Silicon Valley Big Wig Targets the Legal Market

This summer, serial entrepreneur Justin Kan set his sights on disrupting the legal profession.

Kan famously sold Twitch -- where people can watch other people playing video games -- to Amazon for $970 million in 2014. More recently, he was a partner at Y Combinator, a tech incubator that earned a reputation for spotting disruptive companies by investing in Airbnb, Dropbox and others that are collectively worth billions of dollars.

While launching start ups, Kan said he inadvertently became a “power user” of corporate legal services and was frustrated by the lack of automation.

Out of this experience, he along with Bebe ...