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Justin Kan

General Partner, Goat Capital · 1 appearance on the record.

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Justin Kan is best known as the co-founder of Justin.tv and live-streaming platform Twitch, and formerly served as a partner at Y Combinator. He has since founded companies including Atrium and actively invests in early-stage startups through Goat Capital.

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2 assertions · 1 opinion · 8 insights · 4 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 2 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 1 is resolved, and 1 names no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Justin argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

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289 words/min while actually speaking · 31.5 um and uh per 1k words

No argument clarity score for Justin Kan: no usable question→answer exchanges on raw tape (a fair score needs 8+). We do not score a sample that small. Roundtable and news formats yield far fewer direct exchanges than interviews.

Measured by listening to the audio itself: 7,842 words across 1 episode of raw-level tape, transcribed verbatim with every um and uh kept, each one attributed only where the alignment onto our timed stream is unambiguous. These are measurements of speaking style. We do not rank them: across this corpus, fluency and argument quality are nearly uncorrelated (ρ≈0.2), and smooth talking does not signal clear thinking. How it's measured →

Everything Justin Kan said on the a16z Podcast that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Opinion
Justin Kan: Many Silicon Valley Startups Succeed Despite Management, Driven by PMF
“I think a lot of companies in Silicon Valley, Kind of succeed despite their management, actually, not because of it. And what I mean by that is, like, the idea was so good that a bunch of 25 year olds could run the company, right? That core product market fit …”
Justin Kan May 17, 2019 ▶ 35:42 10+1 Lessons from Serial Entrepreneur Justin Kan
Insight
Justin Kan: First-Time Founders Must Take Market Risk, Veterans Execution Risk
“When you have nothing going for you, except for you're like willing to put in hard amount, you know, like long hours and a lot of blood, sweat, and tears Then you should focus on things that are like, where there's a lot of market risk, because ideas where the…”
Justin Kan May 17, 2019 ▶ 9:20 10+1 Lessons from Serial Entrepreneur Justin Kan
Insight
Justin Kan: Repeat Founders Have No Advantage Finding Consumer Product-Market Fit
“Like, I don't have any advantage in finding product market fit with a consumer app more than the twenty-two-year-old Justin.”
Justin Kan May 17, 2019 ▶ 10:14 10+1 Lessons from Serial Entrepreneur Justin Kan
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Justin Kan: Emmett Shear Was the Only Founder Who Believed in Twitch
“When we pivoted Justin TV to Twitch, nobody believed that there would, and this was a market, right? No one believed, no investors, very few of our, even internal employees like believe, and even the founders were skeptical. You know, Emmett deserves the credi…”
Justin Kan May 17, 2019 ▶ 11:09 10+1 Lessons from Serial Entrepreneur Justin Kan
Disclosure
Justin Kan Was Too Rich to Waste Time With Slow Seed Rounds
“But for me personally, you know, where it's an execution risk business, I'm too rich to like, Fuck around with the like, you know, ok, I'm just going to do a seed round and like, and just like take a long time, right? Like for me, speed to market and execution…”
Justin Kan May 17, 2019 ▶ 14:23 10+1 Lessons from Serial Entrepreneur Justin Kan
Disclosure
Justin Kan: Atrium Raised Seed Funding From Over 90 Silicon Valley Investors
“And so we ended up going out and raising money for our seed round of, you know, over 90 different investors from all over Silicon Valley because I felt like it would be really good to have those investors on our side and recommending Atrium as a channel partne…”
Justin Kan May 17, 2019 ▶ 15:29 10+1 Lessons from Serial Entrepreneur Justin Kan
Insight
Justin Kan: Silicon Valley Success Creates Paradox of Choice for Founders
“So once you become, you know, successful in some way in Silicon Valley, whether that's, you know, you've been executive at a company that's, you know, rocket ship unicorn, or you've started a company, you know, the world opens up, right? People want you to be …”
Justin Kan May 17, 2019 ▶ 5:52 10+1 Lessons from Serial Entrepreneur Justin Kan
Insight
Justin Kan: Outlier Consumer Internet Ideas Require Founders With Nothing to Lose
“It takes a lot of people who have nothing to lose to discover those ideas.”
Justin Kan May 17, 2019 ▶ 13:19 10+1 Lessons from Serial Entrepreneur Justin Kan
Insight
Justin Kan: Startup Scaling Issues Always Center on Alignment and Executive Talent
“Obviously, the problems are always the same, actually. The problems are always, like, I don't have the right alignment among my team, and I don't have the right executive team. It's usually some variation of those things”
Justin Kan May 17, 2019 ▶ 29:02 10+1 Lessons from Serial Entrepreneur Justin Kan
Insight
Justin Kan: Unintentional Culture Becomes an Accidental Collection of Leader Quirks
“When you're not intentional about your culture or type of company you want to be, then you make your, the culture ends up being the accidental collection of good and bad choices and like personality quirks and good and bad behaviors.”
Justin Kan May 17, 2019 ▶ 34:49 10+1 Lessons from Serial Entrepreneur Justin Kan
Insight
Justin Kan: Startup Success or Failure Does Not Alter Baseline Happiness
“The way that you win that battle is right by really Internalizing and realizing that whatever happens, you're gonna be fine. And you're probably going to be the same. You're not going to be happier or less happy actually. And now most people do not actually su…”
Justin Kan May 17, 2019 ▶ 40:19 10+1 Lessons from Serial Entrepreneur Justin Kan
Insight
Justin Kan: The Best Entrepreneurs Stick With One Company for Decades
“The best entrepreneurs here The ones who have created lasting companies and lasting value, they stick with their thing for decades, you know, and that's what impresses me most now, and I wish that I had kind of realized that, you know, before.”
Justin Kan May 17, 2019 ▶ 48:01 10+1 Lessons from Serial Entrepreneur Justin Kan
Disclosure
Justin Kan: Kiko Co-Founders Paid Themselves $700 to $800 Every Other Month
“We started off, you know, really, like, paying ourselves I think with Kiko, seven, 800 dollars a month, but we only paid ourselves every other month”
Justin Kan May 17, 2019 ▶ 25:42 10+1 Lessons from Serial Entrepreneur Justin Kan
Disclosure
Justin Kan Deleted All Entertainment Apps, Including Twitch, to Cure Phone Addiction
“I deleted all the entertainment apps off my phone, including the browser, and I locked it so that I don't, can't install new apps because I was a total phone addict. That includes Twitch.”
Justin Kan May 17, 2019 ▶ 42:33 10+1 Lessons from Serial Entrepreneur Justin Kan
Assertion Partly supported
Kan's First Startup Kiko Launched One Month Before Google Calendar
“Our very first company was called Kiko. It was kind of like Google Calendar but it came out One month before Google Calendar came out”
Justin Kan May 17, 2019 ▶ 1:03 10+1 Lessons from Serial Entrepreneur Justin Kan

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10+1 Lessons from Serial Entrepreneur Justin Kan May 17, 2019 33m
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