111 Quotes by Justin Kan

Early-stage startups are all about the founders and team.

After learning about Snapchat Stories, I've become obsessed with Snapchat.

I don't think the music business is a very good business to be in.

With Whale, I'm like the first user. My feedback is around my experience as a content creator.

It helps tremendously to have operating startup experience when advising startups. It is much easier to tell people how to talk to customers, build product, manage an engineering team, raise money from investors, and talk to press when you've done it before yourself.

Electronic music is the first genre to realize how to use the music for marketing something else, which is playing festivals and club nights where they really make money.

The original concept for JTV was that we would give people a window into other people's lives. The problem is that if that window is 24/7, when you look in at any random moment, odds are you are going to be bored.

Snapchat built an elegant, incredibly well-thought-out tool to make it fun, simple, and frictionless for normal people to share snippets of their lives in an interesting way.

Having a start-up is all about being able to see what works and change your idea.