If pattern breaker was a term in the dictionary, you just might find an image of Justin Kan. From his attempts as a teenager to send a camera to outer space, to selling his first company on Ebay, to strapping a camera to his head to play the starring role on Justin.tv, Kan has always been a man with uncommon ideas and the ability to convince people to follow his lead. On this episode, Mike Maples, Jr. of Floodgate speaks with Kan about the lucrative runaway success of Justin.tv and Twitch, but also his fear of scarcity, chasing extrinsic goals, and what he learned from the failure of Atrium, where he served as CEO.

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