Welcome to my new show OnlyFriends, where me and three of my crazy successful friends shoot the shit about our lives, the latest tech drama, and our behind-the-scenes stories. It's basically my group chat come to life. On this episode, I bring back the OG Twitch co-founders and we reflect on the early days of Twitch and what it was like for each one of us. We reminisce about old Justin.tv and Twitch stories, our biggest challenges, fears, what we value in each other, and why we truly made a great team.

STARRING:
- Justin Kan: Twitch co-founder and investor (  / justinkan  )
- Emmett Shear: Twitch co-founder and current Twitch CEO (  / eshear  )
- Michael Seibel: Twitch co-founder and current Y Combinator CEO (  / mwseibel  )
- Kyle Vogt: Twitch co-founder and Cruise co-founder (  / kvogt  )

I'm Justin Kan and I've been through the ups and downs in the startup world. I started Justin.tv, which morphed into Twitch and sold it to Amazon for almost $1 billion, became a partner at Y Combinator, and now I'm investing at my venture capital firm, Goat Capital, and working on my podcast, The Quest. Now, I want to share my stories, startup advice, throwback stories, life advice, behind-the-scenes content and what helped me achieve happiness here on YouTube.

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0:00 Intro
3:30 Unheard stories from Justin.tv / Twitch
29:00 The importance of building "bad ideas" quickly
31:15 The worst & best moments from Twitch
50:10 Working dynamic of the team
1:23:45 The problem with 'get-rich-quick' startups
1:27:30 Solving the problems of tomorrow (addiction)
1:50:40 Wrap-up (Joy, curiosity, and motivation)
1:59:30 Outro