- Interns should be wary: The world of tech is often too good to be true, says Emmett Shear, former Twitch CEO. “Obviously you want money. But money is well-known for diminishing returns, after you have enough for rent and food and so on. So you don’t want to optimize for cash, it’s more of a constraint,” he says.
When Emmett Shear was CEO of Twitch—the video game live-streaming service he helped cofound—he always took time to speak to the latest batch of interns. One of the most common questions asked was whether they should get a job or become entrepreneurs.
