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Justin Time

163 points by melvinmt 11y ago

m0th87 11y ago
I was a $BIGCO intern in 2011. I only hung out with Justin briefly at that time, but he more than anyone else got me into the startup scene. He came off to me as both rawly honest and friendly - attributes that are usually mutually exclusive. He'll make an awesome spokesman.
ladon86 11y ago
> Follow him on Snapchat What's his username?
- melvinmt 11y ago
  justinkan
- CarolineW 11y ago
  <excised> Edit: It's being suggested that the original article as posted didn't have the username, and it was added afterwards. So I've removed my snarky comment. Apologies.
  - nilkn 11y ago
    Surely it's possible that the post was edited to include the username, considering this isn't the only comment here asking about it.
    - deleted 11y ago
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    - ladon86 11y ago
      That was indeed the case.
      - dave2000 11y ago
        Well thank god that's sorted. The exact order of events regarding articles, comments and updates is of desperate importance.
  - napoleond 11y ago
    Or you could be mildly charitable here and assume that the username was added afterwards, as an edit to the original post.
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aleyan 11y ago
Congratulations to Justin Kan. It is interesting that Snapchat is developing in a direction where people are promoting it for use in communicating with them in a business context. When calling people to follow someone on Snapchat you should include their username or QR code though.
- geofft 11y ago
  I think Justin Kan is a bit of a special case here: http://justinkan.com/why-i-love-snapchat http://justinkan.com/why-i-love-snapchat
jypepin 11y ago
The only reason I open snapchat daily is to watch Justin's stories. Nothing else. He's entertaining and has a good mix of fun stuff, great life advices and answers interesting startup questions.
SoonDead 11y ago
Totally inappropriate, but the internet already ruined this phrase. Some time ago the phrase "Justin Time" was used on various imageboards to derail threads. It was accompanied by pictures from an incestual homoerotic comic, called "My Wild and Raunchy Son" where Justin was the son of the main protagonist. Some of the pictures are so scenic and/or vulgar that it was never ignored: unprepared visitors were grossed out, voicing their discontent loudly, and hilarity ensured. I was cautious to open this thread, but after finding something innocent realized that I actually miss the good old days of said imageboards.
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jedberg 11y ago
Hah! Just yesterday I was talking to someone about what an amazing stage presence Justin has. Couldn't have picked a better person.
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OoTheNigerian 11y ago
Seconded. I've interacted personally with him (he may not remember) and I would say he is quite thoughtful and effortlessly able to empathize and interact excellently. My buddy in this YC batch has nothing but good words to say. The YC network is a defensible asset I believe PG never saw coming. Congratulations Justin!
- curo 11y ago
  Yea Justin's great. He sent my YC rejection and made it feel like landing on soft pillows. Then handled my objections with warmth.
paul 11y ago
Justin doesn't just work with the media. Justin IS the media. I think it's worth pointing out that Justin.tv led to the two largest YC exits to date, Twitch (Justin.tv pivot), and Cruise (founded by Justin.tv cofounder Kyle Vogt and Justin's brother Dan). In 2008, Justin.tv co-founder Michael Seibel found Brian Chesky crashed on the floor of a hotel in Austin, offered him space in his room, began coaching him on how to build a startup, introduced him to the rest of the Justin.tv team, and ultimately brought them into YC! (and look where he is now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hP6TH3pBPi8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hP6TH3pBPi8) I look forward to more of the same :)
- 55555 11y ago
  Another cruise co-founder was Justin's younger brother.
  - paul 11y ago
    Yes! Fixed.
- opendomain 11y ago
  Did Justin.TV succeed for the original investors? I know that Twitch was sold, but I heard that it was completely separate from Justin.TV
  - paul 11y ago
    Yes. I was one of the first Justin.tv investors. I think my final return was about 97x, so that's pretty good. From my perspective at least, Twitch was essentially a re-branding. Basically, they saw that gaming content was popular on Justin.tv, so Emmett decided to move that on to a dedicated site. Ultimately Twitch far eclipsed the justin.tv site, so they shut that down to focus entirely on the Twitch side.
    - seizethecheese 11y ago
      Based on the Startup School podcast episode I heard with Emmett, it sounded like it was less that gaming was popular (I think he said it was 2% of traffic) and more that it was the only content that Emmett actually liked watching. (Not trying to disagree with you, given that you were there, more trying to give another perspective.)
mkoble11 11y ago
have been following him on snapchat - this makes total sense. another great move, guys.
sahara 11y ago
Congratulations to Justin, and to Sam/YC for making a great choice. On a tangential but related note, does anyone recommend any good follows on Snapchat, particularly anyone discussing tech/entrepreneurship? (There are obviously tons of entertaining celebrities, athletes, musicians, etc, but that's not really relevant here.) Mark Suster (msuster on snap) of Upfront Ventures/bothsidesofthetable is good for at least a few 'snapstorms' a week covering a wide variety of VC topics. I've also really been enjoying the stories from Bobby Kim (bobbyhundreds), co-founder of seminal LA streetwear label The Hundreds, which tend to be a mix of standard day-in-the-life Snapchat fare as well as more introspective reflections on life and business. Bobby's a smart guy with diverse interests, even if you don't care about skateboarding or which overpriced, limited-edition collaboration is responsible for today's line out the door somewhere on Fairfax, it's still worth checking out Bobby's snaps.
- jrsmith1279 11y ago
  garyvee
- mooreds 11y ago
  I like following msuster, but every time he does a snapstorm I'm like "Dang! I wish I could share this." He keeps promising that he's saving them and will release them, and I can barely wait. Don't have any other good suggestions, unfortunately, thanks for the suggestions of bobbyhundreds.
  - bananaboy 11y ago
    I thought I saw that he had posted them somewhere but I just went looking and couldn't find anything. Hopefully he publishes them because I keep missing them!
devy 11y ago
Congrats to Justin! Here is a clip he talked about himself his startup experience. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGvS3NvuLWU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGvS3NvuLWU
johnlbevan2 11y ago
I heard Justin Time was lazy... though is always there when needed.
iLoch 11y ago
I've been following Justin for a while on Snapchat. He's always doing something interesting and offering helpful advice, as well as just providing some insight into the culture of YC. I think he's a great choice for managing PR at YC, seeing as he's already been doing that unofficially for a while now.
p4wnc6 11y ago
This must clearly have come on the heels of YC being turned down by Brandon Content.
jamesblonde 11y ago
Is nobody else surprised that a techie (Sam Altman) can use the term PR without qualifying that he doesn't mean github. In Swedish it's called 'yrkesskadad' - occupational damage.

163 points by melvinmt 11y ago

I was a $BIGCO intern in 2011. I only hung out with Justin briefly at that time, but he more than anyone else got me into the startup scene. He came off to me as both rawly honest and friendly - attributes that are usually mutually exclusive. He'll make an awesome spokesman.

ladon86 11y ago

> Follow him on Snapchat What's his username?

melvinmt 11y ago
justinkan
CarolineW 11y ago
<excised> Edit: It's being suggested that the original article as posted didn't have the username, and it was added afterwards. So I've removed my snarky comment. Apologies.
- nilkn 11y ago
  Surely it's possible that the post was edited to include the username, considering this isn't the only comment here asking about it.
  - deleted 11y ago
    [deleted]
  - ladon86 11y ago
    That was indeed the case.
    - dave2000 11y ago
      Well thank god that's sorted. The exact order of events regarding articles, comments and updates is of desperate importance.
- napoleond 11y ago
  Or you could be mildly charitable here and assume that the username was added afterwards, as an edit to the original post.
  - deleted 11y ago
    [deleted]
- deleted 11y ago
  [deleted]

aleyan 11y ago

Congratulations to Justin Kan. It is interesting that Snapchat is developing in a direction where people are promoting it for use in communicating with them in a business context. When calling people to follow someone on Snapchat you should include their username or QR code though.

geofft 11y ago
I think Justin Kan is a bit of a special case here: http://justinkan.com/why-i-love-snapchat http://justinkan.com/why-i-love-snapchat

jypepin 11y ago

The only reason I open snapchat daily is to watch Justin's stories. Nothing else. He's entertaining and has a good mix of fun stuff, great life advices and answers interesting startup questions.

SoonDead 11y ago

Totally inappropriate, but the internet already ruined this phrase. Some time ago the phrase "Justin Time" was used on various imageboards to derail threads. It was accompanied by pictures from an incestual homoerotic comic, called "My Wild and Raunchy Son" where Justin was the son of the main protagonist. Some of the pictures are so scenic and/or vulgar that it was never ignored: unprepared visitors were grossed out, voicing their discontent loudly, and hilarity ensured. I was cautious to open this thread, but after finding something innocent realized that I actually miss the good old days of said imageboards.

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jedberg 11y ago

Hah! Just yesterday I was talking to someone about what an amazing stage presence Justin has. Couldn't have picked a better person.

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OoTheNigerian 11y ago

Seconded. I've interacted personally with him (he may not remember) and I would say he is quite thoughtful and effortlessly able to empathize and interact excellently. My buddy in this YC batch has nothing but good words to say. The YC network is a defensible asset I believe PG never saw coming. Congratulations Justin!

curo 11y ago
Yea Justin's great. He sent my YC rejection and made it feel like landing on soft pillows. Then handled my objections with warmth.

paul 11y ago

Justin doesn't just work with the media. Justin IS the media. I think it's worth pointing out that Justin.tv led to the two largest YC exits to date, Twitch (Justin.tv pivot), and Cruise (founded by Justin.tv cofounder Kyle Vogt and Justin's brother Dan). In 2008, Justin.tv co-founder Michael Seibel found Brian Chesky crashed on the floor of a hotel in Austin, offered him space in his room, began coaching him on how to build a startup, introduced him to the rest of the Justin.tv team, and ultimately brought them into YC! (and look where he is now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hP6TH3pBPi8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hP6TH3pBPi8) I look forward to more of the same :)

55555 11y ago
Another cruise co-founder was Justin's younger brother.
- paul 11y ago
  Yes! Fixed.
opendomain 11y ago
Did Justin.TV succeed for the original investors? I know that Twitch was sold, but I heard that it was completely separate from Justin.TV
- paul 11y ago
  Yes. I was one of the first Justin.tv investors. I think my final return was about 97x, so that's pretty good. From my perspective at least, Twitch was essentially a re-branding. Basically, they saw that gaming content was popular on Justin.tv, so Emmett decided to move that on to a dedicated site. Ultimately Twitch far eclipsed the justin.tv site, so they shut that down to focus entirely on the Twitch side.
  - seizethecheese 11y ago
    Based on the Startup School podcast episode I heard with Emmett, it sounded like it was less that gaming was popular (I think he said it was 2% of traffic) and more that it was the only content that Emmett actually liked watching. (Not trying to disagree with you, given that you were there, more trying to give another perspective.)

mkoble11 11y ago

have been following him on snapchat - this makes total sense. another great move, guys.

sahara 11y ago

Congratulations to Justin, and to Sam/YC for making a great choice. On a tangential but related note, does anyone recommend any good follows on Snapchat, particularly anyone discussing tech/entrepreneurship? (There are obviously tons of entertaining celebrities, athletes, musicians, etc, but that's not really relevant here.) Mark Suster (msuster on snap) of Upfront Ventures/bothsidesofthetable is good for at least a few 'snapstorms' a week covering a wide variety of VC topics. I've also really been enjoying the stories from Bobby Kim (bobbyhundreds), co-founder of seminal LA streetwear label The Hundreds, which tend to be a mix of standard day-in-the-life Snapchat fare as well as more introspective reflections on life and business. Bobby's a smart guy with diverse interests, even if you don't care about skateboarding or which overpriced, limited-edition collaboration is responsible for today's line out the door somewhere on Fairfax, it's still worth checking out Bobby's snaps.

jrsmith1279 11y ago
garyvee
mooreds 11y ago
I like following msuster, but every time he does a snapstorm I'm like "Dang! I wish I could share this." He keeps promising that he's saving them and will release them, and I can barely wait. Don't have any other good suggestions, unfortunately, thanks for the suggestions of bobbyhundreds.
- bananaboy 11y ago
  I thought I saw that he had posted them somewhere but I just went looking and couldn't find anything. Hopefully he publishes them because I keep missing them!

devy 11y ago

Congrats to Justin! Here is a clip he talked about himself his startup experience. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGvS3NvuLWU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGvS3NvuLWU

johnlbevan2 11y ago

I heard Justin Time was lazy... though is always there when needed.

iLoch 11y ago

I've been following Justin for a while on Snapchat. He's always doing something interesting and offering helpful advice, as well as just providing some insight into the culture of YC. I think he's a great choice for managing PR at YC, seeing as he's already been doing that unofficially for a while now.

p4wnc6 11y ago

This must clearly have come on the heels of YC being turned down by Brandon Content.

jamesblonde 11y ago

Is nobody else surprised that a techie (Sam Altman) can use the term PR without qualifying that he doesn't mean github. In Swedish it's called 'yrkesskadad' - occupational damage.