We have all seen the Twitch leak, 20-26 year olds making $5,000,000-10,000,000 in 2 years from JUST twitch (no sponsor, donation). What is the equivalent for industry? $500TC isn’t going to cut it, those guys are making that in a couple weeks. Young tech startup founders I guess? I have rarely seen anyone as successful in tech under 27 as those twitch folks. What can we do better?
Start a company and sell it. You don’t get that money working for somebody else, gotta run your own shop. But the upside is more or less unlimited.
>90% chance of failure
Risk vs reward, no?
To younger audiences, big name twitch streamers are the same level of fame as Hollywood actors and actresses. If you want to make that much money, try being in the 0.0001% of entertainers.
Only it's not. The odds are slightly better. There are multiple platforms these days instead of just Hollywood. No more nepotism either to get into these platforms. Not saying it's easy. Just easier relatively
And no more casting couch.
Survivorship bias.
This
Leetcode harder 🤓
You need help
More like you need to LC hard
Yes, and so did early engineers at Facebook, Google, and other successful IPOs.
Not exactly. Look at how old xQc is. He is 25, and made at least 10 million since he was 23 depending on sponsorships Early google eng new grad who joined pre ipo was 23, 2 years after Google IPO, their stock wouldn’t even be worth $1M.
Keep in mind, it’s $10 million cash, no RSU no lockup nothing.
Becoming a top tier streamer is relatively easy. All you need to do is play for a tier-1 professional team (it helps if it's a very well known org like Fnc/liquid), retire, then stream
Why you at amazon then?
To hire and develop the best
The early employees at a unicorn startup that goes public can easily make that
I mean if you are spending your time gaming for a whole year streaming everyday 8+ hours. I would say that’s also high risk. If it fails good luck putting what you learned to a career. However what you learned at that failed startup could still be valuable in your future. Both are high risk I also hear streamers WLB sometimes is not the best
@QkGx85 what if people are already exhausted and burnt out after working long hours for so many years in the startup?
Lots of professional athletes make more than those twitch folks. So do some pop stars and some Kardashians. What's the point?
Lmfao *lots of pop starts *all of the Kardashians
Start a startup. Highly successful twitch steamers are basically all founders or will be founders. At some point they will have a team to produce more content, sell merch, or create a brand around their name.
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