How Twitch's CEO thinks about tech addiction
Channels with Peter Kafka
Vox Media Podcast Network
4.4 • 585 Ratings
🗓️ 22 November 2018
⏱️ 51 minutes
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| 0:57.7 | This is Recode Media from the Vox Media Podcast Network. I'm Kurt Wagner in for Peter Kafka, |
| 1:03.9 | and I'm here at the Vox Media Studio in San Francisco with Emmett Shear, the CEO of Twitch. |
| 1:09.3 | By the time you hear this episode, Twitch will have finished its annual conference TwitchCon. We're taking it a week beforehand. Emmett, welcome to Recode Media. Thank you for having me. Thank you for being here. I wish that our listeners could see your socks. We were just talking about you are wearing Twitch socks today. Yeah. By the time you hear this, Twitchcom will be over, but you should come to the next TwitchCon |
| 1:30.1 | where there will probably be socks today. Yeah. By the time you hear this, TwitchCon will be over, but you should come to the next TwitchCon |
| 1:30.1 | where there will probably be socks available. |
| 1:31.9 | Well, yeah, okay, you're right. |
| 1:33.8 | All of our listeners have missed out on their sock opportunity. |
| 1:37.1 | But good plug for next year's TwitchCon. |
| 1:40.7 | Thank you for being here. |
| 1:41.7 | There's like a lot of stuff that I want to get to, but I think we should |
| 1:45.4 | probably set the stage by figuring out what Twitch is. And I say that as someone who knows what |
| 1:53.4 | Twitch is, and I think a lot of people do, but at the same time, I think there are a lot of people |
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