What Ethan Evans has said about Twitch

2 quotes · 1 episode · Oct 28, 2026

Ethan Evans, Former Amazon vice president (Prime Video, Appstore, Twitch oversight) turned executive coach, has been quoted on Twitch 2 times in 1 episode of My First Million, most recently on October 28, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.

In their words

Evans says Amazon's stock rise during the earn-out left Twitch engineers vesting about $2 million a year, causing many departures when it ended.
“we had engineers whose market salary anywhere else was say 200, 250K back then, vesting out at 2 million a year”
My First Million: Ex-Amazon VP tells us what it’s really like working with Jeff Bezos (Oct 28, 2026) · Listen from 2:11
Evans says Twitch burned over a billion dollars in its first five years under Amazon while repeatedly forecasting profitability in three years.
“over the first five years burned over a billion dollars of cash with no real sight to profitability”
My First Million: Ex-Amazon VP tells us what it’s really like working with Jeff Bezos (Oct 28, 2026) · Listen from 30:53

Episodes

Ex-Amazon VP tells us what it’s really like working with Jeff Bezos
My First Million · Oct 28, 2026 · 1 h 16 min
Former Amazon VP Ethan Evans tells Shaan Puri and Sam Parr about Jeff Bezos's management style, flaws, Amazon Prime's origins, and life after Amazon.

In their words

Episodes

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