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Twitch says it will lay off 400 employees

85 点作者 lrae大约 2 年前

12 条评论

madrox大约 2 年前
I can&#x27;t say I&#x27;m surprised. Combined with Emmett&#x27;s departure, Amazon is painting a picture of the belief that Twitch has hit its cap. Video games are a hits-driven business, and that goes for Twitch as well. The popularity of the service is driven by games they show, and all attempts to break that ceiling or diversify revenue simply hasn&#x27;t worked. Now it&#x27;s time to cut costs and squeeze existing revenue streams.<p>The good news is that, combined with the implosion of most esports, there may be room to innovate again. Twitch and game publishers didn&#x27;t leave a lot of room for startups. If they no longer believe there&#x27;s a ton of money to be made by taking risks, maybe there&#x27;s an opportunity for new businesses to try again.
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jerglingu大约 2 年前
Twitch is probably at peak &quot;enshittification.&quot; Disastrous business decisions, from both the degradation of the product in the name of profits, as well as the questionable way it has engaged with the growing discontent of streamers and its broader user base.<p>At one of the orgs I was with in Amazon, and we had some cross-channel comms and processes with them. It was always funny to us how Twitch employees wore their culture as a badge of honor (they never were really a part of Amazon, culturally speaking), but in practice they embodied the ugliest traits of stereotypical Amazon teams: zero trust or charitability from them, and the adversarial&#x2F;transactional nature of meetings was cranked up to a thousand. They guarded their data and general information from us with a particular zeal out of a confessed mistrust. So you can imagine how ironic and funny it was on our side when their massive leak occurred.
saddd大约 2 年前
Twitch is an immeasurably worse place to work at now than it was before the pandemic.<p>The creep of corp Amazon culture accelerated. Twitch was acquired in 2014, but it was still Twitch, and not Amazon, when it came to culture. That&#x27;s no longer true.<p>It no longer feels like a special environment. These layoffs really seal the magic being gone, though they would have happened even if Amazon hadn&#x27;t acquired Twitch.<p>Many core employees have left in the past few years.<p>Amazon managers have been transferring in at a steady pace.<p>A beloved early employee committed suicide.<p>Twitch&#x27;s source code was leaked shortly afterwards.
jstummbillig大约 2 年前
Wait, how many employees does Twitch have (there are no numbers in the linked articles).
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eigen-vector大约 2 年前
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.twitch.tv&#x2F;en&#x2F;2023&#x2F;03&#x2F;20&#x2F;an-update-about-our-workforce&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.twitch.tv&#x2F;en&#x2F;2023&#x2F;03&#x2F;20&#x2F;an-update-about-our-wor...</a><p>Post directly on the twitch blog.
_jdzr大约 2 年前
I left Twitch not so long ago (May 2022), not surprised at all by this.
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nubinetwork大约 2 年前
Twitch has made some weird design choices lately, like the paid feature to put a &quot;superchat&quot; below the stream video... (Yes below the video, not in the chat box)<p>Except that the streamer can&#x27;t see them because it doesn&#x27;t show up on the dashboard.
avrionov大约 2 年前
This news comes after the CEO of Twitch announced that he is leaving the company [1]<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=35184011" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=35184011</a>
jdlyga大约 2 年前
Twitch is part of Amazon, so likely just part of the bigger round of layoffs.
theGnuMe大约 2 年前
Why doesn&#x27;t twitch go after youtube? The market seems large enough.<p>Also if they could produce tiktok like gaming videos that would probably be popular.
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Redsquare大约 2 年前
Those terrible mission statements, drop them, please.
ryder9大约 2 年前
amazon in total is laying off 9K people<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theverge.com&#x2F;2023&#x2F;3&#x2F;20&#x2F;23648348&#x2F;amazon-layoffs-job-cuts-aws-twitch" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theverge.com&#x2F;2023&#x2F;3&#x2F;20&#x2F;23648348&#x2F;amazon-layoffs-j...</a>