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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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1 assertion · 1 insight · 4 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertion are the 1 claim: statements the public record can support or contradict. 1 is resolved. 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.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Kan on shutting down Atrium: laying off 180, losing tens of millions
“By doing that, I was able to pay off a 180 people and tell a bunch of people I'd lost millions of dollars, tens of millions of dollars, and be okay, and know like, oh, this is gonna pass, and I'm okay with it, and I mean, it sucks right now, it's, this experie…”
Justin Kan Feb 15, 2022 ▶ 25:56 Bonus: "How Twitch Co-founder Justin Kan Got Sober" from Imposters

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Everything Justin Kan said on Founder's Journal that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Disclosure
Kan refuses to build startups through constant stress and fear
“Maybe I don't think it's the case, but it could be the case of like being super wound up about like your company is what's going to work best, but I'm not going to live that way. So we're going to run the experiment and see if this works.”
Justin Kan Feb 15, 2022 ▶ 21:18 Bonus: "How Twitch Co-founder Justin Kan Got Sober" from Imposters
Assertion Supported
Kan on shutting down Atrium: laying off 180, losing tens of millions
“By doing that, I was able to pay off a 180 people and tell a bunch of people I'd lost millions of dollars, tens of millions of dollars, and be okay, and know like, oh, this is gonna pass, and I'm okay with it, and I mean, it sucks right now, it's, this experie…”
Justin Kan Feb 15, 2022 ▶ 25:56 Bonus: "How Twitch Co-founder Justin Kan Got Sober" from Imposters
Insight
Kan: Committing to permanent sobriety is easier than temporary breaks
“But the part of it, I think more of it was just like knowing that there was no, like, Something to wait for at the end of the tunnel. Like it was just like, oh, this is the way it is the new normal for the rest of my life. That was my commitment made it way ea…”
Justin Kan Feb 15, 2022 ▶ 13:14 Bonus: "How Twitch Co-founder Justin Kan Got Sober" from Imposters
Disclosure
Kan: Startup failures and setbacks turned drinking into an escape mechanism
“Started my first startup and I continued like drinking and it became, you know, it was also like a crutch. Like it wasn't just Okay. I'm going to like go party. It was like, I feel upset about something, right? Like there's something that's not going my way in…”
Justin Kan Feb 15, 2022 ▶ 5:09 Bonus: "How Twitch Co-founder Justin Kan Got Sober" from Imposters
Disclosure
Kan: Startup 'work hard, play hard' culture normalized heavy drinking
“When I was in Startups, you know, it's kind of like, oh, well, we're working hard. We're playing hard, right? Like, so we're like working all these hours and we're like our whole life is lives are revolving around these companies. And so all our friends are he…”
Justin Kan Feb 15, 2022 ▶ 9:08 Bonus: "How Twitch Co-founder Justin Kan Got Sober" from Imposters
Disclosure
Kan: Startup investing is now driven by joy, not scarcity
“For me, kind of incubating companies, investing in companies, that's like a vehicle to do that, and if I just focus on the reason, you know, coming from a place of joy instead of coming from a place of scarcity, life's a lot better.”
Justin Kan Feb 15, 2022 ▶ 17:30 Bonus: "How Twitch Co-founder Justin Kan Got Sober" from Imposters

The other half of the tape: Justin Kan's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 4 times in 4 episodes on Founder's Journal. every mention, with the transcript →

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Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
Bonus: "How Twitch Co-founder Justin Kan Got Sober" from Imposters Feb 15, 2022 14m
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