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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.
The announcement attracted controversy, and CEO Emmett Shear later clarified that the role of the council was purely advisory. [80] [81] [82] On June 22, 2020, Twitch Interactive sold CurseForge to Overwolf for an undisclosed sum. [83] In August 2020, Twitch Prime was renamed Prime Gaming, aligning it closer with the Amazon Prime family of ...
Building Twitch. A native of Seattle, Washington, Shear was one of four co-founders of Justin.tv, an early precursor to Twitch that was built to livestream the life of Justin Kan, Shear’s ...
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—who cofounded and formerly headed up streaming service Twitch—was named interim CEO of OpenAI on Sunday after Sam Altman’s shocking ouster, only to be replaced around three days ...
Emmett Shear, a co-founder of the streaming platform Twitch, said early Monday that he had been named interim CEO of the artificial intelligence company. ... Shear later co-founded Twitch ...
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 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.