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Emmett Shear
ROLE CEOAT TWITCHMENTIONS 1LAST SEEN JUNE 18, 2026
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Emmett Shear is an American Internet entrepreneur and investor who co-founded the live streaming platform Justin.tv, which spun off into Twitch in 2011. He served as CEO of Twitch until March 2023, guiding the company through its acquisition by Amazon in 2014. He is currently the CEO of Softmax, an AI alignment startup he co-founded in March 2025. He is also known for briefly serving as interim CEO of OpenAI in November 2023.
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mention·My First Million·JUNE 18, 2026
“He literally wanted to understand the specific meaning of the words that were coming out of their mouth... If they have unclear words, they have unclear thinking.”
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