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From the bottom to the top & back again. Co-founded @twitch, now working on making videos, goat.vc stash.gg @rye

2k following303k followers

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Serial founder and creator who rose with Twitch, survived a high-profile failure, and now makes videos while building new products like Rye. Bold, candid, and unafraid to share both wins and flops with a large, engaged audience.

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Justin's the kind of guy who sells a company for a billion, loses $75 million on the next ride, then tweets a heartfelt thread and somehow gets standing ovations, it's like watching a startup soap opera where he both writes and stars in every dramatic episode.

Co-founding Twitch and exiting at a $1 billion valuation, creating a lasting platform that reshaped live-streaming and launched countless creator careers.

To build platforms and products that empower creators and communities, while normalizing honest conversations about the messy reality of startups, turning lived lessons into better companies and better content.

Believes in transparency, rapid iteration, and data-driven hustle; trusts that authentic storytelling about both success and failure builds deeper relationships with users; values community, creative freedom, and calling out systems that feel rigged.

Resilient builder who combines product instincts with storyteller energy; highly credible due to real exits and public vulnerability; great at converting lessons into compelling threads and video content.

Can be polarizing and emotionally raw, risking overshare or inconsistent focus across projects; high-risk moves can lead to big public losses that critics latch onto.

Double down on short native video clips (30, 90s) that tease longer content on YouTube; turn candid post-mortems into compact, lesson-driven threads with a clear takeaway and CTA; host a recurring weekly Space or AMA to deepen community ties; pin a flagship "failure + lesson" thread to showcase credibility; repurpose livestream highlights into snackable X posts, collaborate with creators in adjacent niches (crypto, gaming, startups), and use analytics to post when your audience is most active. Keep the honesty, it's your edge, while maintaining a consistent cadence and a clear product/community CTA (newsletter, Rye, or behind-the-scenes).

Fun fact: he co-founded Twitch and sold it for $1 billion, then publicly detailed how his next company, Atrium, lost $75 million in 36 months, he tweets prolifically (14,332 tweets) to an audience of ~303k followers and now focuses on video and Rye.

Top tweets of Justin Kan

My first company @twitch sold for a billion dollars. My second one lost $75 million in 36 months. People love talking about success, but today I'm going to talk about failure. It's time to be honest about Atrium:

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yeah i built @twitch it has millions of users. & gaming NFTs are way bigger.

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Most engaged tweets of Justin Kan

yeah i built @twitch it has millions of users. & gaming NFTs are way bigger.

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My first company @twitch sold for a billion dollars. My second one lost $75 million in 36 months. People love talking about success, but today I'm going to talk about failure. It's time to be honest about Atrium:

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