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Justin Kan opens up (Part 1) – TechCrunch


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I am a chaplain trying to understand the tech world, and to me, that means I need to understand people like Justin Kan.Who, after all, most “represents tech?” There are the obvious answers: secular deities like Bill Gates, Elon Musk or the late Steve Jobs.
But you can’t understand what has come to be the power and mystique of tech without also understanding the minds of its enigmatic founders.
Justin Kan is a serial entrepreneur and founder who, whether you appreciate his public voice or not, certainly stands out as one of the most interesting examples of that classic Silicon Valley archetype: a tech entrepreneur ostensibly doing much more than just selling technology.
Kan famously started his business career not long after he graduated from Yale in 2005 by creating Justin.tv, a tech platform from which he broadcast his own life 24/7.
Fifteen years later, Kan’s original idea seems quaint, given the level of self-promotion and oversharing that’s become commonplace. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1580589013.1769361/Justin-Kan-opens-up-(Part-1)-–-TechCrunch?ref=audio_experience
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