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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.
— Emmett Shear (@eshear) November 22, 2023 Before taking the top job at OpenAI, Shear—who sold his company to Amazon for almost $1 billion in 2014—described himself in his X profile bio as ...
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 ...
Twitch mobile app icon featuring the platform's signature purple color. Twitch CEO Emmett Shear has stated a desire to support a wide variety of platforms, stating that they wanted to be on "every platform where people watch video". [31]
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]
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 ...
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 ]
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 ...