Justin.tv
also referred to as: justin tv · justintv
20 statements across 11 episodes · 7 bullish · 2 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Mar 7, 2018 by Michael Seibel · said 54 times in 22 episodes since 2016 · across every show →
Mentions by year
brought up most by Michael Seibel (26), Paul Buchheit (11), Tikhon Bernstam (3), Geoff Ralston (3), Dalton Caldwell (3), Ammon Bartram (2), Shola Akinlade (1), Jessica Livingston (1)
tap a year for its mentions
2023 7 mentions in 4 episodes 2 per episode
2022 8 mentions in 8 episodes 1 per episode
- Don't Make These Hiring Mistakes · Y Combinator
- Save Your Startup During an Economic Downturn · Y Combinator
- How To Compete With Amazon and Google · Y Combinator
- Why Investors Can’t Fix Your Company – Dalton Caldwell and Michael Seibel · Y Combinator
- Things That Don't Scale, The Software Edition – Dalton Caldwell and Michael Seibel · Y Combinator
- How To Change The World? Get The Small Things Right – Dalton Caldwell and Michael Seibel · Y Combinator
- Where Do Great Startup Ideas Come From? – Dalton Caldwell and Michael Seibel · Y Combinator
- Should You Follow Your Passion? – Dalton Caldwell and Michael Seibel · Y Combinator
- every mention in 2022, scene by scene →
2020 1 mention in 1 episode
2018 31 mentions in 5 episodes 6 per episode
- Michael Seibel - Building Product · Y Combinator
- Paul Buchheit - Startup Investor School Day 2 · Y Combinator
- Michael Seibel - Startup Investor School Day 2 · Y Combinator
- The Path to $100B by Paul Buchheit · Y Combinator
- Helping African Businesses Get Paid, Shola Akinlade of Paystack · Y Combinator
- every mention in 2018, scene by scene →
2017 6 mentions in 3 episodes 2 per episode
2016 1 mention in 1 episode
Everything said about Justin.tv, oldest first
Mar 7, 2018 positive
Mar 7, 2018 positive
Buchheit: Kyle Vogt built Justin.tv's streaming server in a single weekend
“It turns out it took him maybe like a whole weekend, but he did in fact write their own streaming media server, and this is actually the reason that Justin TV survived it all. Right? Because they, there was no way the business was viable if they were paying so…”
Mar 7, 2018
Buchheit: Acquirers rejected Justin.tv because they believed the team lacked talent
“So this company, they actually even tried to do an acquihire several years in, but no one would acquihire them because they thought they didn't have any talent. They couldn't do a talent acquisition because the acquirers thought there was no talent.”
Sep 5, 2018 neutral
Sep 5, 2018 positive
Seibel: Justin.tv reached $24M in five years, then $1B in three
“And if you look at the history of Justin TV, in the first five years, it went from being worth nothing to being worth about twenty four million dollars. In the next three years, it went being worth twenty four million dollars to being worth a billion.”
Sep 5, 2018 neutral
Sep 5, 2018 neutral
Sep 5, 2018 negative
Seibel: Justin.tv's biggest product mistake was spending months swinging for home runs
“Our mistake was that at JustinTV. It was thinking every time, we've got the home run. Let's only swing for home runs. And of course, it would take three months to do it, because we gotta make it perfect, right? And then the whole spike, spiral of death.”
Sep 5, 2018
Jan 5, 2022 neutral
Seibel: Justin.tv reached 30 million monthly visitors while struggling financially
“Even though the company wasn't doing well for years, we always had a lot of traffic, you know, like the company wasn't doing well and we had like thirty million monthly visitors, like, and we were streaming like years of video to them.”
Jan 19, 2022 negative
Feb 16, 2022
Seibel: Justin.tv secretly delayed celebrity streams to scale video servers
“So what happened now in this setup is that some celebrity would start streaming, they would think they were live, no one was seeing their stream, while we were propagating their stream to all the video servers that are needed, and then suddenly the stream woul…”
Feb 16, 2022
Seibel: Justin.tv used a manual button to turn overloaded pages static
“So we actually had a button that could make any page on Justin TV a static page. All those features would stop working. Your name wouldn't appear, the view count wouldn't update, like, literally a static page that loaded our video player, and You couldn't touc…”
Feb 23, 2022 positive
Mar 31, 2022
Seibel: Programmers avoided starting code before lunch due to midday interruption
“Nothing got done before lunch. Like, getting to work was all about, like, getting in, answering your email, doing a couple meetings, like, it was just, like, no one who was writing code even wanted to start writing code before lunch, because lunch was the big,…”
Apr 8, 2022 positive
Justin.tv Succeeded When Founders Stopped Copying Competitors, Says Seibel
“The company only started working when Emmett and Kevin started actually talking to the users and figuring out what they wanted. Instead of, you know, the years where all of us just looked at each other, all the competitors just looked at each other, copying ea…”
May 6, 2022 positive
May 6, 2022
May 6, 2022
Seibel: Justin.tv faced imminent death with $500K cash and $250K burn
“We had raised about seven or eight million dollars. We had grown to about, I don't know, let's say like thirty million monthly people were watching content. We were making about 750,000 dollars a month in revenue, but we were, we had a million dollars a month …”