Emmett Shear: Life After Twitch, Jeff Bezos Lessons & AI Doomsda…
About This Episode
Shaan Puri interviews Twitch co-founder Emmett Shear about his tenure at the company, leadership lessons from Jeff Bezos, and his concerns regarding AI safety. They explore how AI will disrupt consumer internet by turning raw data like video into searchable systems of record.
Episode Description
Show Notes
- 0:00Intro
- 4:30Did you always have an insatiable curiosity?
- 8:30How to solve any problem
- 13:23The importance of understanding your customers / users needs
- 22:15Emmett’s favorite business ideas right now
- 41:00Is AI going to kill us all?
- 56:50Was Twitch luck or skill? Will Emmett try to build another unicorn?
- 59:00Lessons from Paul Graham
- 1:09:00What’s the difference between people who are good vs. great?
Links
- Twitch
- Paul Graham
- Patrick Collison
- Andy Jassey
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Key Takeaways
Adopt a 'solve the problem by solving the problem' mindset to avoid wasting time on complex workarounds or 'hacks' that only address symptoms.
When conducting user interviews, ignore a customer's specific feature requests and instead probe for their underlying motivations, such as the desire for money, fame, or validation.
AI creates a massive opportunity to disrupt incumbents like Yelp by using video as the primary system of record, allowing AI to dynamically extract metadata that text-based databases cannot easily capture.