About Justin.tv

Founded in October 2006, Justin.tv is the largest online community for people to broadcast, watch and interact around live video. With 40 million unique visitors per month and over 500,000 channels broadcasting live video, Justin.tv is the leading live video site on the Web, enabling users to create real-time connections with others around the world. Headquartered in San Francisco, Justin.tv is funded by: Y Combinator, Alsop Louie Partners and Draper Associates.


The Team

Michael is the CEO and is having a blast working with great friends.



Justin comes up with product ideas, keeps the tech team in line, writes specs, does technical hiring, installs servers, buys hardware, writes user features, and tries hard to get out of the office on his motorcycle once in a while.

Emmett made the website.

Kyle is an MIT safe-cracker and builder of killer robots.

Bill was the first employee of London-based startup NetPD, which was acquired by Macrovision in 2003. After leaving Macrovision, Bill became second Justin.TV employee in 2007.

Jacob loves working at Justin.tv but would rather be making a film about Space Penguins.

Eric makes Video awesome, he also likes electronics and robotics.

Tim broke the website.

Kevin is looking at this blurb and thinking he should've come up with something more witty.

Arram's not a hero, he's a silent guardian, a watchful protector... a Dark Knight.

When Tia isn't trying to Bring Geeky back, she is taking care of the millions of registered users here at JTV

Evan preaches the gospel of Justin.tv to all that listens and can also own anyone who challenges him on the back nine.

When Jon isn't slaying dragons at the Colo, he's kicking butt and taking names at the JTV offices at boardgames.

Caleb spends all day thinking about how to make the site more awesome. Data and users are his friends

Suave Justin.tv Agent by day, abstract artist by night, When not in the bubble lounge, Art spends most of his time on secret missions around the US.

「毎日、彼は頑張っています。」

After training with the Russian Ballet from the age of four, Kim hung up her pointe shoes and went on to master every art known to man before settling on the visual arts. She still talks fondly of learning the dance with Madam Butterfly

Dropping out of Stanford is like Graduating from Yale, so Mike is ahead of all of us.

Scott knows what's up with Ad sales. What's up Scott?

David is Chief Business Officer at Justin.tv. He makes buisness grow.

An acknowledged master of the informatic arts, Ammon's teachings are directely decended through his teacher Hideji Bansho from the great master Miyamoto Musashi.

Gary can read the impulses on cat-5 cables through the tips of his fingers. On the ops team, Gary wrangles servers, ports and wire.

David is only a man. He does what men must. He ply his trade and refines his skills. But secretly, he is waiting, waiting for the pivotal moment when his code spontaneously ascends to sentience and ushers in the post-human era.

Mike is a triple threat. Hacker, musician, video gamer. Still, he secretly wishes he was Batman.

Paul is the great grandson of the Lone Ranger. He has a sock puppet he affectionatly calls Tonto.

Joseph has been exiled to Siberia, was voted sexiest geek in 2000 by a Sweedish magazine, and has one sucessful startup under his belt.

Bob has unix locks, and by God, he's not afraid to use them.

Sarah's an LA transplant with a mad passion for music, the Lakers and rocking out. She has also perfected the art of kicking trash and The Flying Jimmy so watch out.

Gene knocks people out and chokes them unconscious as a mixed martial artist when he's not being a marketing stud.

Renee did account managment at Google; at Justin.tv now she does content outreach.

Caitlin's accent isn't British.

Joanna is a San Francisco native with a ridiculous amount of pride for her city. She loves going to shows when she isn't working on music content outreach.

The Technology

Justin.tv's live video platform scales to support massive audiences by measuring demand in real-time and intelligently replicating streams to additional servers to meet that demand. Constructed by a team of MIT and Yale graduates, the Justin.tv platform pushes more than 177 Gbps of video at peak usage – the equivalent of 16,946 standard DVDs per hour.

The Investors

Justin.tv received seed and angel investment from:
Paul Graham
Y-Combinator
Paul Buchheit
Aydin Senkut
Mike Maples
Georges Harik

Justin.tv has raised a Series A round from Alsop Louie Paulners and Tim Draper.