This city 's anti-tech backlash took a new turn Sunday when protesters lashed out at Google Ventures partner Kevin Rose , waving banners outside his home while demanding that Google fund `` anti-capitalist '' communities in the Bay Area . Claiming to represent service workers , the protesters handed out fliers in the city 's Potrero Hill neighborhood that called Rose a `` parasite '' and blamed him for helping fuel the `` tech startup bubble that is destroying San Francisco . '' The episode was the latest in a wave of anti-tech-industry protests that have been picking up steam in this city over the past year . Protesters complain an influx of highly paid tech workers is driving up rents , forcing out longtime residents and robbing the city of its famously eccentric character . Most of the anti-tech fervor has focused on big-name companies such as Google and Twitter and the private bus systems that ferry their employees from the city to various corporate headquarters in Silicon Valley . It 's rarer for the protests to target specific people , although in January an unidentified group protested at the Berkeley home of a Google engineer best known for helping develop the company 's self-driving car . The 37-year-old Rose is probably best known as the co-founder of Digg , the news aggregation site he helped launch in 2004 . After Rose 's last startup was acquired by Google , he went to work at Google Ventures , where he helps decide which startups the company 's venture-capital arm will invest in . The protesters claim such funding encourages too many young , wealthy entrepreneurs to move to the Bay Area . Rose met the protesters head-on by posting an image of their flier to Instagram and Twitter . In a tweet Sunday he noted as `` odd '' their use of Google products , such as Android phones and YouTube , to tape and share videos of the protests . But he also said he agreed with the protesters in part . `` We need to solve rising rents , keep the SF culture , and crack down on landlords booting folks out , '' Rose tweeted . `` SF is such a great place , definitely need to figure out a way to keep the diversity . '' A local group called Counterforce appears to have claimed responsibility for the protest , posting a lengthy screed about Rose on a blog , kevinroseisaterribleperson.wordpress.com . The post demands that Google give $ 3 billion to an anarchist organization so it can `` create autonomous , anti-capitalist , and anti-racist communities throughout the Bay Area and Northern California . '' Google has not yet publicly responded to the demand .
Protesters targeted Digg exec Twitter home Sunday . They are angry about gentrification , influx of high-paid tech workers in Potrero Hill . The group demanded $ 3 billion from Google to set up `` anti-capitalist '' communities . Rose co-founded Google , the news-aggregation site , before going to Google .