Justin Kan net worth: Justin Kan, an American inventor and businessman, has a net worth in excess of $100 million. Justin Kan has co-founded the live video streaming platforms Twitch.tv and Justin.tv. Kan is also the co-founder of Socialcam, a mobile social media platform. Kan is a partner at Y Combinator which is a venture capital firm. He's tried broadcasting throughout his entire life. This led to the term "lifecasting". He also started The Drop which is a digital music discovery site that is akin to Reddit. Justin Kan is a contributor to the technology news website TechCrunch. He graduated with degrees in physics and philosophy from Yale University. He also founded the platform for outsourcing Exec in 2012 which was purchased in 2014 by Handybook. He launched his 24-7 live stream Justin.tv in 2007 and lifecasting was in operation for approximately eight months before being closed in 2014. Amazon.com bought Twitch for $970 million in 2014. Twitch had raised more than $45 million in numerous rounds of investments which substantially reduced each owner's stake. Each of the four founders of Twitch held about 12.5 percent of Twitch at the time it was purchased.
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