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Kevin Lin
Co-Founder & Former COO of Twitch | Co-Founder & CEO of Metatheory | Founding GP, Lifelike Capital | Angel Investor Turned Venture Capitalist & Game Builder
Kevin Lin co-founded Twitch and, as its COO, helped build the platform that redefined live streaming before its $970M sale to Amazon. He has since backed 400+ startups including Oura and Cruise, founded the video game studio Metatheory, and launched the venture fund Lifelike Capital. Few operators have seen as many sides of how online platforms get built. On stage, he offers a candid view of gaming, venture, and human-AI collaboration.
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Kevin Lin biography
Kevin Lin has spent two decades building at the edge of how people play, connect, and create online. He is best known as the co-founder and former Chief Operating Officer of Twitch, the live streaming platform he helped grow from a scrappy startup into the home of live gaming and online community, acquired by Amazon in 2014 for roughly $970 million. Over more than a decade building the company, he helped scale Twitch to roughly 90% of the game live-streaming market, more than 2,000 employees, and over $1.5 billion in revenue, and created TwitchCon, its flagship live event. The platform reshaped how a generation watches, plays, and participates in entertainment together.
Technology speaker Kevin Lin is today the co-founder and CEO of Metatheory, a video game studio, and Founding General Partner of Lifelike Capital, a global consumer technology venture fund focused on gaming, social, and emerging technology. Through Lifelike, he launched Ikigai Launchpad, a Taipei-based accelerator that invests in and creates opportunities for founders across Asia. An active angel investor since 2015 with more than 400 investments, his portfolio includes the smart-ring company Oura, whose board he chaired, the self-driving pioneer Cruise Automation, later acquired by GM, and the consumer-hardware brand Nothing, giving him an unusually wide view of where consumer technology is heading.
From Operator to Investor to Builder
Beyond his companies and investments, Kevin co-founded Gold House, the leading Asian American cultural and civic organization, served as a visiting partner at Y Combinator in 2020, and has sat on the board of Krafton, the studio behind PUBG. A Yale graduate in ecology and evolutionary biology, he has traced a career arc from operator to investor to founder once more, giving him firsthand perspective on nearly every side of how technology companies are built, funded, and scaled. He believes the design choices made today around human-AI collaboration will determine whether the technology empowers people broadly or concentrates power in fewer hands, and his current work is aimed squarely at the former.
As a speaker, Kevin Lin offers a candid, builder’s-eye view of live streaming, gaming, venture investing, and the future of human-AI collaboration. Whether in a fireside chat, a moderated conversation, or on a panel, he draws on the full sweep of his experience, from scaling Twitch through the last recession to backing hundreds of founders, to help audiences understand how transformative platforms actually get built and what responsible innovation looks like in the age of AI.
Kevin Lin Speaking Videos
Kevin Lin - Audience Interactive Video: A Live Video Paradigm Ushered in by Gaming and Esports
Kevin Lin on Finding Your Ikigai: From Twitch to Taiwanese Startups | CONNECTED Money Talks
Kevin Lin Keynote Topics
Kevin tells the inside story of Twitch, the live-streaming platform that began as a gaming offshoot of Justin.tv and grew into the dominant home of live gaming before Amazon acquired it for roughly $970 million in 2014. He shares what it took to scale a platform to hundreds of millions of viewers, the hard trade-offs founders face, and the lessons of building a category-defining company through a recession and against long odds.
Long before the creator economy had a name, Kevin and his team at Twitch built the partner program that let people earn a living by playing, streaming, and building community in real time. He traces how live, interactive video reshaped entertainment, why community is the real product, and what brands, platforms, and creators can learn about turning audiences into thriving economies.
After Twitch, Kevin became one of the most prolific consumer-technology investors of his generation, with more than 400 angel and venture investments behind companies like the smart-ring maker Oura and the self-driving pioneer Cruise. Drawing on a builder's instincts, he shares how he spots durable companies early, what separates a passing fad from a lasting shift, and where he sees the next wave forming across gaming, social, and emerging technology.
Kevin argues that the design choices being made right now around how humans and AI work together will decide whether the technology empowers people broadly or concentrates power in a few hands. With two decades spent building platforms that shape behavior at scale, he makes a clear-eyed case for human-centered design, and explains why builders, investors, and leaders all have a stake in getting this moment right.
Now based in Taipei, Kevin is investing in and building alongside the next generation of founders across Asia, through his fund Lifelike Capital, his accelerator Ikigai Launchpad, and his work co-founding Gold House. He shares why so much of the coming decade of consumer technology will be built in Asia, how cross-border founders can win, and what Western companies consistently get wrong about the region.
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FAQs on Booking Kevin Lin
Why Kevin Lin?
Booking Kevin Lin is a strategic choice for events that want an authentic, deeply experienced voice on technology, gaming, and venture. As the co-founder and former COO of Twitch, he helped build one of the defining platforms of the streaming era and guided it to a roughly $970 million acquisition by Amazon. Since then he has founded a game studio, launched a global venture fund, made more than 400 angel investments in companies like Oura and Cruise, and helped build Gold House into a leading cultural organization. That rare operator-investor-founder combination lets him speak with credibility to entrepreneurs, executives, and investors alike. He is especially compelling in fireside chats, moderated conversations, and panels, where his candor and range come through, making him an ideal fit for events on technology, innovation, gaming, and the future of AI. To bring Kevin Lin to your next event, contact Aurum Speakers Bureau.
Is Kevin Lin a co-founder of Twitch?
Yes. Kevin Lin is a co-founder of Twitch and served as its Chief Operating Officer. The platform grew out of Justin.tv and became the world's leading destination for live game streaming and online community, and in 2014 it was acquired by Amazon for roughly $970 million. Lin spent close to a third of his life building the company, in what he has described as years of "bleeding purple," Twitch's signature color.
What does Kevin Lin do now?
Today Kevin Lin is the co-founder and CEO of Metatheory, a video game studio, and Founding General Partner of Lifelike Capital, a global consumer technology venture fund focused on gaming, social, and emerging technology. He also runs Ikigai Launchpad, a Taipei-based startup accelerator supporting founders across Asia, and remains an active angel investor and board member across the consumer technology landscape.
What topics does technology speaker Kevin Lin cover?
Kevin Lin speaks on building and scaling platforms, the streaming and creator economy, venture investing from a founder's perspective, the future of gaming and community, and human-AI collaboration. He generally prefers fireside chats, moderated Q&As, and panel discussions, where his candid, builder's perspective is at its best. To book Kevin Lin as a speaker, contact Aurum Speakers Bureau.
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