Twitch Co-Founder Has Already Founded And Sold A Billion Dollar Company. Is He On Track To Do The Same Thing With A New Startup?

ByAmy Lamareon September 15, 2018inArticles›Entertainment

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Chen and Kan met about 10 years ago when Kan had an idea for a live video platform that would stream his life 24/7, “Truman Show” style. Kan attached a camera to his baseball hat and put a bunch of cellular data cards into a backpack. Everything he saw was broadcast on the web. It was a crazy idea that even Kan can admit to today. Justin.tv then changed tracks and became the world’s largest live video platform. Chen credits Kan with inventing modern live streaming. Justin, 35, launched Twitch while he was a physics and psychology student at Yale.

In 2017, Chen and roughly 100 investors provided Atrium with $10.5 million in Series A funding. When it came time to seed Series B, Chen convinced Andreessen Horowitz to put up more than half of the $65 million round.

Atrium has offered its legal services to more than 250 startups who combined have raised $500 million in funding over the past year. Atrium’s client roster includes scooter sharing firm Bird and the digital pharmacy startup Alto.

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