He founded OPG with his wife in 2014, right as Twitch was exploding, and right around the time Amazon purchased the gaming site for close to $1 billion. OPG manages streamers and takes a cut of their revenue.
“You wouldn’t expect someone like Tom Cruise to walk into a meeting room and negotiate his contract — he’s got people for that,” Dariani said. “Streamers are getting to the point that they need that, so they can focus on their performance.”
OPG has signed some of Twitch’s biggest deals, and in the fourth quarter, it handled one-fourth of all sponsored deals on the platform, according to Dariani.