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Co-founder of Twitch. Former interim CEO of OpenAI. Emmett Shear (born 1983) is an American Internet entrepreneur and investor. [1] [a] He is the co-founder of live video platform Justin.tv. He served as the chief executive officer of Twitch when it was spun off from Justin.tv until March 2023.
Nov 20, 2023 · CNN — A sudden and seismic leadership crisis at OpenAI has led to a revolving door of CEOs at the artificial intelligence company, with tech entrepreneur Emmett Shear becoming the latest to...
Nov 20, 2023 · Topline. In a surprise decision Sunday night, OpenAI’s board of directors picked former Twitch boss Emmett Shear as the company’s interim CEO following the dramatic firing of Sam Altman on Friday.
Nov 21, 2023 · Shear, 40, stepped down as CEO of Amazon.com-owned Twitch this March after more than 16 years at the live video streaming platform The platform was co-founded by Shear as Justin.tv in 2006, before ...
Nov 20, 2023 · Shear is most known for his role in co-founding the gaming livestreaming platform Twitch, which Amazon purchased in 2014 for $970 million. Shear served as Twitch’s longtime CEO from 2011 until early 2023. But the Twitch community has criticized him for years for being an absentee CEO whose actions came too little, too late.
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Nov 21, 2023 · Emmett Shear, the new head of OpenAI: A ‘doomer’ who wants to curb artificial intelligence. Shear believes there is a high risk that AI will become self-aware, initiate a process of...
Nov 20, 2023 · OpenAI is bringing in the former head of Twitch as interim CEO just days after the company pushed out its well-known leader Sam Altman, sparking upheaval in the AI world. Emmett Shear announced ...
