Daniel Kan is an American entrepreneur and technology executive. He is the co-founder and chief operating officer ofCruise Automation. Kan and Cruise Senior DirectorKyle Vogt are listed as number 7 onFortune's 201640 Under 40 List.[1]
Kan was raised in the Seattle area in a family of entrepreneurs. Kan is the younger brother ofJustin Kan, the founder ofJustin.tv (which later becameTwitch) and Socialcam.[2]
Kan graduated from Seattle'sLakeside School in 2005[3]Claremont McKenna College in 2009 and planned to pursue a career in finance.[4] Instead, Kan began working for the San Francisco startupUserVoice.
Following his time at UserVoice, Kan founded several companies, including Appetizely[4] and Exec[4] 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.[5]
During college, Kan spent a summer interning atJustin.tv where he metKyle Vogt. Kan later joined Vogt atCruise Automation in 2014 after the company participated inY-Combinator, a startup accelerator that mentors up-and-coming entrepreneurs. Cruise was acquired byGeneral Motors in March 2016, reportedly for over $1 billion.[6]