The New Language of the Internet

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[00:02:52] – (First question) – History of interactive entertainment

[00:04:10] – Interactivity from the clubs in Vienna and what he learned from that 

[00:05:16] – Origins of Justin.TV and when gaming became the focus for Twitch

[00:08:59] – What he enjoyed about video streaming games early on

[00:10:21] – Interactive experience between creators and community

[00:12:28] – Emotes on twitch and how they came to be 

[00:14:45] – Business of emotes and the affiliates 

[00:16:27] – How these features are proliferating out on the internet and changing it

[00:17:21] – How far we are in the streamer-influencer phenomenon 

[00:20:00] – Building an effective platform for fans

[00:23:07] – Evolution of the just chatting piece of Twitch

[00:24:58] – Favorite parts of Twitch from followers: Chess

[00:26:45] – Running a business within a larger business

[00:28:09] – Most interesting trend in the market today 

[00:30:40] – Effective ways for recruiting the team

[00:31:35] – Most curious about what is happening on the internet today

[00:33:06] – Advice from the early days of Twitch

[00:35:55] – Ira Glass video taste and making things

[00:36:34] – Focus on strategic mission

[00:38:06] – Identifying the customer

[00:40:40] – Starting small

[00:41:45] – Investors focus on potential market size

[00:43:00] – Most common reasons talented people fail

[00:43:47] – Kindest thing anyone has done for him