The CEO (one of the co-founders) is 18 years old – and already a prolific entrepreneur.[1] He did a great talk at TechCrunch Battlefield.[2]<p>Impressive work by the Beam team. I'm not a gamer (at all), and even I have way too much fun watching streams on Beam.<p>[1] <a href="http://www.geekwire.com/2016/beam/" rel="nofollow">http://www.geekwire.com/2016/beam/</a>
[2] <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRpgU2tTRWQ" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRpgU2tTRWQ</a>
> We’ve developed a world-first low latency streaming protocol built on top of WebRTC and VP8 to do stream delivery with sub-second latency to power the core of our platform.<p>Nice. Worked on something kinda like that a couple years ago.<p>> Would you rather have Gates, Zuckerberg or Bezos in your corner: “Zuckerberg, hands down. He has a unique global perspective on human interaction and communities. We function as an indirect social network for gamers, and Zuckerberg is the king of social.”<p>interesting.<p>I'd rank him 3rd. Course this guy grew up with Zuckerberg as king and gates running charities.
That was quick, Beam hasn't been around for very long. But they have innovative new stuff, where twitch has been kind of stagnating technically.<p>And access to Microsoft infrastructure and integration with their gaming platforms might help them grow. First stop: Minecraft integration.
The endgame is likely native TwitchPlaysPokemon-esque experiences for Xbox One / Windows 10, something which Sony/Nintendo definitely will not be able to do as easily. (streamer/viewer interaction + Minecraft could make things crazy)
Not to be confused with Beme<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beme" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beme</a>