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Justin Kan, Founder & CEO of Twitch.TV
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Justin Kan is an American Internet entrepreneur and investor. He is the co-founder of live video platforms Justin.tv and Twitch.tv, as well as the mobile social video application Socialcam. He is a partner at venture capital firm Y Combinator. His attempt to broadcast his entire life at Justin.tv popularized the term "lifecasting". Most recently Justin started an electronic music discovery platform thedrop.club. The Drop is a reddit-style website where users can post and up-vote the tracks they like.
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