first product wasn't Oink it was Pica, a browser based Chrome plugin that helped users all see what each other was browsing at that moment. They killed it before it ever launched but here Kevin tells the story about its creation and where the idea for Oink originally came from. Video after the jump.
For the past 15 years Derek has been building communities. He is the co-founder/CEO of Bevy, a SaaS product that helps companies like Salesforce, Atlassian, Google, Snowflake, and Adobe build virtual and in-person communities. Bevy has raised $60M from Accel, Upfront Ventures, and others. He co-founded Startup Grind, a community of 600 Chapters in 125 countries educating, inspiring, and connecting startup people. Since 2012 Startup Grind has hosted 20,000 events. In 2010 he co-founded Commonred which was acquired by Income.com. Derek also previously worked as a product manager at Electronic Arts. He currently lives in Palo Alto CA with his wife and four children.
After leading Digg for 5+ years, Kevin Rose talks about walking away. After a healthy amount of angel investing, he and some friends started dreaming up new ideas. Their first product wasn't Oink it was Pica, a browser based Chrome plugin that helped users all see what each other was browsing at that moment. They killed it before it ever launched but here Kevin tells the story about its creation and where the idea for Oink originally came from. Video after the jump.