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Based in Sydney, Australia, he oversees a team of three people.
Mitchell — who's in his mid-30s and moved to Australia from England when he was 15 — took a somewhat roundabout journey to working at Twitch. He originally wanted to be an animator but decided to go into coding instead, spending a few years as a developer before changing gears and going into radio broadcasting.
As a gamer himself, Mitchell had been aware of Twitch, which was launched in 2011. But it was when he discovered Twitch Plays Pokémon — a social experiment on the live-streaming platform where more than a million players controlled a single character — that he knew he had to try and get a job there.
"It was the first time I'd seen a digital platform that was content-based around video games, and I'm just like, I have to work here," Mitchell said.
He joined Twitch in May 2016 and started his current role as head of content while Sydney was in lockdown this spring.
Mitchell works from his home in the Wollongong area, about an hour south of Sydney. Here's a look at his daily routine.
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