Justin Kan net worth
Justin Kan Net Worth: Justin Kan is an American entrepreneur and inventor who has a net worth of $100 million. Justin Kan co-founded live video platforms Twitch.tv and Justin.tv. He also co-founded Socialcam, a mobile social video application. Kan is a partner at venture capital firm Y Combinator.
His attempt to broadcast his entire life led to the term “lifecasting”. He also founded The Drop, a Reddit-style electronic music discovery platform. Justin Kan is a contributor to tech news site TechCrunch. He holds degrees in physics and philosophy from Yale University. He also launched outsourcing platform Exec in 2012, which was acquired by Handybook in 2014. He launched Justin.tv, a 24-7 hour stream in 2007, which lasted about 8 months before shutting down in 2014. In 2014, Twitch was acquired by Amazon for $970 million. Twitch has raised more than $45 million through several investment rounds that have significantly diluted each owner’s stake. It is estimated that each of the four Twitch founders owned about 12.5% of Twitch at the time of the sale. That means Justin’s pretax deduction is about $120 million.
