Education
Kan graduated from Yale University in 2005 with degrees in physics and philosophy.
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He is a partner at venture capital firm His attempt to broadcast his entire life at popularized the term "lifecasting". Kan also started a Reddit-style electronic music discovery platform, He also contributes to the technology news site TechCrunch and co-founded Kiko Software, the first ajax based online calendar, with Emmett Shear. Kan"s "lifecasting" lasted about eight months.
The novelty of Kan"s concept attracted media attention, and resulting interviews with him included one by Ann Curry on the Today Show.
Afterward, the company decided to transition to providing a live video platform so anyone could publish a live video stream., the platform, launched in 2007 and was one of the largest live video platforms in the world with more than 30 million unique users every month. was closed on August 5, 2014, in an effort to focus further on "s parent company,
After launched in 2006, the site quickly began building subject-specific content categories like Social, Technical, Sports, Entertainment, News & Events, Gaming and others
Gaming, in particular, grew very fast and became the most popular content on the site. The company then decided to spin off the gaming content under a separate brand at a separate site.
They named it television, inspired by the term twitch gameplay.
lieutenant launched officially in public beta on June 6, 2011. television was acquired by Amazon.com in August 2014 for $970 Million. Launched March 7, 2011. is a mobile social video application for iPhone and Android.
lieutenant allows users to capture and share video online and on mobile, as well as via Facebook, Twitter, and other social networks.
On July 17, 2012, Autodesk agreed to acquire for $60M. The application has eclipsed 2 million downloads and has continued to add features list, most notably with the addition of video filters. Justin Kan launched (errand service) on February 29, 2012, a new service to allow anyone to outsource anything you want for $25/hour. was purchased by Handybook, a company founded by Oisin Hanrahan, Umang Dua, Ignacio Leonhardt, and Weina Scott, in an all stock transaction January 2014.
Kan became a partner at in March 2014, where he offers advice to the new startups in each batch. Is a Reddit-style electronic music discovery platform that launched early 2015.
Users can post and up-vote community curated and sourced tracks.
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He was a member of the first batch of YC-funded startups in 2005 for Kiko Calendar, and was funded by YC again for and
