Emmett Shear (@eshear) — Twitter Score 288 out of 1000

Emmett Shear is a technology entrepreneur who co-founded Twitch and currently serves as CEO of Softmax. Emmett Shear's Twitter Score is 288 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of August 2026, ranking #1,162 (top 0.5%) among 483,944 tracked accounts.

Emmett Shear co-founded Twitch, the live-streaming platform that raised $15 million from Bessemer Venture Partners, Alsop Louie Partners, and Draper Associates in 2012 before Amazon acquired it for $970 million in 2014. He also co-founded Justin.tv, the predecessor platform from which Twitch emerged. Emmett Shear previously served as a part-time partner at Y Combinator.

Emmett Shear was appointed interim CEO of OpenAI in November 2023 following Sam Altman's ouster, a role he held briefly before departing. He has since co-founded Softmax, which describes itself as an independent research lab building a massively multiplayer benchmark for social intelligence.

Emmett Shear has 123,139 followers as of August 2026 on the platform and has published 48,973 posts. Emmett Shear has been mentioned by 157 accounts a total of 1,603 times.

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The accounts that follow Emmett Shear include 1,314 founders, 371 angel investors, 244 influencers and 8 VCs. Among them are Marc Andreessen, Sam Altman, Toly, Erik Voorhees, Ansem and Kyle Samani.