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Emmett Shear (born 1983) is an American Internet entrepreneur and investor. [ 1 ] [ a ] He co-founded the live video platform Justin.tv . Shear became the chief executive officer of Twitch when it was spun off from Justin.tv, a position he held until March 2023.
Justin Kan speaking at Gnomedex in 2007. The original Justin.tv was a single channel featuring Justin Kan. Wearing a webcam attached to a baseball cap and streamed online via a laptop-backpack system designed by co-founder Kyle Vogt, [10] Kan decided he would wear the camera 24/7, and he began streaming continuous live video and audio at midnight March 19, 2007. [11]
Now, picking up the pieces at OpenAI will be Shear, the 40-year-old co-founder of the video-game live-streaming company Twitch. On Monday, Shear announced he had accepted the job of interim CEO ...
On March 16, 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. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Both Shear and Clancy have been described as "more product-focused than creator-focused". [ 25 ]
OpenAI is bringing in the former head of Twitch as interim CEO just days after the company pushed out its well-known leader Sam Altman, sparking upheaval in the world of artificial intelligence.
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 ...
In 2017, Twitch remained the leading live-streaming video service for video games in the US, and had an advantage over YouTube Gaming, which shut down its standalone app in May 2019. [ 13 ] [ 14 ] [ 15 ] As of February 2020, [update] it had three million broadcasters monthly and 15 million active users daily, with 1.4 million average concurrent ...
In a blog post Thursday announcing the decision, Shear said he will continue to work at Twitch in an advisory role. Shear said he was […] Twitch CEO Emmett Shear Resigns After 16 Years at Streamer