Interviewed by Daniel Ayele, Co-Organizer of Yale Tech, at the Yale Tech Conference 2016: Changing the Face of Tech, April 29, San Francisco, California.

Michael is a Partner at Y Combinator, a leading early stage venture capital firm. Prior to joining Y Combinator as an investor, Michael was the Co-Founder and CEO of Justin.tv and Socialcam. Socialcam sold to Autodesk in 2012 and under the leadership of Emmett Shear, Justin.tv became Twitch.tv and sold to Amazon in 2014 for nearly $1 billion. Before getting into startups, he spent a year as the finance director for a US Senate campaign. Michael has a BA in Political Science from Yale University.

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