# Emmett Shear, Co-Founder of Twitch

**Author:** The Social Radars
**Type:** Essay
**URL:** https://www.ycombinator.com/library/KM-emmett-shear-co-founder-of-twitch


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In this episode of The Social Radars, Jessica Livingston and Carolynn Levy talk to Twitch co-founder Emmett Shear about
“how Twitch grew from Justin Kan walking around with a camera on his head to one of the biggest communities on the
internet.”

