Justin.tv is the leader in live video, and the place to broadcast and share video online.
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 has a British accent, a PhD in Math, a talent for music, and a passion for beating computers into submission.
Jacob loves working at Justin.tv but would rather be making a film about Space Penguins.
Eric helps make search awesome.
He is a rails enchanter, there are some who call him...Tim
Kevin is looking at this blurb and thinking he should've come up with something more witty.
Tia plans on bringing Geeky back, one Community at a time
Arram joined Justin.tv after moving to the bay area with the intention of working for a tech start up.
Megan quit her cushy job at Google during a recession and moved across the country to work for these guys.The Technology
The Justin.tv live video network is powered by Python Media Server - a custom built live streaming video server cluster. The network is 100% owned and operated by Justin.tv and scales to new heights weekly.
The Justin.tv chat system is powered by the Twisted Chat Server - a custom built chat server that implements a variety of filtering and moderation techniques and relays well over a million messages a day.
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 Partners and Tim Draper.
