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Ex-Twitch CEO Emmett Shear is founding an AI startup backed by a16z
Emmett Shear, the former CEO of Twitch and briefly an OpenAI interim CEO, is launching a new AI startup, TechCrunch has learned.
After selling Hipmunk to Concur in 2016, Goldstein became a visiting partner at Y Combinator, and founded an incubator, Astonishing Labs, to back bio research. Goldstein also worked at Tufts University’s Levin Labs for a year as a visiting scientist, where he “[developed] new models for biological systems with a focus on cancer,” according to his LinkedIn page. Shear, who spent nearly his entire career at Twitch after helping to grow the platform from a fledgeling site called Justin.tv to the Amazon-owned behemoth it is today, has long expressed concerns that powerful AI will one day have the capacity to destroy humanity.
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