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| Born | (1964-01-11)January 11, 1964 (age 61) New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S. |
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| Known for | Twitch (CEO) |
| Height | 6 ft 3 in (191 cm) |
| Spouse | Sienna Clancy |
| Children | 2, including Savannah Clancy |
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| Followers | 59,000 |
| Contents are in | English |
Last updated: August 2024 | |
| Website | danclancy.me |
Daniel Joseph Clancy[1] (born January 11, 1964) is an Americantechnologist andcomputer scientist. After working atNASA, he was the engineering director forGoogle Book Search from 2005 to early 2014.[2] From 2014 to 2018, Clancy wasvice president of product and engineering at social networking serviceNextdoor.[3]
Clancy becamepresident of Twitch Interactive Inc., the operator ofTwitch in 2019.[4] In March 2023, he becamechief executive officer ofTwitch, after previous CEO and co-founderEmmett Shear announced he would step down.[5][6] As CEO, Clancy reports directly toAmazon VP of Audio, Twitch, and GamesSteve Boom.[7]
After attendingJesuit High School inNew Orleans, Louisiana, Clancy received aBA in computer science andtheatre fromDuke University in 1985.[8] He has a PhD inartificial intelligence from theUniversity of Texas at Austin.[9] While in school, Clancy worked at Trilogy,Xerox Webster Research center andNASA'sJet Propulsion Laboratory.[8]
Clancy has two adult children with his wife Sienna.[7] One of them, Savannah Clancy, is a folk singer-songwriter based inWhite Salmon, Washington. Daniel and Savannah are known to stream together on Twitch.[10][11]
Clancy worked in different positions at NASA, first as a researcher on Integrated Health Management, autonomy, and robotics in 1998. In 2000 Clancy became chief of the Computational Sciences Division atNASA Ames Research Center.[12] Since 2003 he served as director of the Exploration Technologies Directorate, also at Ames.[13][4] The directorate supports over 700 people researching both robotic and human exploration missions. It is responsible for areas including intelligent systems,nanotechnology, entry systems and others. At NASA, Clancy participated in the team that developed the agency's plan to return men to the Moon and eventually Mars.[13] Clancy was also head of information sciences and technology at NASA, leading teams related to artificial intelligence.[9][14]
In 2005, Clancy left NASA for Google, where he worked on International Search Quality, before becoming Engineering Lead for Google Book Search.[15][12] There he worked on scaling the core technology that allowed Google to scan millions of books each year, as well as optimizingsearch rank results.[14] While working with Google, Clancy took an active role in negotiating the Google Book Searchcopyright lawsuit settlement, and has been a spokesperson for Google in public statements about the settlement.[16][17][18]
In 2008 he became Engineering Lead atGoogle Search Properties along withJen Fitzpatrick, with responsibility for all of Google's search products, likeImage Search,Product Search,Google News, Book Search,Google Finance orGoogle Video, with a continued focus on Book Search as well as Google News.[4]
From 2010 to 2012, Clancy oversaw the Engineering and Product Lead divisions atYouTube, again focusing on search as well as infrastructure.[4] He then became Senior Director for Research at Google,[19] leading a variety of research teams including Sibyl, Googlesmassively parallelmachine learning program,[20][21]Human Computer Interaction, personalization and recommendations, and the Course Builder team &EdX partnership.[4]
In 2014, Clancy joined social media siteNextdoor as Vice President of product and engineering.[9][3] As part of the executive team, he was responsible for leading the product, engineering and data science teams.[4] He was Nextdoor's first executive hire outside of its founding team.[12] Clancy left Nextdoor in 2018.
In 2019, Clancy joined Twitch, initially as Vice President of creator and community experience, reporting to CEOEmmett Shear.[9] He later became President of theAmazon-owned parent company ofTwitch, Twitch Interactive, while also leading the product, engineering and go-to market functions.[4][22]
On September 21, 2022, Clancy announced that Twitch would lower thesubscription split all streamers receive to 50/50, from the previous 70/30 for select partners,[23] reportedly to ensure Twitch would not operate at a loss.[24] On the same day,Bloomberg reported that Twitch's Vice President of globalcreators, Constance Knight, would be leaving the company.[25] The company'schief content officer Mike Aragon andchief operating officer Sara Clemens had also left earlier the same year.[25][26][27] The change was criticized bystreamers,[28] as well as the head of competitorYouTube Gaming,Ryan Wyatt, saying "the creator should be getting a disproportionate amount—this shouldn’t even be up for debate".[29] YouTube Gaming offers a 70/30 split, while platforms likeOnlyFans orPatreon take 20% or less.[25] Twitch streamerPointCrow wrote "The fact Twitch's solution to monetary problems is to cut creator pay rather than facilitate a better platform so more viewers visit the live-streaming site is incredibly worrying".[28] On June 15th, 2023, Twitch announced partners with 350 non-gifted recurring subscriptions for three sequential months will qualify for the Partner Plus Program. Eligible partners will receive a 70/30 split for 12 months applicable to their first $100,000 of annual income before returning to a 50/50 split.[30]
On March 16, 2023, Clancy became CEO of Twitch, after previous CEO andJustin.tv co-founder Emmett Shear announced he would step down after 16 years at the company.[5][6] Both Shear and Clancy have been described as "more product-focused than creator-focused".[25] On March 20, Clancy announced that Twitch would be laying off 400 employees, as part of Amazon-wide layoffs affecting 9000 workers across the company.[31][32][33] In January 2024, another round of layoffs totaling 500 people (35% of staff) was announced.[34][35]
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