<p>Ben Goldhaber is the Founder and CEO of Juked.gg, a platform for esports and gaming fans to discover and engage with the best events and content from across the global esports community.</p> <p>Before Juked, Ben pursued his childhood passion for online gaming by accepting an offer to work at Twitch where he was a founding team member.</p> <p>Twitch is the global leader in video game live streaming with over 100 million peak visitors that was acquired by Amazon in 2014 for nearly $1 billion. After spending nearly a decade at Twitch, he saw a problem in the online gaming community that needed to be addressed –&nbsp;toxic online behavior from users.</p> <p>His mission with Juked is to contribute to a rapidly growing and thriving esports and gaming community while providing access to the most amazing content and experiences for users while providing an environment free of toxic behavior and commentary.</p> <ul> <li>Loved gaming</li> <li>Childhood dream</li> <li>Gave up convention job</li> <li>Worked at twitch</li> <li>There for ~10 years</li> <li>Company grew to 1000+ ppl; became corporate</li> <li>Toxic behavior was not a priority to solve</li> <li>Had good exit + financial stability</li> <li>Left to start juked</li> <li>Content + good environment + community / people</li> <li>Long term - help contribute to community</li> <li>Eposts and gaming are growing, still early days</li> </ul> <p>Ben knew creating a healthier online social environment alone wasn’t enough so he aimed at content + engagement similar to combining Reddit &amp; ESPN + a social platform all in one.</p> <p>Please enjoy this episode &amp; hope you learn more about the creator economy.</p>