Dan Kan (executive)

Daniel Kan is an American entrepreneur and technology executive. He is the co-founder and chief operating officer of Cruise Automation. Kan and Cruise Senior Director Kyle Vogt are listed as number 7 on Fortune's 2016 40 Under 40 List.[1]

Background

Kan was raised in the Seattle area in a family of entrepreneurs. Kan is the younger brother of Justin Kan, the founder of Justin.tv (which later became Twitch) and Socialcam.[2]

Kan graduated from Claremont McKenna College in 2009 and planned to pursue a career in finance.[3] Instead, Kan began working for the San Francisco startup UserVoice.

Following his time at UserVoice, Kan founded several companies, including Appetizely[3] and Exec[3] in 2011. Exec operated as an on-demand personal assistant service that most customers used for house cleaning purposes. In 2014, Kan sold Exec to Handy, a San Francisco-based on-demand service company.[4]

Cruise automation

During college, Kan spent a summer interning at Justin.tv where he met Kyle Vogt. Kan later joined Vogt at Cruise Automation in 2014 after the company participated in Y-Combinator, a startup accelerator that mentors up-and-coming entrepreneurs. Cruise was acquired by General Motors in March 2016, reportedly for over $1 billion.[5] The company plans to hire over 1,100 new employees by 2021.[6]

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