Kevin Rose worked his way up from being a behind the scenes IT guy to doing cameos to running the Screen Savers to founding Digg[1]. Is he a coder? No, but he's at least technical enough to find and recruit pretty good engineering talent. Moreover, he's also had strong angel investments and shown an ability to do it again with Oink (a solid product with good reviews on the App Store).
As a developer, I hate these kinds of people because more
often than not their ideas suck.
But Digg obviously did not suck as an idea. It did not achieve world domination, but it was pretty damn popular as a site for a while and the category (as exemplified by Reddit and even the Like Button) is still strong.
There are people out there to hate on, but Kevin Rose is not one of them. He would be a great product manager at Google.
I'd go one step further: don't hate. It's a negative feeling emotion that will do yourself more harm in the long run :) Be happy for people's success. Would you want people to hate you when you succeed?
There are people out there to hate on, but Kevin Rose is not one of them. He would be a great product manager at Google.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Rose