Feudal Streaming Policy

A story about how Emmett Shear, CEO of Twitch, used his knowledge of historical feudal systems to solve a modern policy problem.

"I remember sitting in a meeting where we were talking about some policy - how do we handle this situation where streamers are doing this, should we enforce it, should we not enforce it, should we change the policy, how do we take into account what the community wants?

And Emmett would say, 'Well, we could do it like the feudal system in Northern Ireland back in the 1400s.' None of us knew what he was talking about, nobody knew how the feudal system ran. When we asked him to explain, he would break down how their court system worked and then suggest 'Why don't we do that?'

He would connect these dots between historical systems and modern problems in ways that were remarkable. I couldn't believe he even read about that stuff or knew about those historical systems, but he was insatiably curious and widely read, with an ability to connect data points in unique ways."