Charting the Rise of Twitch

The group recruited popular Twitch streamers/YouTubers like Sky Williams, MaxMoeFoe (above) and Mia Rose to write “Lizard Squad” on their forehead, and tweet them a picture. When enough of these streamers obliged, they relented their attacks on the 

Jeff Bezos finally gets the big foothold in gaming he's been looking for. Twitch gets the infrastructure to match its global growth. Neither wants to be in YouTube's shadow forever. Together they may be a new powerhouse in 

Twitch.

After months of rumors suggesting that Google was prepped to snatch up Twitch, word broke this morning that Amazon had crashed the party and was about to acquire Twitch themselves. Sure enough, the Amazon/Twitch 

That exit would be Amazon's $970 million all-cash acquisition of Twitch. Alsop Louie was one of the first investors in Twitch back in 2007 when it was still known as Justin.TV, a small startup that existed primarily (or so it seemed) to support founder