Justin Kan
American internet entrepreneur · United States · On the map · Business Professionals · Born 1983 · age 43
He strapped a webcam to his head in 2007 and livestreamed his entire life, 24/7, for eight months - an experiment that became the seed for Twitch, the platform that turned video game streaming into a billion-dollar industry.
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A typical day, 30 days to 9 November 2026
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Justin Kan was born July 16, 1983. He co-founded Justin.tv as a lifecasting experiment, broadcasting everything he did around the clock, which drew widespread attention and eventually pivoted into Twitch, the live video platform that redefined gaming culture online. He also co-founded Socialcam, a mobile video app, and later became a partner at Y Combinator. In 2020 his law-tech startup Atrium shut down after he'd served as CEO. By 2021 he'd launched Fractal, an NFT marketplace later renamed Stash in 2024, and started The Drop, a Reddit-style platform for electronic music discovery. The thread through it all: he kept building new ways for people to watch, share, and find each other online.
