Michael Seibel
Partner, Y Combinator
Michael Seibel is currently a full-time partner at Y Combinator. Previously, he was the co-founder and CEO of Justin.tv from 2007 - 2011 and the co-founder and CEO of Socialcam in 2012. During 2012, Socialcam participated in Y Combinator, raised angel financing from a group of amazing investors, and sold to Autodesk Inc. for $60M. In 2014 Justin.tv became Twitch Interactive and under the leadership of Emmett Shear and Kevin Lin sold to Amazon for $970M.
Before getting into tech, he spent a year as the finance director for a US Senate campaign. Michael is a graduate from Yale University with a bachelors degree in political science.
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