Justin Kan
Founder at Justin.tv, Inc.
Justin Kan’s Exec Starts Running Errands For Companies And Startups Today
That’s the reason why Exec, the task-management service from Justin.tv founder Justin Kan, is opening corporate accounts today. Companies will be able to set up an account and allot a certain amount of money every month for employees to delegate errands they don’t want to do. If they ... Read more »
SocialCam Is Growing, But It’s The Latest Alum Startup Returning To Y Combinator Anyway
“It’s not a coincidence that a large number of YC alums come back to do YC again.” I would have never been introduced to the tech world it if wasn’t for my Justin.tv co-founders Justin Kan and Emmett Shear [alums of the very first YC class, via Kiko]. Justin.tv would never have gotten ... Read more »
Justin Kan On The First Two Weeks Of Exec
After graduating from Yale in 2005, Justin Kan went on to launch Kiko (acquired by Tucows in 2006) and Justin.TV, discover companies within his company with Justin.TV-spinoffs Socialcam and the remarkably popular Twitch.TV gaming portal, and became a part-time partner at Y Combinator. ... Read more »
Justin Kan’s Exec app is like Uber for odd jobs — Tech News and Analysis
Justin Kan, founder of live-streaming platform Justin.tv, has a new venture called Exec that aims to make hiring temporary help as seamless as possible. Launching to the public Wednesday, the Exec iPhone app will let users hire exec assistants to do their bidding at a flat rate of $25 an ... Read more »
Exec CEO Justin Kan Talks Competition, Cleaning, And Future Plans
Hot on the heels of Exec’s Cleaning Service launch in NYC, we couldn’t resist the opportunity to get CEO and co-founder Justin Kan in the studio for a quick chat. We also couldn’t resist checking out the service in action, and thusly hired Execs from the company’s standalone Cleaning app ... Read more »
Errand App Exec Gets A Web Redesign, Goes Beyond Bay Area With New San Diego Cleaning Service
Exec, the startup led by Justin.tv’s Justin Kan that lets you hire people for errands and cleaning, is getting a new look today. It’s also expanding beyond the San Francisco Bay Area for the first time by offering its cleaning service in San Diego. Kan told me that until now, Exec ... Read more »
With More Than 20M Gamers Tuning In, Twitch Raises $15M From Bessemer Venture Partners
And Justin.tv founder Justin Kan left to create his own startup, Exec, earlier this year. All of that has happened in just the last 12 months. The new funding will be used to build out Twitch’s engineering team, to meet demand for Twitch live streaming on a growing number of devices and ... Read more »
Exec, The Mobile App For Errands, Adds Messaging (Oh, And Sam Altman Led Their Round)
The app, which comes from a veteran team of Y Combinator alums including Justin.tv co-founder Justin Kan, can call up people (called “Execs”) to run basic errands instantaneously. There’s no bidding process and it costs $25 an hour for everything from delivering flowers to housecleaning ... Read more »
Microsoft PM “Resigns” Via Video, Joins Justin Kan’s New Startup Exec
→ Learn More Exec, the new TaskRabbit competitor from Justin.tv’s co-founder, Justin Kan, has just hired a new designer it seems. Or so she sings. In a video posted to YouTube by one Karen X. Cheng, she sings and strums – rather nicely, in fact – to the tune of “Bye, Bye Miss American ... Read more »
This 28-Year-Old Entrepreneur Just Left His Red-Hot Startup To Do It All Again
Justin Kan is second from the left. Justin Kan already has quite the track record. His second, Justin.tv, has turned into a runaway success since rebranding to Twitch.tv. Its traffic has doubled in the past six months. It now has more than 16 million unique visitors every month. ... Read more »
Underwear On Your Floor? YC’s Exec Has A House Cleaning Service For That
When Justin Kan first launched Exec, a service for getting errands done on demand, I was one of the first beta testers. We had a housecleaning and it took, well, six hours. Even though the Exec that came over had a fantastic attitude, it was clear that the startup had many kinks to iron ... Read more »
Exec, The YC-Backed Mobile App For Instantly Doing Your Errands, Raises $3.3M
The company’s co-founder Justin Kan, who is also behind Justin.tv, Twitch.tv and SocialCam, says he’s not ready to disclose investors yet, except to say that there are around 25 different individuals in the round. The filing only shows Exec’s team on it, so it’s hard to tell who the ... Read more »
The Hunt For An ‘Instagram For Video’ Is On, And Socialcam Is Aiming For The Crown
Socialcam was co-founded as a standalone entity by Justin.tv founder and namesake Justin Kan, former Justin.tv co-founder and CEO Seibel, and former Justin.tv senior engineer Ammon Bartram. Seibel and Bartram now serve as Socialcam’s CEO and CTO, respectively; Kan pulled away to work on ... Read more »
Want To Rent A Founder? Justin Kan’s Exec Is Making That Happen (For Charity)
You can reach him at rip[at]techcrunch[dot]com → Learn More Justin Kan is a busy guy. The serial entrepreneur is best known as the founder of Justin.tv, the online community that lets users broadcast, watch, and interact around video. Last year, he and team spun-off Twitch.tv, a ... Read more »
How Does Y Combinator Scale Y Combinator?
Plus there are part-time partners like Loopt co-founder Sam Altman and Justin.tv founders Emmett Shear and Justin Kan. They joined YC’s original partners Jessica Livingston, Trevor Blackwell and Robert Morris. “It turns out that this is almost perfectly parallelizable,” Graham said. “I ... Read more »
Lunch, disrupted: ZeroCater helps startups get fed — Tech News and Analysis
ZeroCater was part of last spring’s YCombinator class and raised $1.5 million last summer from investors like Keith Rabois, SV Angel, Start Fund, Stewart Alsop, Justin.tv founders Justin Kan and Emmett Shear, Alexander Goldstein and Starling Ventures. With financing in hand, it’s been ... Read more »
'Brogrammers' challenge coders' nerdy image
At San Francisco's Justin.tv, co-founder Justin Kan rides a motorcycle to work and listens to Swedish dubstep music on his headphones. "It's not like a frat house," Kan said. "My desk is the brogramming lounge. " Douglas Macmillan is a Bloomberg writer. dmacmillan3@bloomberg.net ... Read more »
Exec: It’s Like TaskRabbit With A Twist Of Uber
Justin Kan is no stranger to the startup scene. As Justin.TV’s namesake founder and the guy who found a company within his company with Twitch.TV, he’s already got two successes under his belt. Three, if you count the rarely mentioned (and sadly now defunct) Kiko, which was acquired by ... Read more »
Play video games for a living? TwitchTV is making it happen
When I spoke to Justin Kan, co-founder of Justin.tv and the original "lifecaster," he likened the phenomenon on TwitchTV to sports casting. Kan pointed out that people tune into sports casts to hear commentary and opinions on strategy or gameplay. In a country like South Korea, where the ... Read more »
Errand Service Exec Launches In San Diego, Redesigns Service
The startup, cofounded by Y Combinator and Justin.TV veteran Justin Kan, launched close to a year ago to connect people looking for part-time work to people needing service for things like dry cleaning pick-up or Ikea furniture assembly. The company also recently launched a service ... Read more »
