Justin.tv

“There were about 200 people who are streaming video games across every service, including ours, who garnered maybe 80% of the total audience at the time.”

“Ustream was a live streaming competitor. They had more gaming and they were bigger than us.”

“We had the fire trucks called, and even if the fire trucks had showed up, we would deal with it off camera so that there wasn't a reward for the person doing it. And that it definitely over time Cut down on the amount of harassment we experienced.”

“And six months later, we'd, we'd gotten to a million dollars a year of run, you know, a 100,000 dollars a month of profit.”

“I think, 50, sixty million a month.”

“Actually, one of the big things we discovered was, almost immediately, people liked him taking off the camera and talking to them more than they liked almost anything he could be doing. If he was doing something really interesting, like he's taking a trapeze l…”

“It's not building great, beautiful software to win. It's building good enough software and great sales.”

“I think Justin TV worked to some degree because our actual customer was the streamer. And because we were trying to build something that worked for us as a streamer we built something that actually worked because we deeply understood the needs of our customers…”

“We'd been growing at 25%, 30% a month for Almost nine months before we ever launched Twitch.”

“I mean, it ended up being a backpack that had all this equipment, you know, a video encoder that would encode a video stream. And digitize it. And then some software that ran, ran on a small Linux computer that would take that video stream and dynamically allo…”