Recommended Watch: Twitch CEO on the Future of the Creator Economy - and the Challenge to Keep the Platform Safe
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Emmett Shear is cofounder and CEO of Twitch, the fast-growing streaming service popular with video gamers, which was purchased eight years ago by Amazon for nearly $1 billion. Emmett is also a part-time partner for the startup accelerator, Y Combinator.
Twitch has been in the news recently: It was the platform used by the alleged shooter of 13 people at a Buffalo grocery store to livestream his actions. The company says the stream was removed less than two minutes after the violence started, but, as Shear explained to HBR editor in chief Adi Ignatius, “there's obviously still work to be done” to make livestreaming platforms safer.
Ignatius sat down with Shear in this episode of our video series “The New World of Work” to talk about:
• Tactics and strategies for keeping platforms like Twitch free of racist, hateful, and abusive speech.
• The present and future of the creator economy, which he says promises to be, for some, a more fulfilling alternative to not just the gig economy, but regular full-time employment.
• Monetization, and how it works differently for small creators with 5 followers, and experts with 50,000 followers.
• From his time at Y Combinator, the best pieces of advice he’s developed for young startup entrepreneurs.
This interview part of a series called “The New World of Work,” which explores how top-tier executives see the future and how their companies are trying to set themselves up for success. Each week, HBR Editor Adi Ignatius will interview a leader on LinkedIn Live — and then share an inside look at those conversations and solicit questions for future discussions in a newsletter just for HBR subscribers. If you’re a subscriber, you can sign up for the newsletter here: https://hbr.org/my-library/preference....
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Twitch has been in the news recently: It was the platform used by the alleged shooter of 13 people at a Buffalo grocery store to livestream his actions. The company says the stream was removed less than two minutes after the violence started, but, as Shear explained to HBR editor in chief Adi Ignatius, “there's obviously still work to be done” to make livestreaming platforms safer.
Ignatius sat down with Shear in this episode of our video series “The New World of Work” to talk about:
• Tactics and strategies for keeping platforms like Twitch free of racist, hateful, and abusive speech.
• The present and future of the creator economy, which he says promises to be, for some, a more fulfilling alternative to not just the gig economy, but regular full-time employment.
• Monetization, and how it works differently for small creators with 5 followers, and experts with 50,000 followers.
• From his time at Y Combinator, the best pieces of advice he’s developed for young startup entrepreneurs.
This interview part of a series called “The New World of Work,” which explores how top-tier executives see the future and how their companies are trying to set themselves up for success. Each week, HBR Editor Adi Ignatius will interview a leader on LinkedIn Live — and then share an inside look at those conversations and solicit questions for future discussions in a newsletter just for HBR subscribers. If you’re a subscriber, you can sign up for the newsletter here: https://hbr.org/my-library/preference....
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Francisco Gimeno - BC Analyst This Harvard Business Review podcast is one of a chain showing how some companies see the future and how they are gearing themselves to be successful. The person interviewed here is a special one as he is also part of Y-Combinator, itself a startup accelerator, and the CEO of Twitch, which is becoming the gamers stream media par excellence. What have interested us a lot in here is the way he speaks about the creator's economy and experiences, which has deeply changed from just some years ago due to the digital revolution and its products. The monetisation of this creative experience, the empowerment that this mean for those who before had to deal with middlemen and many steps on the way, and so on. Many other topics anyway, better watch it yourself. Another important learning experience.