$3 Streamer Revelation

Emmett shares a story about a surprising revelation he had while interviewing streamers about what motivated them.

"It was a revelation that people would want money because I was like, 'You're streaming 12 hours a week, if we let you monetize at the rates we can monetize today, you'd make like $3 a month.' That didn't occur to me that would be a positive thing.

They're like 'Yes, oh my god that would be amazing!' I was like 'Wait, wait sir, you're serious? You would like $3 a month?' I'm like 'I don't want to overpromise, but you would really be excited if it only produced a tiny amount of money?' And they're like 'Absolutely, just the idea that I could make money doing this would be so exciting.'

That had not occurred to me because it was always easy for me to make money - I was a programmer, I had summer jobs in training for Microsoft. If you're a programmer you can get a summer job in training for Microsoft that pays many many years of that level of streaming in 3 months. It just wasn't in my worldview that that would be so important to them."