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Who is Emmett Shear, OpenAI’s Interim Chief Executive?
C.Wright3 months ago
When Emmett Shear, the former chief executive of the livestreaming site Twitch, was named the interim chief executive of OpenAI on Sunday night, it might have seemed a curious choice. After graduating from college in 2005, he spent nearly his entire career at Twitch, the Amazon-owned platform popular among video gamers, as it grew from a fledgling site called Justin.tv to a behemoth with more than 30 million daily viewers, before leaving earlier this year . Mr. Shear, 40, an avid video game player, was viewed as a competent leader who steered Twitch through several transitions. But he faced criticism, including over his handling of claims in 2020 that Twitch’s workplace culture was hostile toward women, and over the site’s slowness in responding to harmful content . Some employees and livestreamers also complained that his focus on maneuvering Twitch toward profitability through cutting costs was eroding the quality of the platform. He also knows Sam Altman, who was forced out of OpenAI by its board of directors on Friday. The two were in the same group at Y Combinator, the start-up fund that invested in both of their early companies.
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