Justin Kan
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| Born | July 16, 1983 | ||||||||||
| Alma mater | Yale University | ||||||||||
| Occupation | Investor | ||||||||||
| Known for | Co-founding Twitch | ||||||||||
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| Subscribers | 168,000 | ||||||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 簡彥豪 | ||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 简彦豪 | ||||||||||
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Last updated: June 18, 2021 | |||||||||||
| Website | justinkan | ||||||||||
Justin Kan (born July 16, 1983) is an American internet entrepreneur and investor. He is the co-founder of live video platforms Justin.tv and Twitch, as well as the mobile social video application Socialcam. He was also the co-founder and former CEO of law-tech company Atrium before it was shut down in March 2020. In 2021, he launched NFT marketplace Fractal, which was renamed to Stash in 2024.
He was a partner at Silicon Valley incubator Y Combinator. He gained widespread attention for his "lifecasting" experiment on Justin.tv, where he attempted to broadcast his entire life. Kan also started a Reddit-style electronic music discovery platform, The Drop.