Justin Kan

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Last activity: 08.01.2025

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Jan 8, 2025	Qualified Health Raises $30M in Seed Funding	Qualified Health, a Palo Alto, CA-based public benefit corporation providing the infrastructure for generative AI in healthcare, raised $30M in Seed funding. Backers included SignalFire, Healthier Capital, Town Hall Ventures, Frist Cressey ...
Mar 6, 2017	Justin Kan launches his own startup incubator program called Zero-F	Serial entrepreneur Justin Kan, best known for co-founding Twitch, Justin.tv and Socialcam, has left his position as a partner at Y Combinator to start his own startup incubator program. The venture is called Zero-F — think ‘zero to funding...
Nov 18, 2016	4 Common Mistakes Young Entrepreneurs Make (And How To Fix Them)	Of all the companies founded each year, only a fraction survive. Even a smaller percentage of those make it five years. Clearly, building a company is no easy task. As young entrepreneurs, perhaps the biggest advantage we have is an irratio...
May 11, 2016	Justin Kan accepts Y Combinator Fellowship pitches over Snapchat	One of the latest Snapchat trends (at least in our little tech bubble) is venture capitalists using the social media platform as a way to dish out advice to aspiring entrepreneurs. People like Mark Suster, Gary Vaynerchuk and Justin Kan pre...
Apr 28, 2016	Video consumption on Snapchat more than doubled in less than a year	Snapchat may have started out as the ephemeral messaging and photo-sharing app, but a majority of users now consume video there too, according to a report from Bloomberg today. Daily video views on Snapchat have spiked to 10 billion, the re...
Feb 19, 2016	Startup Advice I’ve Given On Snapchat	In a way, Snapchat Stories is the platform we always wanted to create when we founded Justin.tv back in 2007. For weekly recaps of The Macro, sign up here. It’s a lightweight platform for sharing whatever is on your mind with a broad, you...
Feb 4, 2016	Justin Kan Is Hiring Someone To Revive Justin.tv On Snapchat	Justin Kan, the founder of Justin.tv — the online video portal that eventually became video game streaming giant Twitch — is restarting the service on Snapchat 18 months after it was shut down. Twitch was bought by Amazon for just shy of $1...
Feb 3, 2016	Justin.tv creator returns to his roots on Snapchat	Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more. Justin Kan, the entrepreneur behind the pioneering webcast project Justin.tv, has decided to reboot the concept on ephemeral messaging ...
Feb 3, 2016	Justin.tv creator returns to his roots on Snapchat	Justin Kan, the entrepreneur behind the pioneering webcast project Justin.tv, has decided to reboot the concept on ephemeral messaging service Snapchat. Kan, fresh off a multimillion dollar payday as one of the founders of the video game fo...
Jan 11, 2016	The White House Joins Snapchat	After expanding access to President Obama’s State of the Union address by making it available on Amazon for on-demand streaming, the White House is now targeting the younger demographic with the launch of an official account on social media...
Apr 14, 2015	The 6 Most Important Roles of a Startup CEO	April 14, 2015 6 min read Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Founding and growing an industry-transforming company is probably one of the hardest things anyone could ever do, and the hardest part about it is that...
Oct 31, 2014	Justin Kan's epic year: Selling Twitch for $1B, joining Y Combinator, and building an art car	Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more. VIENNA, Austria — By anyone’s definition, Justin Kan has had a monster year in 2014. It started with Kan selling his startup Exec to Ha...
Oct 31, 2014	Justin Kan's epic year: Selling Twitch for $1B, joining Y Combinator, and building an art car	VIENNA, Austria — By anyone’s definition, Justin Kan has had a monster year in 2014. It started with Kan selling his startup Exec to Handybook in an all-stock deal (the amount was undisclosed). Then, in June, he joined Y Combinator as a par...
May 4, 2013	How to do anything	We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today! Many people, when faced with doing something new ...
Mar 2, 2013	If you set good defaults, you (& your users) will build good habits	Setting up good default behavior is very important. In fact, most people never change the default settings for the things they use. For software designers, this means investing time thinking about what you want to happen if nothing changes....
Jan 10, 2013	Happiness Is This Gif Of Paul Graham “Making It Rain”	Here is a delightful gif of Y Combinator’s Paul Graham throwing what looks like $50 up in the air, “making it rain” as the kids would say. For those of you unfamiliar with the term, or Lil Wayne, here is Urban Dictionary’s definition of the...
Jun 8, 2012	It’s Not A Bursting Bubble. It’s a Correction And It Will Take Awhile.	After disappointing post-IPO performances from Facebook, Groupon and Zynga, there’s been a clarion call from top investors like Union Square’s Fred Wilson, Y Combinator’s Paul Graham and Kleiner Perkins’ Mary Meeker for everyone to simmer d...

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