Emmett Shear, the CEO of Amazon‘s livestreaming service Twitch, is stepping down from his position efficient instantly, the corporate introduced Thursday.

Amazon acquired Twitch for nearly $1 billion in 2014. The positioning is most generally known as a well-liked livestreaming platform for video avid gamers. After shopping for Twitch, Amazon was largely palms off with the enterprise, although it has supplied Prime subscribers perks on the livestreaming platform, reminiscent of free video games and in-game loot.

Shear might be changed by Twitch President Dan Clancy, who has been a “shut associate” to Shear, he wrote in a weblog submit. Shear mentioned he is stepping away to spend extra time together with his new child son. Shear will proceed to work at Twitch in an advisory position.

“With the arrival of my son, the time has come for me to focus my energies on constructing that tiny little startup household, and I am able to dedicate my energies there,” Shear wrote. “Twitch will all the time stay a part of my prolonged household, a group the place I grew in so some ways alongside Twitch itself.”

Shear’s resignation provides to a current exodus of management beneath CEO Andy Jassy. Earlier this month, Ring CEO Jamie Siminoff introduced he was stepping down from his position on the residence safety subsidiary. Final 12 months, executives overseeing Amazon’s Alexa and {hardware} analysis and improvement group, generally known as Lab126, exited the corporate. Final July, public coverage chief Jay Carney introduced he was leaving to affix Airbnb, and 23-year Amazon veteran Dave Clark resigned as retail chief the identical month.

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