the founders and our moderator, kyle russell. ♪ >> thank you for joining us. it seems like for a while so why choose amazon as a partner for growth? >> you see that written down amazon was a really great fit for us for a couple of reasons. we went down and pittston what they thought their future was the meeting of the minds on where we thought gaming was going and how we saw the future of the gaming industry. we really have the same vision and we had a shared vision. we were going to be -- it was assumed we will be powerful. amazon has a great track record. i mean even look at imdb. the founder still running it, philip strong. son to have that level. >> if you look at the history of gaming any go back to the very beginning we had is very social atmosphere. waiting are watching someone else play video games. so as you look at where video games have gone over time there gone from video games, social shared audience interactive something that you play at home. what you have seen as a reemergence millions of times bigger the online. imputed as the next phase of ga

please welcome twitch founders emmitt sheer and kevin lynne and our moderator kyle russell. >> thanksor joining us. the first question is, for the last couple of months i think the assumption was you guys have been purchased by google and then we get the news turns out the giant that was buying you guys is amazon. so you know, how was getting that set up? it seems for a while everyone assumed that google was the way things were going to go down, seemed like a natural fit. so why choose amazon as the partner for growth? >> so i mean, obviously it is an easy assumption to make when you see it written down, that's what your natural assumption is. amazon is great fit for us for a couple of reasons. we went down, we pitched them, we talked to them about our future we talked to them. they pitched us with what they thought their future was. we got to get some meeting of the minds on gaming what we thought gaming was going and how we saw the future of the gaming industry. we had the same vision for what would happen. we had the same vision for twitch doing it, we were going to be a powerful i