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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.
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
— 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 ...
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]