What it's like to work at Twitch, the $970 million company that's turned gaming into a full-time job
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Justin "TheGunrun" Ignacio is known as a streaming wizard.
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Each month, more than 100 million viewers visit Twitch.tv to watch the best gamers in the world play their favorite franchises, from League of Legends and Dota 2 to Minecraft and HearthStone.
The live-streaming platform grew from humble beginnings. Video broadcasting site Justin.tv spun off its gaming content to a new site, Twitch, in 2011. Acquired by Amazon for $970 million last August, Twitch is now the fourth-largest site in the US in peak traffic.
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I recently visited Twitch's headquarters in San Francisco's Financial District, and discovered those gamers turned tech moguls are really living the life.
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