In this episode, I chat with Michael Xu about his career both as a streamer and in building products for this market. Subjects we cover include:

• How he made Top 20 Under 20 in Canada
• The rise of the nerd
• Life as a streamer 
• V-tubers and the culture around them
• Building for streamers
• And much more...

Michael was a former streamer on Twitch and content creator on Youtube for mobile games.  He then took the insights from his time as a streamer to build Kappamon, which is now a beloved addition to over 400,000 livestream channels on Twitch and Trovo.

With Kappamon's revenue Michael is building his own games studio, Adventure Studios: they create unique mobile games at the cross-section of mid-core RPGs and livestream social interactions with their very own vtuber team. Michael runs his operations out of Shanghai and the company is going from strength to strength; they recently close their seed round where they successfully raised $1.5m.

 Interested streamers can check out kappamon.com or on twitter @kappamon_ or for those Vtuber fans, check out vtuber Eoria on Tiktok and Twitter under her handle @eoria_ (same for both platforms).

Finally, the c-walking video that Michael talks about in the podcast can be found here on YouTube. Enjoy!

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