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Justin Kan - Twitch Co-founder Explains Why Amazon Bought Twitch For $970 Million

Apr 5, 2021
33:38
Justin Kan is an American internet entrepreneur and investor who co-founded the law-tech company Atrium where he served as CEO. He is the co-founder of live video platforms Justin.tv and Twitch, as well as the mobile social video application Socialcam.  He was formerly a partner at Silicon Valley incubator Y Combinator. His attempt to broadcast his entire life at Justin.tv popularized the term "lifecasting". Kan also started a Reddit-style electronic music discovery platform, The Drop.  He also contributes to the technology news site TechCrunch and co-founded Kiko Software, an Ajax based online calendar, with Emmett Shear. Kan graduated from Yale University in 2005 with degrees in physics and philosophy.  On March 2019, along with Steve Chen he became advisor to Theta, a peer to peer video streaming platform that uses blockchain technology.   Subscribe to Justin Kan on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfRtwc6K_VU9N4OjNnU2P7g​ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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