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Justin Kan: Emmett Shear Was the Only Founder Who Believed in Twitch
“When we pivoted Justin TV to Twitch, nobody believed that there would, and this was a market, right? No one believed, no investors, very few of our, even internal employees like believe, and even the founders were skeptical. You know, Emmett deserves the credi…”
Justin Kan: First-Time Founders Must Take Market Risk, Veterans Execution Risk
“When you have nothing going for you, except for you're like willing to put in hard amount, you know, like long hours and a lot of blood, sweat, and tears Then you should focus on things that are like, where there's a lot of market risk, because ideas where the…”
Xu: Chinese streaming evolved from dating apps while US streaming came from gaming
“I think it's also partially because it's so built on top of, it's basically like the live streaming apps there are built on top of dating apps more or less, right? Or like they go hand in hand with that. And so there's a lot of flirtation and with flirtation, …”
Chou: Only 10,000 of Twitch's 3M streamers earn full-time income
“On Twitch, the largest streaming platform, there's over three million active streamers a month. Out of that, there's only 10,000 that are in Twitch's partner program making a full-time income.”
Chen: Modern Games Must Include Built-In Twitch Sharing Features
“Like, there's no point these days in building a new game that doesn't have built-in recording and publishing to Twitch and built-in tournament systems and all the community features and all that stuff that you need.”