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		strictnein on June 8, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Powering Twitch and Medium, Algolia (YC W14) raise... Yeah, it was basically Justin.tv which morphed into Twitch and was bought by Amazon.

sbarre on June 8, 2017 [–]

They might be referring to the one-time-rumored acquisition by YouTube, before Amazon actually closed the deal.

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