Twitch founder Justin reveals if he regrets selling the streaming platform Flickr\/Josh Hallett\/TwitchTwitch co-founder Justin Kan has revealed whether or not he regrets selling the extremely popular streaming platform to Amazon. The 37-year-old took to TikTok on February 7 to answer an interesting question posed to him: If he ever regrets selling Twitch, given how much it\u2019s worth today. Kan\u2019s ties to the site stem all the way back to 2007, when the platform was originally called Justin.tv before it morphed into Twitch. According to Kan, when they sold the site in 2014 for $970 million, he \u201cthought that was an insane amount.\u201d \u201cBut now, reportedly, Twitch is worth fifteen to twenty billion,\u201d he added. \u201cProving that things can always be bigger than you think.\u201d Twitch has become one of the most popular streaming platforms on the internet, with as many as 15 million daily active users just one year ago. Chances are those numbers have grown since then. Nonetheless, Justin doesn\u2019t seem to mind. \u201cA couple things to consider: One, it\u2019s not clear that without the capital infusion from Amazon, Twitch would be anywhere near as successful as it is today,\u201d he said, which is a very good point. Amazon is one of the biggest companies in the world, and with all their resources, Twitch gets a major boost. \u201cAnd two, having the win from selling Twitch helped me realize that having more, more, more and more money in the bank is not necessarily going to make me any happier,\u201d Kan added with a grin on his face. This part is also interesting in that it\u2019s a good lesson for anyone with a business, or anyone just looking to make money in life. There are some things that money can\u2019t buy, and happiness may not be one of them. \u201cSo no, I don\u2019t regret selling, he concluded. \u201cEverything is as it\u2019s supposed to be.\u201d For anyone who was ever curious about Kan selling the platform, his answer should be more than enough to suffice that he has absolutely no regrets at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Twitch founder Justin reveals if he regrets selling the streaming platform Flickr\/Josh Hallett\/TwitchTwitch co-founder Justin Kan has revealed whether or not he regrets selling the extremely popular streaming platform to Amazon. The 37-year-old took to TikTok on February 7 to answer an interesting question posed to him: If he ever regrets selling Twitch, given how […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}