Twitch

“It was Justin's third Y Combinator startup, I think, that ended up being a billion dollar exit. And YC funded him three times, and it worked out on the third.”

“Actually the way that we selected the game was we went on, on Twitch and just looked down the list of most popular games in the world and starting, you know, number one is League of Legends. The thing about League of Legends is it doesn't run on Linux and it d…”

“Paul Buhite, he basically threw a piece of advice as the reason why we built a video system, which is the reason why Justin TV could exist, which is the reason why Twitch could exist.”

“Gamers have been streaming on Justin TV since almost the beginning. At any given time, they were 20% of our traffic for years.”

“And if you look at the history of Justin TV, in the first five years, it went from being worth nothing to being worth about twenty four million dollars. In the next three years, it went being worth twenty four million dollars to being worth a billion.”

“Those were the three things that saved our company, made our company work, and strangely, I don't even think, if you take one of those things away, any one of them, we would have died.”

“The major product decisions that Justin TV made that carried through to Twitch to today was chat on the right, video on the left. We decided that in 2006. It is the same way, 2018.”

“It took us three months to start accepting credit cards. I think there was a 30 page contract that we had to read and figure out a sign.”

“What we did is that after 10 minutes of people watching free, free live video, we just put up a big thing that blocked the video that said, your ISP is not doing a free peering relationship with us, so we can no longer serve you video. If you'd like to call to…”

“We basically, Got translation for a whole product for free.”

“The company only started working when Emmett and Kevin started actually talking to the users and figuring out what they wanted. Instead of, you know, the years where all of us just looked at each other, all the competitors just looked at each other, copying ea…”

“Well, and what's crazy is the idea for Twitch happened after that.”

“We had raised about seven or eight million dollars. We had grown to about, I don't know, let's say like thirty million monthly people were watching content. We were making about 750,000 dollars a month in revenue, but we were, we had a million dollars a month …”

“I was the single non-technical person on a four-person co-founding team at JustinTV and Twitch, and like I'll just make it plain, without my three other co-founders, none of that shit happens.”