Episode 3: Twitch

Acquired

Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal

Venturecapital, Ma, Investing, Acquisitions, Startups, Vc, Investment, Business, Technology

4.8 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2015

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Ben and David discuss Amazon's acquisition of Twitch in 2014. Unlike previous episodes, this recent acquisition still has a lot of open questions, and Amazon hasn't publicly reported growth of Twitch since the purchase. Ben and David talk about Justin Kan's original product with Justin.tv, and the transformation into the Twitch that Emmett Shear is running today.

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0:00.0	All right.
0:04.0	Who got the truth?
0:05.0	Who got the truth?
0:07.0	Is it you, is it you, is it you, who got the truth now?
0:12.0	Is it you, is it you, is it you?
0:14.0	Sit me down, say it straight, another story on the way.
0:19.0	We've got the truth.
0:21.0	Welcome to episode 3 of Acquired This is the one where we talk about
0:25.4	Twitch. Today we're going to try something a little bit different. We've been
0:30.0	listening to our listeners and getting a lot of feedback that not only do David and I
0:35.4	agree too much but we're doing softballs and you know feedback is a gift then
0:40.2	yeah thank you we really like hearing from everyone and you know, well originally our goal was to set out and only review the super stellar spectacular ones that only went super well and what we can learn from those. It's a little boring.
0:57.0	People are telling us they want some space.
0:59.0	Yeah, so we're going to do, obviously Twitch has been a little bit more recent.
1:05.0	It's a 2014 acquisition and I hear recording in November of 2015 and there's still a lot of open questions and I think you know people are
1:16.1	generally positive and optimistic and there's a exploding market there but a lot more
1:21.0	to talk about whole lot to talk about. A whole lot to talk about.
1:23.8	As always, thank you everyone for the reviews, for the feedback.
1:27.6	You can check out our website at acquired.FM.
1:30.8	We're on Twitter at acquired FM and please keep the feedback coming.
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