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The CEO who briefly took over for Sam Altman leans into being called 'rando Twitch guy' by Mira Murati
Emmett Shear spent approximately 72 hours as CEO of OpenAI. At the time, Mira Murati called him the "rando Twitch guy." He's leaned into the meme.
TL;DR
- Emmett Shear, former CEO of Twitch, was briefly interim CEO of OpenAI.
- A leaked text exchange revealed Mira Murati referred to Shear as the "rando Twitch guy."
- This nickname went viral, leading to memes and Shear changing his X banner.
- Shear's tech career includes cofounding Justin.tv and Twitch, which was sold to Amazon.
- He is now CEO of an alignment startup called Softmax.