Venturetakes #3 - Michael Siebel (Ycombinator) on The Equity Podcast

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Hello, my name is Michael Seibel. I am 39 years old and have lived and worked in the Bay Area since 2006. Currently, I work at Y Combinator as a Group Partner and Managing Director of YC early stage.

Previously, I was a 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 (link). 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, I spent a year as the finance director for a US Senate campaign and before that, I graduated from Yale University with a bachelor's degree in political science. Today I spend the large majority of my free time cooking, reading, traveling and going for long drives. I live in San Francisco, CA with my amazing wife Sarah and our son Jonathan.