Emmett Shear: Twitch, 10 Years Later | Justin.tv, Y-Combinator, Founder to CEO
NASA experiments, building Twitch, capitalism and CEO lessons
The Quest Pod with Justin Kan · Emmett Shear, Justin Kan
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Show Notes
Emmett Shear is my co-founder and the CEO of Twitch, the world's biggest live-streaming platform. Growing up, Emmett and I never lived more than a mile and a half away from each other. We've always wanted to build things: from dreaming of our own Scientology-like religion to launching an experiment with NASA into space (which we actually did as high school students). Many of these experiments failed, one turned out different - and we sold it to Amazon for a billion dollars.
On this episode, we reminisce on how the past 10 years went. We talk about writing web applications, building Kiko and Justin.tv, what we learned as investors, and whether capitalism works. Being a CEO is challenging - it's especially great to hear Emmett share some of his learnings, many of which I resonate with deeply.
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