Justin Kan
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Justin Kan (born July 16, 1983) is an American Internet entrepreneur and investor who is currently the CEO and co-founder of the law-tech company Atrium.
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.
Career
Justin Kan and his partners Emmett Shear, Michael Seibel, and Kyle Vogt created Justin.tv, a 24–7 live video stream of Kan's life on video, which was broadcast via a webcam attached to his head. Kan was 23 years old at the time.
Kan's "lifecasting" lasted about eight months. Kan's theory attracted media attention, and subsequent interviews with him included one by Ann Curry on the Today Show. Kan was accompanied by viewers as he walked San Francisco's streets, being frequently involved in both planned activities (trapeze lesson, dance lesson) and spontaneous situations (being welcomed into the local Scientology center by a pedestrian recruiter).
Since then, the company migrated to a live video stream so that anyone could post a live video stream. Justin.tv, the website, was launched in 2007 and was one of the world's biggest live video entertainment websites with more than 30 million unique viewers per month.
Justin.tv's parent company, Twitch, was closed on August 5, 2014 in an attempt to concentrate further on Justin.tv's parent company, Twitch.
Since Justin.tv launched in 2007, the site quickly began creating subtopic content categories such as Social, Tech, Sports, Entertainment, News & Events, and others. In particular, gaming soared quickly and became the most popular piece on the site.
The company then decided to spin off the gaming assets under separate banner at a different location. TwitchTV was based on the word twitch gameplay. On June 6, 2011, it went into public beta for the first time.
Amazon.com bought Twitch in August 2014 for $970 million.
Socialcam, a 2012 amateur camera, was released by Autodesk on July 17, 2012 for $60 million and was discontinued by Autodesk on October 28, 2015. Socialcam, a smartphone and tablet camera that enabled users to capture and publish video online and on mobile, as well as Facebook, Twitter, and other social media networks.
At one point, the application eclipsed 2 million downloads and continued to add to its features list, most notably with the introduction of video filters.
Justin Kan's Exec service opened in February 29, 2012, allowing anyone to outsource anything they need for $25/hour. Daniel Kan, the former head of UserVoice business growth, and Stanford graduate Amir Ghazvinian co-founded Exec.
Handybook, a company founded by Oisin Hanrahan, Umang Dua, Ignacio Leonhardt, and Weina Scott, bought Exec in an all-stock deal in January 2014.
Kan was one of the first batch of YC-funded startups in 2005 for Kiko Calendar, and YC has now sponsored Justin.tv and Exec. Kan became a partner at Y Combinator in March 2014, where he gave tips to the new startups in each batch. Kan left Y Combinator in March 2017 to begin Zero-F, his own incubator.
The Drop is a Reddit-style electronic music discovery system that debuted early 2015. Users can post and up vote on a variety of topics, as well as hosted and sourced tracks. Kan and his college buddy Ranidu Lankage founded the organisation.
Atrium was first announced in Kan officially in 2017. Kan raised $10.5 million in a first "party" round of investment led by General Catalyst. In September 2018, Kan raised a $65 million funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz. Andrew Chen, Marc Andreessen, and Michael Seibel joined the Atrium board of directors at the time. In March 2020, Atrium halted operations.
In 2021, Justin Kan founded a YouTube channel. On OpenSea, he revealed in February 2021 that one can buy his YouTube videos as non-fungible tokens.
Justin Kan launched Fractal.is in December 2021 as a marketplace for players to purchase Solana-based NFTs directly from game shops as well as a secondary marketplace for peer-to-peer trading. Fractal's seed round, led by Paradigm and Multicoin Capital, raised $35 million in April 2022. Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Solana Labs, Animoca Brands, Coinbase Ventures, and Terraform Labs CEO Do Kwon are among the other investors.