Twitch Funds OBS Developer
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A story about how Twitch supported a single developer who created OBS, the most popular streaming software.
"OBS is an open source piece of software that's basically the most popular thing for every Twitch streamer or YouTuber. It's the easiest way to stream high quality video and audio to Twitch. For years, Twitch didn't have any way to go live directly - if you went to Twitch wanting to be a streamer, they'd tell you to go use OBS. Same thing with YouTube - you couldn't just go live without using more sophisticated software.
OBS is actually an open source project maintained by one guy, Jim. I met this guy - he's about 5'7" with long hair down to his waist, looked like an open source developer. He has extremely high ethics and morals where he's just made the app 100% free. He's been working on it for a decade, and it's supported by donations from people who say 'I run my whole business off OBS, here's $10.'
Twitch actually was paying him every month just to keep maintaining OBS because it was cheaper to just pay Jim a few thousand dollars a month than to have 20 engineers try to recreate this thing."
Shaan Puri
Host of MFM
Shaan Puri is the Chairman and Co-Founder of The Milk Road. He previously worked at Twitch as a Senior Director of Product, Mobile Gaming, and Emerging Markets. He also attended Duke University.