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Jason Citron calls scaling Discord to 1,000 employees his biggest management mistake
“That period for us when we went from 200 to a thousand in basically two and a half years was the moment in time when I think I made the most management mistakes at Discord. And a lot of it is, is where basically I hired a lot of people and because it was a new…”
Jason Citron Nov 25, 2024 ▶ 12:20 Jason Citron, Co-Founder/CEO @Discord: The Untold Story Behind Scaling to 200M Users | E1230 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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Shulman: 90% of Suno traffic migrated from Discord to web in five days
“And so we released this app, we released this web app, which is not even the full functionality of the Discord bot in November, and it takes five days for 90% of the traffic to move over to the web. Five days.”
Mikey Shulman Jan 10, 2025 ▶ 37:10 Mikey Shulman, CEO @Suno: The Future of Music, What is Gonna Happen? | E1244 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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Danny Rimer: Discord is returning to its core focus on gaming audiences
“So what happened was during COVID, Discord became much more of a mainstream platform. So, and now it's going back to what it was when we invested, which is Really a communications platform and vertical social media platform. I wouldn't say social media. I mean…”
Danny Rimer Jun 17, 2024 ▶ 1:17:54 Danny Rimer: The Biggest Lessons from Missing Snap, Airbnb, Spotify and Facebook | E1166 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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Jason Citron says Discord has raised nearly $1 billion in total capital
“I guess I am a good fundraiser. We've raised almost a billion dollars.”
Jason Citron Nov 25, 2024 ▶ 41:09 Jason Citron, Co-Founder/CEO @Discord: The Untold Story Behind Scaling to 200M Users | E1230 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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Jason Citron says his early mobile game Fates Forever was not venture-scale
“It was called Fates Forever. But it was not going to be a venture scale business. Like content is tricky. It wasn't a hit and it didn't amass the kind of following that we needed to bootstrap a network.”
Jason Citron Nov 25, 2024 ▶ 6:56 Jason Citron, Co-Founder/CEO @Discord: The Untold Story Behind Scaling to 200M Users | E1230 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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