Visitors stream computer games on the Twitch Interactive booth at the Gamescom video game trade show in Cologne, Germany.
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Emmett Shear, CEO of AmazonTwitch, his live-streaming service, will be relinquishing his role effective immediately, the company announced Thursday.
Amazon acquired Twitch for nearly $1 billion in 2014. The site is best known as a popular live-streaming platform for video gamers. After buying Twitch, Amazon has largely gone into business, although it has offered Prime subscribers perks on the live-streaming platform, such as free games and in-game loot. play.
Shear will be replaced by Twitch President Dan Clancy, who was once Shear’s “close partner,” he wrote. in a blog post. Shear said he is leaving to spend more time with his newborn son. Shear will continue to work at Twitch as an advisor.
“With the birth of my son, it’s time for me to focus my energies on building that small family of startups and I’m ready to devote my energies there,” Shear wrote. “Twitch will always be part of my extended family, a community that I’ve grown in many ways with Twitch itself.”
Shear’s resignation adds to the recent leadership change under CEO Andy Jassy. Earlier this month, Ring CEO Jamie Siminoff announced he stepped down from his role at the home security subsidiary. Last year, executives oversaw Amazon’s Alexa and the hardware research and development team, known as Lab126, leave the company. This past July, public policy director Jay Carney announced he was leaving join Airbnb and 23-year Amazon veteran Dave Clark resignation as retail director the same month.
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