[3] Rose was born in Redding, California[4] and lived in Oregon before his family moved to Las Vegas, Nevada, where he spent most of his childhood.

He began appearing on-air in the "Dark Tip" segments and on Unscrewed with Martin Sargent, where he provided information on developing computing activities.

On March 25, 2004, Comcast's G4 gaming channel announced a merger with TechTV, which resulted in a round of layoffs.

On May 22, 2005, Rose reached an agreement with G4 that released him from his contract and went on to create Systm and later, Revision3, where he co-hosted Diggnation alongside Alex Albrecht for 6 years.

[9] On March 11, 2009, April 16, 2010, and November 28, 2011, Rose was a guest on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, along with fellow Diggnation host Alex Albrecht.

[10][11][12] Rose began his career in web video (or IPTV) on July 24, 2003, with the release of the first episode of thebroken[13] while he was still working on The Screen Savers at TechTV.

[citation needed] On July 1, 2005, Rose and Alex Albrecht started the weekly podcast, Diggnation, which summarizes top stories submitted by Digg users.

[17] In 2004, Rose, Owen Byrne, Ron Gorodetzky, and Jay Adelson formed Digg, a technology link website.

[30] Rose invested in Gowalla, Twitter, Foursquare, Dailybooth, ngmoco, SimpleGeo, 3crowd, OMGPOP, Square, Facebook, Chomp and Formspring.

[41] On February 28, 2014, Rose and his wife Darya Pino purchased an 1892 house at 1627 Northwest 32nd Avenue in the Willamette Heights area of Portland, Oregon.

[42] On June 24, 2014, it was reported that the Roses had accepted an offer from long-time neighborhood residents to buy the house,[43] with the deal closing for $1.375 million USD.