Emmett Shear, longtime CEO of video game-centric livestreaming platform Twitch, announced that he’s leaving the post effectively immediately. Dan Clancy, currently Twitch’s president, w…
Dan Clancy, currently Twitch’s president, will succeed Shear as CEO, effective immediately. In aThursday announcing the decision, Shear said he will continue to work at Twitch in an advisory role.
. In his blog post, Shear thanked Amazon “for being the best acquirer I could have hoped for. Amazon truly supported us and really allowed a product as different as Twitch the room to grow and to be itself. Shear recalled the origins of Twitch, which started as a project in the fall of 2006 to make a 24/7 live reality TV show about Justin Kan’s life. That morphed into Justin.tv, a website designed to let users “lifecast” themselves via online video, which was co-founded by Shear, Kan, Michael Seibel and Kyle Vogt. After gamers began using Justin.tv to broadcast their gameplay, the company launched the dedicated Twitch.
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