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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Twitch comes up
Substack: Chris Best and Hamish McKenzie
- ▶ 2:00 Guy Raz And while this isn't a new story, these products have been pushed aside by podcasts, the aforementioned YouTube channels, social media feeds, Twitch streams, and something that's grown a lot in recent years.
- ▶ 45:03 Hamish McKenzie I remember on the first demo day we did, which is the one that's for YC alumni, Emmett Scheer came up to me and he said, Emmett Scheer, founder of, co-founder of Twitch, who was on the show a couple years ago, yep. 2 times in the scene
Roku: Anthony Wood
HIBT Lab! Cruise: Kyle Vogt
- ▶ 0:54 Guy Raz Cruise was founded in 2013 by Kyle Vogt, and before working on Cruise, he dropped out of MIT to help start Justin TV, the company that eventually became the streaming platform Twitch.
- ▶ 9:49 Guy Raz One was Twitch and one was social cam and you, you end up sort of focusing on Twitch and, and Twitch is, as most people know today is, is a platform for video gamers to sort of live stream their gaming and so on. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:42 Guy Raz So, all right, you decide to leave Twitch in, I think, in 2013. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:59 Guy Raz I'm Guy Raz, and I'm talking with Kyle Vogt, one of the co-founders of the streaming platforms JustinTV and Twitch.
- ▶ 22:37 Guy Raz That, that summer, Amazon acquires Twitch, um, for almost a billion dollars. 2 times in the scene
Twitch: Emmett Shear
- ▶ 1:06 Guy Raz I'm Guy Raz, and on the show today, how Emmett Shear turned a twenty-four-seven live stream of his best friend into a billion-dollar gaming platform, Twitch. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:15 Guy Raz When we come back in just a moment, how Emmett and Justin use that money to launch a live stream of Justin's life, capturing every minute of his day, including sleeping and bathroom breaks, and how that experiment eventually turns into…
- ▶ 39:50 Emmett Shear Like, of course, the Twitch app is free, but
- ▶ 51:42 Guy Raz So it's early 2011, and Justin TV has basically split into two separate businesses, a mobile video service and a gaming platform that will soon become Twitch. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 57:24 Guy Raz Like, when you finally launch it as a standalone site, um, what, they, they just, all of a sudden, this community kind of began to coalesce, and, and just start, they just start walking into the front door of, of, of Twitch? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:04:48 Guy Raz So, when you launched it, right, when Twitch was like the thing, it was free, right? 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:16:12 Guy Raz So I want to ask you about the sale of Twitch to Amazon, and we've done this in the show before where we've had many companies that, that were sold and acquired, and in most cases was the right decision, right? 10 times in the scene
HIBT Lab! Burn Rate: Andy Dunn
Discord: Jason Citron
Goodreads: Otis and Elizabeth Chandler
- ▶ 56:33 Otis Chandler Amazon made it a little easy in that they told us they would want to run us as an independent subsidiary and an independent brand, just like they run Audible and IMDB and Zappos and now Twitch, and they have a long list of track record of…
Live From The HIBT Summit: Gary Vaynerchuk
- ▶ 21:51 Gary Vaynerchuk How am I going to build a big Twitch channel?
How I Built Resilience: Lisa Baird of National Women's Soccer League
- ▶ 16:21 Lisa Baird We have CBS as a partner, and we have Twitch as a partner, and Twitch had our international rights. 2 times in the scene
How I Built Resilience: Pokimane
- ▶ 1:11 Guy Raz And today, my guest is Iman Anis, who is better known as Pokimane, the number one female streamer on Twitch. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:15 Pokimane (Imane Anys) And I heard about Twitch and Twitch streaming because I was already in this gaming community. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:08 Guy Raz I mean, you've got, I think, like, five and a half million followers on Twitch, but across your social media channels and YouTube, you've got, like, 20,000,020 million followers.
- ▶ 10:55 Pokimane (Imane Anys) Whereas on Twitch, uh, the site where I live stream, you can follow a channel so you see when they're live and you see when they're not, but you can also subscribe for a set monthly fee per month.
- ▶ 14:43 Guy Raz Hey, welcome back to How I Built This Resilience Edition, and I'm speaking with Pokimane about some of the difficulties she's faced as one of the biggest streamers on Twitch.
- ▶ 24:02 Pokimane (Imane Anys) That's why you say, oh, you have five million on Twitch, but cumulatively you have over twenty million followers.
Ring: Jamie Siminoff
- ▶ 1:22:35 Jamie Siminoff and I mean, you look at Twitch, like you look at all the, they've just kept founders and just done.