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Twitch Co-Founder Emmett Shear Steps Down as CEO

After more than 16 years at the Amazon-owned livestreaming service, Shear says it's time to move on.

James FudgebyJames Fudge
March 16, 2023
in People
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Emmett Shear Leaves Twitch

Credit: Emmett Shear/Twitch

Twitch Co-Founder and current CEO Emmett Shear announced Thursday that he would be stepping down from the role after more than 16 years at the Amazon-owned, gaming-focused live streaming platform. Twitch’s current President Dan Clancy will step into the CEO role, effective immediately, while Shear will continue to serve in an advisory role.

In a social media post, Shear shared his feelings on working at the company over the last 16 years, but summarized his exit as such:

“In October 2006 we started working on live video for the internet. That became Twitch. More than 16 years later, I’m now a father and ready to move to my next phase of life. I wrote a blog post, but the short version is: thank you so much to everyone who built this with me.”

Shear, Michael Seibel, and Justin Kan originally started Twitch as a reality TV experiment called Justin.TV in late-2006 to early-2007. Eventually other categories were added including a gaming category that would evolve into what is now Twitch. In August of 2014 Amazon acquired Twitch for roughly $970M USD.

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