Emmy-winning interaction
Muxy’s work on Artificial helped turn live audience choices into part of a scripted Twitch series.
Gaming · streaming · interactive media
Co-founder at Muxy, former NVIDIA community manager and producer, and advisor working where games, live video, and audience participation overlap.
Jared Steffes is a gaming and live-streaming entrepreneur publicly listed as a co-founder at Muxy, an Austin company focused on interactive live video and Twitch Extensions.
Muxy powered the interactive onscreen polling for Artificial, the Twitch sci-fi series that won the 2019 juried Emmy for Outstanding Innovation in Interactive Media. That is the cleanest version of the thesis: the audience should be able to shape what is happening on screen.
Before Muxy, Jared worked as a community manager and producer at NVIDIA, helping make the Team NVIDIA Twitch channel. He also contributes perspective to PocketGamer.biz from time to time and advises companies around games, media, product, and audience strategy.
Muxy’s work on Artificial helped turn live audience choices into part of a scripted Twitch series.
At NVIDIA and Muxy, Jared’s work sits inside the practical reality of channels, communities, overlays, and live operations.
His PocketGamer.biz contributions and advisory work connect product instincts with the wider games business.
Artificial won the 2019 juried Emmy for Outstanding Innovation in Interactive Media; Muxy created and powered the interactive onscreen polling.
Jared helped make NVIDIA’s Twitch channel, combining channel production with the community work that keeps live programming alive.
Jared advises companies and writes from time to time for PocketGamer.biz, adding an operator’s view to games industry conversations.
That is the throughline: Jared Steffes as a founder, producer, advisor, and games-industry voice working where streaming platforms, interactive media, and community strategy meet.