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Erika Taught Me

Twitch Co-Founder: From 0 to Selling for $970 Million

Erika Taught Me

Erika Kullberg

Business, Entrepreneurship

4.82.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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#37: Justin Kan, the co-founder of Twitch, shares with us the journey to building Twitch and how they were able to sell it for almost $1 billion. Justin shares with us his biggest achievements and worst mistakes when building Twitch and what he wishes he had done differently. He also gives his best advice to any entrepreneur looking to build the next big thing. To apply for the Senior Podcast Producer position at Erika Taught Me: https://erikakullberg.com/producer-application Special thanks to our partners: Webull (free stocks) - erikataughtme.com/invest Aura - erikataughtme.com/aura Bilt Rewards - erikataughtme.com/bilt Thanks for tuning in and come back every Tuesday for a brand-new episode! Make sure you hit the follow button to get notified. Prefer video or want closed captions?⁠ Watch this episode on YouTube. Did you enjoy the episode?⁠⁠ Please leave us a review here⁠⁠: https://erikakullberg.com/review (just scroll to the bottom and tap on “leave a review”) It really helps the podcast especially since we’re just getting started. Even just a sentence is perfect! Follow the podcast @erikataughtme across platforms. ⁠Connect with me on Instagram.⁠ For more information, go to⁠ https://www.erikataughtme.com/⁠. Get on my personal finance & investing course priority waitlist here. https://erikakullberg.com/3DMoney Get my Mastering YouTube course, to learn how to grow a YouTube following and monetize it. https://erikakullberg.com/MasteringYT ⁠Get more of my free resources.⁠

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0:00.0

I like learning new things and for me, work doesn't feel like work because it's

0:04.5

I'm doing the things I like and it's my vehicle for learning. I think that's how

0:08.1

you stay young and your brain stays plastic.

0:09.9

What's it going? I'm Justin Conn from Justin.tv.

0:13.0

Justin Conn, an entrepreneur and investor.

0:15.7

Most of you probably know him for building Twitch and selling it of course to Amazon for a billion

0:19.9

dollars. What's your best advice for entrepreneurs?

0:22.7

My best advice for people who want to be entrepreneurs is like you just got to get

0:27.1

I'm Erica Colberg and you're listening to the Erica Top Me podcast.

0:33.7

You guys know that I love investing because you know that if your money is just sitting in a

0:38.5

bank account, you're losing out to inflation every single year. That's why you invest it so that

0:45.0

it grows for you without you having to put in any extra work. I've been using an investing app

0:51.1

called Weeble for almost four years and I had them do something really special for my listeners.

0:56.9

By using my link to sign up today, you can get between six to 12 fractional shares for free.

1:03.8

All you need to do is open an account and deposit any amount, even a dollar to claim your free

1:10.0

shares. So just by depositing a dollar, you'll get between six to 12 free fractional shares.

1:16.5

And if you're wondering what to actually invest in, we talk all about investing in episode 28.

1:22.0

So go ahead and listen to that episode. To claim your free shares through my special link,

1:27.4

just go to ericototme.com slash invest or click the link in the show notes and it's Erica with a K.

1:34.5

Again, that's ericototme.com slash invest.

1:39.2

So talk us through the concept of Justin.tv. How did that even get started? How did you think that

1:44.1

that could be a good idea? I don't know that most people thought there would be a need for it because

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