Twitch Based in Sydney, Australia, he oversees a team of three people. Mitchell — who's in his mid-30s and moved to Australia from England when he was 15 — took a somewhat roundabout journey to working at Twitch . He originally wanted to be an animator but decided to go into coding instead, spending a few years as a developer before changing gears and going into radio broadcasting. As a gamer himself, Mitchell had been aware of Twitch, which was launched in 2011. But it was when he discovered Twitch Plays Pokémon — a social experiment on the live-streaming platform where more than a million players controlled a single character — that he knew he had to try and get a job there.