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Emmett Shear, longtime CEO of video game-centric livestreaming platform Twitch, announced that he’s leaving the post effectively immediately. Dan Clancy, currently Twitch’s president, will ...
OpenAI co-founder and board director Ilya Sutskever told staff Sunday night that Emmett Shear, co-founder of video streaming site Twitch, will take over as interim CEO, the Information reported ...
Clancy became president of Twitch Interactive Inc., the operator of Twitch in 2019. [4] In March 2023, he became chief executive officer of Twitch, after previous CEO and co-founder Emmett Shear announced he would step down. [5] [6] As CEO, Clancy reports directly to Amazon VP of Audio, Twitch, and Games Steve Boom. [7]
The board chose to name former Twitch chief executive Emmett Shear as OpenAI's chief executive [54] instead of reinstating Altman. [51] Former GitHub chief executive Nat Friedman and Scale AI chief executive Alex Wang reportedly rejected executive offers from the board. [55]
[111] [112] Twitch CEO Dan Clancy reports directly to Boom. [113] In March 2023, Clancy became CEO of Twitch, after previous CEO and Justin.tv co-founder Emmett Shear announced he would step down after 16 years at the company. [114] [115] Both Shear and Clancy have been described as "more product-focused than creator-focused". [116]
Twitch Chief Executive Dan Clancy criticized employees for leaking news to the media about the layoffs of more than 500 employees this week. Twitch is laying off 500 workers. Its CEO is upset the ...
Shear, for his part, wrote on X that he had resigned as CEO of Twitch this spring “due to the birth of my now 9-month-old son.” He said he took the “once-in-a-lifetime opportunity” to lead ...
Emmett Shear (born 1983) is an American Internet entrepreneur and investor. [1] [a] He is the co-founder of live video platform Justin.tv.He was the chief executive officer of Twitch when it was spun off from Justin.tv until March 2023.