Justin Kan

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Justin Kan is an extraordinary web developer, investor, and entrepreneur. Kan is the co-founder of Twitch, the number one video game streaming platform now owned by Amazon.

Justin Kan in American web developer, investor, and entrepreneur, he is best known as a co-founder of Twitch and who is the CEO and co-founder of Atrium, a corporate law firm and technology company.

Justin Kan’s first startup was an online calendar company called Kiko that he founded with Emmett Shear in 2005. He co-founded Socialcam, a social video recording, editing, and sharing mobile application, which was later bought by Autodesk. Kan then founded Exec, an on-demand service that provided access to cleaning services and personal assistants for furniture assembly, purchased by Handybook. Later, he founded The Drop, a Reddit-style electronic music discovery platform and Whale an online question and answer community.

Justin Kan started Justin.tv, which became Twitch, the popular video game streaming platform, which was later acquired by Amazon for $970 million. After selling Twitch to Amazon, Kan left the company to become a partner at Y Combinator, the start-up incubator that’s helped launch successful startups like Dropbox, Instacart, Coinbase, DoorDash, Cruise Automation, Airbnb, and Stripe. He later left Y Combinator to start his own incubator, Zero-F. 

Justin Kan launched Atrium, a technology-first law firm that provided real estate property sales and related consulting services until 2020.

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