The Quest Pod with Justin Kan

Emmett Shear: Twitch, 10 Years Later | Justin.tv, Y-Combinator, Founder to CEO

Feb 2, 2021

02:14:38

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Emmett Shear

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Episode notes

Are Millionaires Evil?

01:56

Is There a Disconnection in the Company?

04:21

The Difference Between Extractv Wealth Creation and Creative Wealth Creation

02:14

Introduction

2min

The Evergreen School for Children

3min

How We Lost Connection After Being Together From Second to Eighth Grade

3min

Is That the Training We Take for Granted?

2min

Is Foppy Dust Work in Orer Space Anymore?

2min

Engineering Class - What Is It Like?

2min

Did We Ever Test It?

3min

How to Start a Start Up?

2min

Are You Building a Mobile Application?

2min

10.

Is Building Like Sin Rapletor Oroois Very Hard?

3min

11.

The Trade-Off Between Focus and Lack of Focus

2min

12.

Adding Michael to the Team Really Stabilized Aan

4min

13.

I Think the en Billy Was a Good Example of That.

2min

14.

Is There a Market for Video Games?

2min

15.

How to Build Daily Customer Connection Behavior

3min

16.

How Do You Measure Your Monthly Active Users?

4min

17.

The Hardest Questions You Should Ask Yourself as a Founder

2min

18.

Y, Nowy, and Then They Just Keep Coming Back and Bidding

2min

19.

How to Lock in a Win No Matter How Much Money You Make

3min

20.

Why Do So Many People Don't Want Millions?

1min

21.

Can I Buy a Nice House in San Francisco for a Million Dollars?

2min

22.

The Marginal Utility of More Money Is Pretty Low

2min

23.

Nationalize the Digital Assets?

2min

24.

The Difference Between Extractv Wealth Creation and Creative Wealth Creation

2min

25.

Is There a Need to Create Millionaires to Create Wealth?

2min

26.

Are Millionaires Evil?

2min

27.

Do You Need to Let People Get Rich by Building Businesses?

3min

28.

Is It Morally Good to Handle This Wealth?

2min

29.

We Don't Need Managers

3min

30.

The Cure Is Worse Than the Disease

4min

31.

The Goal for Democracy Is Not to Select the Most Competent Possible Leader

2min

32.

The Ultimate Duty of a Government Is to Avoid War

2min

33.

Democracy Is Good

2min

34.

What's the Most Difficult Thing You've Had to Do in the Last 6 Years?

3min

35.

The Curious Mindset

3min

36.

Is There a Way to Improve Internal Communication?

2min

37.

Is the Auditor Trusting the Leadership?

3min

38.

Is There a Disconnection in the Company?

4min

39.

The Future of Twitch?

2min

40.

Lives Streaming

2min

41.

What Changed About Just and TV?

4min

42.

The Evolution of Justveas

2min

43.

The Silken Valed Story

2min

44.

Yosis, Hedeserves Profit for That.

2min

45.

How Did You Level Up as a CTO?

2min

46.

The War of Attrician

3min

47.

What Are the Biggest Management Mistakes That You Made?

3min

48.

What I Learned From the Product Cup Driven Company at Tueh

3min

49.

Is Selling Twitch to Amazon the Right Move?

2min

50.

Emmet's Super Power Is Fund Raising

3min

51.

I'm Tired

2min

52.

You Really Carry It Home

2min

53.

You Know, I'm Not Sure, but I Don't Know, It Could Be Worth More

2min

54.

Don't Sell the Winner

2min

55.

The Quest Jest on Substack

1min

Emmett Shear is my co-founder and the CEO of Twitch, the world's biggest live-streaming platform. Growing up, Emmett and I never lived more than a mile and a half away from each other. We've always wanted to build things: from dreaming of our own Scientology-like religion to launching an experiment with NASA into space (which we actually did as high school students). Many of these experiments failed, one turned out different - and we sold it to Amazon for a billion dollars.

On this episode, we reminisce on how the past 10 years went. We talk about writing web applications, building Kiko and Justin.tv, what we learned as investors, and whether capitalism works. Being a CEO is challenging - it's especially great to hear Emmett share some of his learnings, many of which I resonate with deeply.

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