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- Former Twitch CEO Emmett Shear said he made the “mistake” of over-delegating decisions in the past.
- “No one but the CEO ever really understands what’s going on, because it’s not their job,” he told the “Social Radars” podcast.
- In an email to Business Insider, Shear wrote that over-delegating work leads to “slower decision-making” and “less risk-taking.”
A good leader delegates — but doesn’t abdicate.
Emmett Shear cofounded Twitch’s former parent company, Justin.tv, and eventually served as the streamer’s CEO when it spun off. He watched Twitch grow from a small enterprise to a streaming goliath, including its 2014 sale to Amazon. He eventually left Twitch in 2023.
Reflecting on his time at the helm of the company during a recent appearance on the “Social Radars” podcast, Shear said one mistake he made was over-delegating at Twitch.
When he first started delegating work, Shear said it had positive benefits.
“It was actually really critical for the company that I had someone else who was a CTO,” Shear said. “I didn’t really understand our architecture direction, but I worked with him enough.”
It took time: “We went through a number of CTOs and they didn’t work. They were bad,” he said.
Eventually, Shear said, that delegation turned into thinking that he “wasn’t supposed to override” his employees.
“I’d hired experts, I was supposed to let them do their jobs,” Shear said. “When I didn’t like how something felt, or where I was taking the company, that I should crush down that concern and not act on it.”
That was a “mistake,” he said.
In an email to Business Insider, Shear wrote that over-delegation leads to “slower decision-making on the margin, less risk-taking for the company as a whole, and lower efficiency.”
“I run a much, much smaller company now, so it’s a very different situation that you can’t really compare,” wrote Shear, who runs AI startup Softmax. “But when I was at Twitch, I tuned which things I chose to delegate over time and got better at it.”
The magic recipe, he wrote, was “better judgment from reflecting on past experience.”
On the podcast, Shear said that the Twitch leaders he delegated to were “well-meaning,” but that they “didn’t really understand what we were doing.”
“No one but the CEO ever really understands what’s going on, because it’s not their job,” he said. “That’s my job.”
Shear said he failed in his “responsibility to the company as the holder of the context.”
Shear’s philosophy aligns with Silicon Valley’s “founder mode” ethos. YC cofounder and former president Paul Graham coined the term after hearing a talk from Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky.
In his 2024 essay, Graham criticized the idea that leaders should “hire good people and give them room to do their jobs.”
“In practice, judging from the report of founder after founder, what this often turns out to mean is: hire professional fakers and let them drive the company into the ground,” Graham wrote.
When Graham stepped down as YC president in 2014, Sam Altman rose to take the reins. Shear also has a career connection to Altman; during Altman’s brief ousting from OpenAI in 2023, Shear took over as interim CEO.
On the podcast, Shear said that a CEO’s job is not only to delegate but also to discern: “Is this the kind of decision that we have to get right, or is this the kind of decision where it’s actually OK if we screw it up and it can be a learning experience for somebody?”
“That’s how I learned all this stuff, is I made a lot of mistakes and I got to learn from them,” he said.
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Comey Indicted: A Legal Proverb and a Political Grudge MatchThe recent indictment of former FBI Director James Comey has brought a long-simmering feud with President Donald Trump to a boil, simultaneously resurrecting a classic legal adage about the ease of securing an indictment—the proverbial “ham and cheese sandwich.”
On Thursday, September 25, 2025, a federal grand jury indicted James Comey on charges of making a false statement to Congress and obstruction of a congressional proceeding.1 The charges stem from testimony regarding his handling of the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election. This dramatic development marks a new chapter in the turbulent relationship between the two men, which began with Comey’s leadership of the FBI during the 2016 campaign and his subsequent firing by then-President Trump in 2017.
The indictment has once again highlighted the vast difference between an indictment and a conviction, a distinction famously captured by the legal aphorism that a grand jury would “indict a ham sandwich” if a prosecutor asked them to. This phrase, attributed to former New York Chief Judge Sol Wachtler in 1985, underscores the relatively low bar for securing an indictment.2
An indictment is a formal accusation by a grand jury that there is enough evidence to justify a trial. The grand jury’s role is not to determine guilt or innocence but merely to decide if there is probable cause to believe a crime has been committed. The proceedings are conducted in secret and are largely controlled by the prosecution, with the defense having little to no opportunity to present its case.
A conviction, on the other hand, is a finding of guilt beyond a reasonable doubt by a petit jury after a full public trial. This requires a much higher standard of proof and involves the presentation of evidence and arguments from both the prosecution and the defense, the cross-examination of witnesses, and the unanimous agreement of the jurors.
The “ham and cheese sandwich” analogy, therefore, serves as a cynical but often accurate commentary on the power of prosecutors in the grand jury process. It suggests that securing an indictment is more a reflection of the prosecutor’s will than the strength of the evidence.
In the context of the Trump-Comey saga, the indictment of Comey can be seen through this lens. Supporters of the former FBI Director and critics of the current administration will likely argue that the indictment is politically motivated, a fulfillment of a long-stated desire by President Donald Trump to see his perceived political enemies prosecuted. They may view it as a prime example of a prosecutor leading a grand jury to indict a figurative “ham and cheese sandwich.”
Conversely, those who have long criticized Comey’s actions, particularly his public statements regarding the Hillary Clinton email investigation and his role in the early stages of the Russia probe, may see the indictment as a necessary step toward accountability. For them, the indictment represents a legitimate finding of probable cause that a crime was committed.
The legal battle to come will ultimately determine whether the indictment of James Comey is a precursor to a conviction or simply a political act that proves the “ham sandwich” proverb true once more. The trial will move beyond the one-sided presentation of a grand jury and into the adversarial arena of a courtroom, where the much higher burden of proof will be required to turn an indictment into a conviction.
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