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Michael is a partner at Y Combinator and the CEO of YC startup accelerator.

He moved to the bay area in 2006, and was co-founder and CEO of Justin.tv from 2007 – 2011 and the co-founder and CEO of Socialcam in 2012. Socialcam sold to Autodesk Inc. for $60m in the fall of 2012. In 2014, Justin.tv became Twitch and under the leadership of Emmett Shear and Kevin Lin sold to Amazon for $970m.

Before moving to the bay area, he spent a year as the finance director for a US Senate campaign in Maryland. In 2005, he graduated from Yale University with a bachelor’s degree in political science. He is 38 years old and lives in San Francisco his wife Sarah and son Jonathan.