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20251 event
  1. reported 2025-03Capability
    Early culture of aggressive, heated debate
    “Justin.tv was known for an early culture of extremely aggressive, heated debates.” 28:12
    Unverified1 source· Talk
20241 event
  1. as of May 2024Built
    Dalton, P. Michael built Justin.tv
    “we could build all of Justin.tv with free software” 1:20
    Unverified1 source· Talk
20238 events
November
  1. as of Nov 2023Capability
    Justin Kan streamed his life 24/7 wearing a camera on his side
    “he was wearing a camera on his side, streaming his life 24/7” 12:17
    Unverified1 source· Talk
  2. as of Nov 2023Founded
    Kyle founded Justin.tv
    “we got me, Emmett, and Kyle... to be his co-founders in a startup” 12:17
    Unverified1 source· Talk
  3. as of Nov 2023Founded
    Emmett founded Justin.tv
    “we got me, Emmett, and Kyle... to be his co-founders in a startup” 12:17
    Unverified1 source· Talk
  4. as of Nov 2023Founded
    Michael founded Justin.tv
    “we got me, Emmett, and Kyle... to be his co-founders in a startup” 12:17
    Unverified1 source· Talk
  5. Nov 30, 2023Founded
    Justin Kan founded Justin.tv
    “he was the founder of Justin.tv” 0:00
    Verified3 sources· Talk
  6. as of Nov 2023People
    Michael is nontechnical member of a four-person founding team at Justin.tv
    “I was the single nontechnical person on a four-person founding team at Justin.tv and Twitch.” 4:19
    Unverified1 source· Talk
April
  1. as of Apr 2023Capability
    Raised streaming bitrate after streamers asked for higher resolution.
    “can you let me stream in higher resolution?” 10:22
    Unverified1 source· Talk
  2. as of Apr 2023Built
    Justin.tv built video streaming
    “we built our own video system” 11:18
    Unverified1 source· Talk
20226 events
May
  1. as of May 2022People
    John is video infrastructure specialist at Justin.tv
    “we hired someone from YouTube” 12:47
    Unverified1 source· Talk
  2. as of May 2022People
    Kyle is co-founder and VP of Engineering at Justin.tv
    “Kyle, the co-founder and VP of Engineering” 13:15
    Unverified1 source· Talk
April
  1. reported 2022-04People
    Twitch previously at Justin.tv
    “back in the early days of Twitch, when we were just Justin.tv” 6:57
    Unverified1 source· Talk
February
  1. as of Feb 2022People
    Michael Seibel previously at Justin.tv
    “We'd just gotten Justin.tv profitable” 22:16
    Unverified1 source· Talk
  2. as of Feb 2022Built
    Justin.tv built live video
    “With Justin.tv, live video hadn't really been done on the internet before” 13:40
    Unverified1 source· Talk
January
  1. as of Jan 2022Capability
    users streamed live video online
    users streamed live video online
    “what kept us motivated with Justin.tv and Twitch was that users wanted to stream live video online” 11:49
    Unverified1 source· Talk
20192 events
  1. as of Apr 2019People
    Michael Seibel is co-founder at Justin.tv
    “They recruited me, and bam, I had two amazing co-founders” 4:32
    Unverified1 source· Talk
  2. as of Apr 2019Founded
    Emmett Shear founded Justin.tv
    “When they decided to start a company called Justin.tv” 4:32
    Unverified1 source· Talk
20187 events
November
  1. Nov 2, 2018People
    Kyle Vogt is VP of Engineering at Justin.tv
    “Kyle basically became our VP of Engineering” 8:20
    Verified2 sources· Talk
September
  1. reported 2018-09Built
    Justin.tv built Socialcam
    “My company was doing video sharing with friends” 23:08
    Unverified1 source· Talk
  2. reported 2018-09Built
    Justin.tv built Twitch
    “Justin.tv, which later became Twitch” 0:00
    Verified3 sources· Talk
  3. reported 2018-09Founded
    Michael Seibel founded Justin.tv
    co-founder
    “I was co-founder of a company called Justin.tv” 0:00
    Verified3 sources· Talk
March
  1. reported 2018-03Capability
    pivoted to focus on video game streaming
    pivoted to focus on video game streaming
    “they eventually pivoted to Twitch, focusing on just one part of their product” 12:28
    Unverified1 source· Talk
  2. reported 2018-03Funding
    Paul Buchheit invested in Justin.tv
    “The following year, I invested in this YC company called Justin.tv.” 11:45
    Unverified1 source· Talk
  1. 2018People
    Jim is co-founder at Justin.tv
    “Now he’s a co-founder at Triplebyte.” 5:16
    Unverified1 source· Talk
20141 event
  1. as of Jul 2014Launch
    Justin.tv (product)Justin.tv launched Twitch.tv
    changed its name to focus on competitive gaming
    “Eventually, they changed their name to Twitch.tv to focus exclusively on competitive gaming.” 10:26
    Unverified1 source· Talk
20092 events
  1. 2009People
    Ammon Bartram is employee at Justin.tv
    “I joined Justin.tv fresh out of school in 2009” 0:13
    Unverified1 source· Talk
  2. 2009People
    Ammon Bartram previously at Justin.tv
    “I joined Justin.tv fresh out of school in 2009” 0:13
    Unverified1 source· Talk
20081 event
  1. 2008People
    Michael Seibel CEO of Justin.tv
    CEO
    “Michael was CEO of Justin.tv at the time” 13:39
    Unverified1 source· Talk
20071 event
  1. 2007People
    Justin Kan works at Justin.tv
    “Who at the time was working at Justin.tv” 5:02
    Unverified1 source· Talk
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