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Justin Kan

I’m Justin Kan, former co-founder of Twitch, co-founder of Fractal, and now co-founder of Rye! AMA!

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I cofounded and recently launched Rye - an eCommerce API that lets developers add new revenue streams for their products by adding eCommerce and checkout into any app or website. Ask me anything about Rye, entrepreneurship, eCommerce, and crypto. I'll be answering questions on Friday, the 14th of October!
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Ryan Nhieu
How would you summarize your experience going from B2C (Justin.tv, Twitch) to B2B (Rye)? For example what's the big standout differences in the spaces? Do you enjoy it more? differently?
Justin Kan
@rnhieu I like learning about new things. To me businesses are just exploring different markets. B2B is easier to tell if you are building something of value (people are paying for it).
Ramsey Being
Hey Justin, what are you the values of Rye? What considerations are you making in technology and governance? I see Rye is being built on Solana. Have you considered building a Rye blockchain? There are major trade offs building on top of a different chain: no control of the underlying technology, limited by what smart contracts can do, no control of Solana governance, and subjected to variation of fees. With a Rye blockchain you can create a completely specific chain that you own as a community and you can design completely natively, upgradable, and far less external risks, and without limitation. Long term a better approach in enabling Rye to be an unstoppable decentralised organism. Short term, building on Solana would be good for prototyping. Would be great to explore further, contribute and steward? Will there be a central coordinated team, or open up grant funding to wider participants? Cheers, Ramsey https://decentration.org
Ramsey Being
@justinkan check out https://substrate.io, it can be much more viable in time and resources to build a bespoke chain, doesn’t need a huge team. And there’s a lot of generalised substrate based tools and interfaces. Gavin Wood, co-founder and the builder of Ethereum, lead the team who build the substrate framework, which is used to build Polkadot.
Manab Boruah
Saw you with Joma on YouTube. Why didn't you stick with Twitch?
Justin Kan
@manab_boruah we sold it to Amazon
Nikita Steel
Will Rye enable e-commerce on crypto rails? I.e. Crypto payments & delivery oracles?
kemper
Would it be possible to build Rye without crypto? What does crypto enable for the product/company that wouldn't otherwise be possible? I am imagining an on-chain matching engine for orders/inventory, similar to a decentralized token exchange, but I am not sure if this is an accurate mental model.
Joshua Dance
What are your thoughts about AI?
Justin Kan
@joshdance It is here to stay and will impact our society in ways we don't even understand now. But we will always find more things for humans to do, don't worry.
Joshua Dance
How do you feel about crypto and NFTs?
Justin Kan
@joshdance NFTs are going to be an important way that we determine ownership of things online. Crypto is here to stay.
Anu Bhargava
Congrats on the launch!
Samuel Lake
How do you know its time to move on from a project and start another?
Double Clicks Test
Good job
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