Justin Kan net worth: Justin Kan is an American inventor and entrepreneur with a an estimated net worth of $100 million. Justin Kan is co-founder of the live video platforms Twitch.tv as well as Justin.tv. Kan was also the co-founder of Socialcam which is a mobile-based social video platform. Kan is a partner in Y Combinator which is a venture capital firm. Kan has attempted to broadcast his entire life, which gave rise to the term "lifecasting". He also launched The Drop which is a similar to the Reddit style of electronic music discovery. Justin Kan is a contributor to the technology news website TechCrunch. Yale University awarded him degrees in philosophy and physics. Handybook purchased Exec, his outsourcing platform in 2012. Live streaming 24-7 Justin.tv was first launched in 2007. It ran for 8 months before he closed it in 2014. Amazon.com purchased Twitch for $970 million in 2014. Twitch had raised more than $45 million from several rounds of investments , which reduced the stake of each owner significantly. It's estimated that each of the four Twitch founders owned around 12.5 percent of Twitch at the time it went public.
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