Hardware Podcasts

Discord: Jason Citron

How I Built This · 7 Mar 2022 · 1h 25m

What this episode covers

Jason Citron, founder and CEO of Discord, recounts his journey from building the mobile gaming SDK OpenFeint to pivoting twice before creating the social platform Discord. He details the failure of his tablet game studio Hammer & Chisel, the strategic decision to build a PC-based communication tool using WebRTC, and the subsequent pivot away from gaming to serve a broader audience. Citron also discusses the challenges of scaling culture, handling trust and safety issues, and rejecting a $10 billion acquisition offer from Microsoft.

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founders before launch, early-stage companies and companies scaling up

Topics

Mentioned

Companies
Gree, Hammer & Chisel, Microsoft, Twitch, Full Sail University
Products
OpenFeint, Aurora Faint, Fates Forever, Discord, Discord Nitro, Discord Store, League of Legends, Skype, TeamSpeak
Tools
WebRTC

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