Logitech CEO Bracken Darrell on acquiring live-stream app Streamlabs

This week on The Vergecast interview series, The Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel speaks to current CEO of Logitech Bracken Darrell.

Logitech has acquired a couple of companies over the past few years, notably Blue Microphones and Ultimate Ears. Recently, Logitech bought Streamlabs, a streaming software company used by almost half of all streamers on platforms like Twitch and YouTube.

Nilay and Bracken talk about how acquiring this software company makes sense for Logitech, its own hardware that works with Streamlabs, and what it’s like making hardware for big companies like Apple, Microsoft, and Google.

Note: We called up Bracken a week after we recorded our initial interview to follow up on news of Logitech buying Streamlabs. We...

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