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SF Gate: Twitch & JustinTV Founder Victimized by Hate Crime

Vandals leave racist graffiti on home of Justin Kan
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This just goes to show you racism knows no boundaries.

SF Gate reports that the San Francisco home of Justin Kan, the founder of JustinTV and Twitch, was vandalized with a racist message scrawled on his garage.

Security video caught a bearded White man with with a grey hoodie, baseball cap and a black marker in the act at 3:30 a.m. last Saturday morning.

Justin Kan

“I haven’t had any racist experiences in America,” Kan said. “It was a huge surprise.”

Kan sold his company Twitch to Amazon in 2014 for $1 billion. He attracted wide attention when he livestreamed his life on JustinTV 24/7 in 2007.

Kan is the son of a Chinese immigrant. You can read about his past experiences with racism and thoughts on diversity in Silicon Valley in SF Gate.

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