He sold his company to Amazon for $970,000,000 ft Justin Kan

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Colin and Samir

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4.9 • 665 Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2021

⏱️ 63 minutes

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We interview Twitch Co-founder, Justin Kan about his story, selling his company to Amazon and why he's starting a YouTube Channel. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	He lives his life with a camera clipped to his head.
0:03.0	Justin Kahn of Justin TV.
0:04.9	I'm broadcasting my life 24-7 to the internet from this camera all day every day.
0:09.3	You can see Justin's point of view.
0:10.8	Can you see it right now, baby?
0:12.3	I guess this is my last video on Justin TV.
0:14.9	Have you heard of Twitch?
0:16.1	Twitch was basically the same infrastructure.
0:17.8	It was almost like a re-skinned Justin TV at first. Twitch TV has been purchased, but no, not by Google, by Amazon.
0:25.8	The internet giant is buying Twitch for almost a billion dollars in cash, one of Amazon's
0:30.5	biggest acquisitions ever.
0:33.9	Hello, podcast listeners.
0:35.7	Happy Monday.
0:36.3	Welcome to another episode of the Colin and Samir show. Today,
0:38.9	we're joined by Justin Khan. Justin Khan has a crazy story. I don't even know where to start with this one.
0:45.9	Yeah, I mean, the amount of things you could dig into with Justin Khan, whether it's attaching a camera to his head and live streaming his life for 24 hours, selling a company for almost a billion dollars.
0:55.6	Yeah.
0:55.9	Or starting a YouTube channel now.
0:58.2	Yeah. I mean, he's lived a lot of lives and he tells a lot of really interesting stories on this show.
1:04.4	And it was amazing to just sit with him and talk to him.
1:07.1	Because one thing is someone like him, an entrepreneur of that level who creates a company
1:12.6	like Twitch and sells it to Amazon, you don't really understand what that looks like.
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