Justin Time

https://blog.ycombinator.com/justin-time

by melvinmt • 10 years ago

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ladon862• 10 years ago

Follow him on Snapchat

What's his username?

melvinmt• 10 years ago

justinkan

CarolineW• 10 years ago

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• 10 years 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.

napoleond• 10 years ago

Or you could be mildly charitable here and assume that the username was added afterwards, as an edit to the original post.

aleyan• 10 years 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• 10 years ago

I think Justin Kan is a bit of a special case here:

http://justinkan.com/why-i-love-snapchat

jypepin• 10 years 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.

m0th87• 10 years 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.

jedberg• 10 years ago

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

OoTheNigerian• 10 years 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• 10 years 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.

paul4• 10 years 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)

I look forward to more of the same :)

55555• 10 years ago

Another cruise co-founder was Justin's younger brother.

paul4• 10 years ago

Yes! Fixed.

opendomain• 10 years 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

paul4• 10 years 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.

DanBlake• 10 years ago

I dont see how it couldn't have. Twitch was almost undoubtedly built on the JTV tech stack and staff. Also consider that Amazon owns the justin.tv domain.

justin• 10 years ago

same company

ptaffs• 10 years ago

regarding the Obama clip, i'm impressed Obama can talk so clearly about how airBnB works, for someone who lives in a bubble of security and probably never thinks about where he's going to stay when he goes on holiday, he can describe very well the social reputation components of airBnB.

paul4• 10 years ago

Yeah, I was super impressed as well. Obama understands AirBnb better than many people in tech do.

ntumlin2• 10 years ago

Presidents are extremely smart and can quickly pick up on topics. Combine this with advisers giving you a detailed run down and you get this.

frik• 10 years ago

The guys who write the speeches are called speechwriter, in case you never heard about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speechwriter

On that very page a picture description reads "U.S. President Barack Obama and aides Carol Browner, David Axelrod and Jon Favreau working on a speech (...)".

daniel_levine• 10 years ago

Kyle also introduced the founders of Dropbox!

mkoble11• 10 years ago

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

sahara• 10 years 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• 10 years ago

garyvee

mooreds• 10 years 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• 10 years 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• 10 years ago

Congrats to Justin! Here is a clip he talked about himself his startup experience.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGvS3NvuLWU

johnlbevan2• 10 years ago

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

iLoch• 10 years 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• 10 years ago

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

jamesblonde• 10 years 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.

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