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 Chloyster [she/her]   ( @chloyster@beehaw.org )  to Technology · 2 years ago

Twitch "isn't profitable" admits CEO, in wake of recent layoffs

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Twitch "isn't profitable" admits CEO, in wake of recent layoffs

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 Chloyster [she/her]   ( @chloyster@beehaw.org )  to Technology · 2 years ago
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Twitch CEO Dan Clancy has admitted the Amazon-owned streaming platform isn't profitable. Clancy led a Q&A stream on Twi…
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    With a Business account, GDrive is $20/month per 5TB… which they just recently updated from $20/month per 1000TB (it used to be $15/month per unlimited TB, then people abused it to store over 2000TB and stuff like that).

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      Sounds like they know most people will never use very much, so they are counting on the lightweight users to subsidize the heavy users.

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        I blame LTT for giving people ideas: https://youtu.be/y2F0wjoKEhg

        He got a few million views on the video, everyone got capped.

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