Emmett Shear, CEO of Twitch, will step down after around a decade as the firm’s leader. Shear announced the news in a blog post written on Thursday, declaring he will become involved in the firm as an advisor. Dan Clancy will take up his role as the CEO who has been President of Twitch since 2019.
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,” Shear tweeted.
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Emmett Shear was a founding member of Justin.tv which was the diverse live streaming provider that evolved into Twitch. Justin.tv was ultimately overtaken by Twitch which was its spin-off gaming provider, which subsequently became the team’s main objective in 2014. The following year, Amazon paid $970 million for the corporation, which was a steal given Twitch’s large cultural influence today.
In a blog post, Shear described his readiness to move on from the company he’s been intimately involved with for 16 years. “Twitch often feels to me like a child I’ve been raising as well,” Shear said. “And while I will always want to be there if Twitch needs me, at 16 years old it feels to me Twitch is ready to move out of the house and venture alone.”
“Emmett has dedicated 16 years to building Twitch, fostering our mission, and inspiring and empowering all of us to serve this incredible community,” Clancy said. “I’m so grateful for his partnership over the last four years, and for the opportunity to continue this work alongside a team that cares so deeply about our streamers and the larger Twitch community.”
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Shear’s resignation from the company and enhance Twitch’s president is not entirely unexpected. Clancy had already been closely involved with the everyday activities of the business and served as a public image for a number of the company’s most important conversations.
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Clancy wrote a lengthy letter to the Twitch community in September, trying to highlight substantial changes to the platform’s profits distribution with top streamers.
In reply to this condemnation, Twitch released an announcement in September that its top artists would be able to keep 70 percent of revenue for the initial 100,000 USD earned, also with a standard 50 percent share going into effect afterward.
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