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Seibel: Twitch blocked video to force an ISP into free peering
“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…”
Seibel: Twitch would have failed without his three technical co-founders
“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.”
Seibel: Justin.tv faced imminent death with $500K cash and $250K burn
“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 …”
Seibel: Gamers were 20% of Justin.tv traffic for years before Twitch launched
“Gamers have been streaming on Justin TV since almost the beginning. At any given time, they were 20% of our traffic for years.”
Seibel: Justin.tv reached $24M in five years, then $1B in three
“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.”
Seibel: Justin.tv survived due to technical founders, low spending, and ego
“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.”
Seibel: Paul Buchheit's advice is why Justin.tv and Twitch exist
“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.”
Brockman: OpenAI chose Dota 2 after League lacked Linux support and API
“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…”
The idea for Twitch came only after Justin.tv achieved profitability
“Well, and what's crazy is the idea for Twitch happened after that.”
Justin.tv Succeeded When Founders Stopped Copying Competitors, Says Seibel
“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…”
Seibel: Twitch translated its entire product for free via crowdsourcing
“We basically, Got translation for a whole product for free.”
Seibel: Before Stripe, accepting credit cards required a 30-page contract
“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.”