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  • Big KC: Meet Marc Hemeon, designer behind Google’s biggest projects

    Since the 2011 acquisition, Hemeon has influenced some of Google’s largest projects to date and quickly became a sought-after designer. He led YouTube’s 2012 sitewide redesign. He has since worked on design for Chromecast, Google Analytics and Google X’s self driving car project. Just last month, Google Ventures named him Entrepreneur in Residence.

  • Kevin Rose’s talk in a 5-minute Tapestry recap

    Don’t have 30 minutes to watch a Big Omaha speaker video? No problem. Our friends at Tapestry have compiled many of the highlights of our speaker talks into easily digestible, readable presentations. Be on the lookout over the next week, as we’ll be sharing a Tapestry for each of our speakers. It’s simple: tap to…

  • Kevin Rose brings the Diggnation atmosphere to Big Omaha chat

    Kevin Rose has made innumerable entrepreneurial leaps in the tech industry throughout the years, first as the founder of Digg and today as a general partner at Google Ventures where he focuses on early-stage and seed investments. Big Omaha emcee Antonio Neves sat down with Rose to chat about meditation, past successes and the tension…

  • Big Omaha’s Kevin Rose has turned his Digg roots into investment success

    Over the past decade, Kevin Rose has had a career marked with accomplishments that shaped the internet experience of many. Now, not only his ideas, but investment in the ideas of others have made an immeasurable impact on the tech industry. In 2004, Kevin founded the social news website, Digg. What began as an experiment soon…

  • Big Omaha’s Darya Rose: Equal parts neuroscientist, Summer Tomato

    She’s an acclaimed author and award-winning researcher with a Ph.D. in neuroscience. She also is a self-proclaimed geek who shamelessly shares her love of Zelda and photos of her “insanely adorable” mini-labradoodle (and pics of her with Michelle Obama and LeBron James, all within the month of February). Equal parts intellectual and lighthearted, scholarly and…

  • Digg founder, “Foodist” author and two more join Big Omaha lineup

    Today we’re thrilled to announce the next four speakers joining the 2014 Big Omaha lineup. Kevin Rose (@kevinrose) is the founder of Digg, co-founder of Revision3, Pownce and Milk, and general partner at Google Ventures …

  • Tahoe Tech Talk recap and takeaways

    (Photo by Adam Copek via Flickr) This past weekend I attended Vaynermedia’s Tahoe Tech Talk event at Harrah’s Lake Tahoe. The event kicked off with a reception on Thursday evening for the 150 attendees. On Friday, we heard from the eight speakers: Gary Vaynerchuk (host and moderator), Kevin Rose, Chris Sacca, Dave Morin, Travis Kalanick,…

  • Kevin Rose on surviving the downturn

    After reading the article in Kevin Rose in Inc. I ran across an article in Wired Magazine on Rose’s recommendations for surviving the economic downturn.  Take a look… Digg founder Kevin Rose says this is the best time to launch a company, even if the economy is going to hell, venture capital for web startups…