Justin Kan

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

[Justin Kan @justinkan]

It’s only January and it’s already obvious DTC is going to be huge for game developers in 2024.

Excited to introduce Stash. We’re building your next direct-to-player platform so you can finally own the relationships with your users.

Check us out: https://t.co/HKg4mBF6ec

[Justin Kan @justinkan]

In this podcast with @ashleevance, @maxhodak_ goes through the Science master plan...

https://t.co/iv0M6B6USA

[Justin Kan @justinkan]

This was an unhinged conversation in the best of ways.

[D. Scott Phoenix @fuelfive]

Are we the woolly mammoths?

Progress ep06 is live with @justinkan, co-founder of Twitch.

Mammoths built the grassland they lived on, then changed it too fast to survive. Justin thinks we might be next. We talk AI job loss, his bet on a Mamdani-style president in 2028, and what selling Twitch for $970M didn't fix.

[Justin Kan @justinkan]

I had a great time chatting with Derek about happiness and why extrinsic success will never make you happy over the long term. Of course, most people have to figure that out themselves, like I did :)

[Derek Andersen @DerekjAndersen]

This week on @Divotdotorg I speak with one of Silicon Valley's most thoughtful people @justinkan. We talked about why money and fame don't create happiness, why Justin isn't chasing the AI gold rush, and the habits that rewired his brain.

01:40 — Justin Kan’s Tattoo About Gratitude
02:46 — Why Success Still Creates Comparison
03:36 — Why Money and Fame Don’t Create Happiness
06:55 — Why Achievement Only Feels Good for a Moment
10:51 — The Habit That Rewired Justin’s Brain
16:39 — AI, Mental Health, and Social Media
18:10 — Why Justin Isn’t Chasing the AI Gold Rush
21:49 — The Founder Trait Justin Looks For Most
23:19 — Why Justin Invested $8 Million After a Cold Plunge
26:20 — Why You Shouldn’t Chase the AI Crowd
26:44 — The Next Big Frontier After AI

[Justin Kan @justinkan]

Finally got agent pilled and set up Hermes agent on Opus, https://t.co/ZIPvi75I7T for search, connected to whatsapp, told it to install Gstack on itself. Feels like I'm playing Productivity(TM): The Video Game. I'm addicted.

[Palmer Luckey @PalmerLuckey]

@AOC The idea that all billionaires got their money by exploiting peopl doesn't hold up to any scrutiny.

JK Rowling wrote books about cheeky wizards. I invented a better way to make virtual reality headsets and games to play on them. We just made things people wanted.

[Ramez Naam @ramez]

Everyone who cares about climate should understand this. Texas, with no pro-climate policies, has blown passed California in clean energy. In large part because Texas has less red tape and makes it easier to build.

[Justin Kan @justinkan]

Two of my favorite people in conversation...

[D. Scott Phoenix @fuelfive]

Will Reddit be the last human stronghold?

Progress ep03 is live with Steve Huffman, founder and CEO of @Reddit

We discuss why the future looks a lot like the past, why death might actually be good design, and why scientists may one day have to apologize to the hippies.

Timestamps
00:00 Introduction
01:30 Steve's weirdest idea: we should all die and be forgotten
04:37 Scientists owe the hippies an apology
05:35 Einstein sounds like a Buddhist monk
08:04 Reddit as an empathy machine
09:23 What Facebook got right, then abandoned
10:30 Cities are the only organism that scales superlinearly
12:25 Diagnosing inefficient institutions
13:35 Institutions need to die too
17:07 The policy mistake behind housing, college debt, and healthcare
18:21 America's doctor cap vs. Asia's approach
20:43 Fatherhood and the long view
22:12 Will Steve's kids have jobs?
23:38 Steve's case for Universal Basic Income
27:23 Saying please and thank you to ChatGPT
29:00 Vibe-coding a home automation bridge in two days
30:22 Scott's guilt about jailbreaking Claude

[Keller Cliffton @Keller]

New kind of mailbox is rapidly rolling out for businesses. Enables teleportation-like delivery to any home. Drone delivery is now universal 🌎

[Justin Kan @justinkan]

Editframe is how agents are going to create and edit video for you. Agents will allow ten times as many people to create, and video is the largest creative market…

[Jeremy Yudkin @yudDIDit]

Today, @editframe emerges from stealth. Agents need video.

Editframe Agent Skills:

npm create @editframe@latest

Just prompt Claude Code, Cursor, or Codex and get a working video or a full interactive GUI.

This video was created just by prompting 👇

[Rye @rye]

Merchant fraud systems can't tell the difference between a scalper bot and a customer's AI agent. The agents that make it through are the ones carrying verified credentials.

We're partnering with @trySkyfire. Their Know Your Agent (KYA) protocol is now the identity layer underneath Rye's Universal Checkout API. One SDK. Verified identity at the merchant edge. Both layers in production today.
https://t.co/ag08X2Euzk

[Justin Kan @justinkan]

Mike has lead connection exercises I’ve been a part of and it’s pure magic. Can’t wait for his cookbook.

[Mike Wang @zmwang]

I'm writing a cookbook for connection and launching the first recipes → https://t.co/iW2nFzoi6q

For 15+ years I've been the friend people texted at 11 pm before a big life thing.

"I'm walking into my first board meeting tomorrow, how do we build trust in the first 10 minutes?"
"I'm designing my 35th, help me make it more than a bar night."
"I'm going on a trip with my parents, how do we actually connect?"
"We're designing our intercultural wedding, how do we make it magical and not formulaic?"

🍽️ They each wanted a "recipe" for how to design an experience. I'm sharing some of the meaningful ones that helped them (ingredients, steps, and a little science explaining why it works).

👨‍👩‍👧 What I learned is that people wanted to connect with the most important people in their lives, but were stuck. Holidays with parents, date night with their partner, a cousin's trip, a team offsite, a birthday, a baby shower. We default to the same script and wonder why the night felt okay but not great. It's usually not a lack of love in the room. It is a lack of inspiration about how.

🍚 In the same way you pull up a food recipe when you want to cook something great for someone, I believe we need inspiration from recipes for the experiences we host. Magical recipes to teach people how to host, facilitate, and create the "vibes".

I will share a new recipe every Monday (https://t.co/iW2nFzoi6q).

Comment 👇: What recipes would you want to read? Who do you want to deepen connection with in your life?

[Michelle Lee @michellearning]

Welcome to the scientific revolution. 100s of robots. Zero coffee breaks. America’s largest autonomous lab, open today.

[Rye @rye]

Agentic commerce is here.

[Rye @rye]

Your agent can buy things now — Amazon & Shopify.

[Justin Kan @justinkan]

Had so much fun reminiscing about the old days of YC with @jesslivingston and Carolynn Levy!

[Jessica Livingston @jesslivingston]

In the latest Social Radars we talk to Justin Kan, who has spent his whole adult life around startups. He's seen it all, and because he's so candid, he tells it all too. We had fun talking to him, so this interview should be fun to listen to.

https://t.co/AoiyVqdPM3

[Justin Kan @justinkan]

Dems just love losing so badly...

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: The DNC has banned staffers from using ChatGPT & Claude.

[Upeka Bee @upekabee]

Every OpenClaw today is an intern with root access & no oversight ☠️🏴‍☠️

So we built the first one with a boss 🦞

@getdiana is a business-ready OpenClaw with a Governor that shuts it down mid-task before damage is done 🧵

→First 500 to RT + comment “DianaClaw” get 1 month free

[Mayor Matt Mahan @MattMahanSJ]

Californians deserve better.

Better than a billionaire who profited from ICE detention centers and a Trump-backed MAGA Republican.

I’m offering a better path forward.

[Justin Kan @justinkan]

We're now closing the loop so AI will be able to make scientific discoveries

[Michelle Lee @michellearning]

The next industrial revolution isn’t software. It’s science.

[Science Corporation @ScienceCorp_]

.@arenamagdotcom profiles Science CEO @maxhodak_ and details the breakthrough of the PRIMA retinal implant for AMD, the groundbreaking work on Biohybrid, and the new possibilities brain-computer interfaces offer patients.

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