Quotes from Justin Kan

There's something very satisfying about making anything with your hands.

I grew up in Seattle.

There was no real plan B. It was like, I'm gonna move back to Seattle and move in with my parents.

Our goal has always been to make broadcasters on TwitchTV feel like they own their channel pages, and we're continuing to make incremental improvements there.

Imagine what you could do if you had the ability to broadcast live video from anywhere, anytime. It changes the way news is gathered.

Extrinsic motivations are like, 'I wanna get rich, I wanna be famous.'... Even missionary ones like, 'I wanna change the world with this idea.'... That's an extrinsic motivation. And when things are hard, you're going to be like, oh why am I doing this?

I first started in tech when one of my friends and I decided it was a good opportunity to start a company while we were in school because we had almost no opportunity cost. Our opportunity cost was playing 'World of Warcraft' and drinking beer. We thought it was a good time to try something.

I think it's very cathartic to have someone to talk to.

Eventually my ego is going to be the size of the planet Earth.

Alcohol was this crutch for me, to be able to be confident or go do those things I was scared to do. Eventually, I was like 'Oh, this isn't serving me anymore.'

I'm very passionate about mental health and wellness as part of the journey.

I deleted all the apps. You can actually turn off the App Store. And I gave the passcode to my wife so I didn't have the passcode to reinstall the App Store. And I deleted all social media apps and e-commerce apps.

With Whale, I'm like the first user. My feedback is around my experience as a content creator.

If you think about corporate legal work that's done today, some part of it is art and then some of it is repeatable processes.

I don't feel productive if I'm not working a lot.

I usually float between the tech and the business sides of the office.

A lot of tech people are afraid to get on the phone and talk to their customers, or get on Zoom, or whatever. But I think a great place to start is just be calling your customers all the time.

The Internet is a place that fosters creativity.

Even though I had accomplished something astronomical, I looked to my friends who had founded Dropbox and Airbnb, and thought, 'I could've done better.'

As a founder, you are a very active component of your company.

Smart founders are going anywhere to find talent.

We do think founders should be treated like athletes, going for gold really hard.

The original concept for JTV was that we would give people a window into other people's lives. The problem is that if that window is 24/7, when you look in at any random moment, odds are you are going to be bored.

For gamers, I think it's very easy for people to produce content that's pretty engaging.