Watching his stream sometimes felt like a ‘critique of your own life’

The future is at the intersection of economic and game design

“[Twitch] solves the original sin of the internet, which is having an advertising-based system…We decided to go with banner ads over paying each other online” – Andrew Chen

Incentives to create content change when there are clear economic opportunities

All day, every day he would live to stream his life

The market wasn’t huge for gaming at the time but the engagement and participation was extremely high within the niche

We are entering a new age of creative work – pay the creator, not the company

Incentives to create content drastically improve when the creator has clear income opportunity rather than creating for views/engagement

Roblox is a great example of experimentation with AR/VR, the technological risks are super low when the main objective is to have fun