Executive

Emmett Shear

SoftmaxCo-founder and CEO

🇺🇸 AmericanBorn 1983

Shear co-founded and led the livestreaming platform Twitch as CEO and briefly served as interim CEO of OpenAI. He is co-founder and CEO of Softmax, an AI-alignment research startup pursuing "organic alignment."

Career & education

Current role

Softmax

Co-founder and CEO

Previously

Twitch

Education

University of Washington

Yale University

Work and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.

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