Discord

“We asked it, Hey, I noticed, I asked, Hey, but how much did the last message cost in the discord adapter? And it was like, it was. It's like, are you serious? 16 cents. That's actually crazy. Like. Go work on driving that down. And so it went and re-architecte…”

“So I think S tier would be Slack. And then Discord, Teams, and then goes like Telegram, and then WhatsApp. They're very, very limited in what you can do, and it's hard, like, you have to have your own phone number if you want, like, a decent experience.”

“It's a really great community. Like, 15,000 people come and hang out on the Discord server. Not all of them take part in every competition, but a lot of good data and good signal is provided to, you know, the upstream model developers through, through that com…”

“I think Slack, I think, and incidentally, I think Discord's awful too.”

“The Bored Apes are blowing up, and suddenly we have more than ten billion dollars of GMV flowing through Discord, buy, sell, pay channels.”

“And we've seen Incredible businesses built by great founders who have pivoted a 180 degrees from the original idea. Discord's that way, for example. And, you know, Slack was famously that way. So the person matters more than the concept.”

“I just created a Discord, And I just put my bot without any security restrictions in the public discord. And then people came in, and they interacted with it, and they saw me build the software with it, and they tried to prompt inject it, and hack it, and my a…”

“And the one file that's not open source is, like, my soul.md. So, even though my bot is in public Discord so far, nobody cracked that one file.”

“A person would give me like a type of channel they were looking for, and I would use my tool to help them find that channel. So I wasn't directly selling it to them because at the end of the day, those people would tell their friends, Word of mouth was so big …”

“I think emails are great, but discord is 10 times better in terms of building a relationship with your users.”

“Discord, I feel like has been baking for a really long time. Large successful platform. That seems like a good candidate.”

“The community has been a huge part of lovable success as well. And that's something that was started very early on. It runs on discord, so it's nothing fancy. It's not like we build anything completely from scratch for ourselves. And it has hundreds of thousan…”

“What I do remember though is we hadn't seen that kind of daily active usage and organic engagement since we had looked at Discord or at Snap.”

“We were Series B investors in Twitter and Snapchat a little bit later in Discord, but all of which we did well below a billion dollars in venture price.”

“We think Twitter, there was a Twitter exodus and it went to like most people think the Twitter exodus went to blue sky and to threads and originally a little bit to mastodon. I would make the case that a lot of it went to discord.”

“The interesting thing about Clyde was that it wasn't really meant to be a, necessarily a helpful bot, but instead more of a social bot, like a bot that would just like be in your channel and, you know, help people interact and that kind of thing.”

“I think you're going to see you're going to see more, more social media move to semi-private that look more like group chats, and it can be around, you know, sports or music or technology or relationships just because I think that people might be a little bit …”

“With the rest, I believe the current opportunities lie within communities. Building those communities where the users are. Discord, Reddit, YouTube following.”

“What they will do is they'll pay off people to, they'll pay off other people to make Discord, ah, sorry, on Discord to make TikTok videos and then have like some commission based agreement. And then these apps are making millions and millions of dollars of mon…”

“I think at least one of them will go public this year.”

“So what I did do is ship a Google form to Discord with like, I think the four questions you're supposed to ask on how to price something. Yeah, exactly. It literally had those four questions, and I remember distinctly, A, you know, I got a price back and that'…”

“Look for, does anyone have a tool for complaints? You can even set up an automation for that on N eight N, but basically looking, just doing the hard work of going into groups and just looking and scrolling and seeing if people if people are asking for tools a…”

“Hey, I'm in the discord, the, you know, the, Cloud anthropic discord. I'm in the user for I'm on X and I'm reading things and like, here's what's emergent. That's step one. Models can do that today. Step two, which the models probably can do today. We just hav…”

“And our team actually, company-wide, I would say over 50, 60% of our team, we found on the internet. We found them on Discord servers. They were early users. They were, we DM'd them on Twitter and said, hey, move across the country.”

“If you're a founder and you like big teams and you like scaling, but you don't want to do the IPO, leaving 12 months before the IPO is the right time, right? The market's not going to be shocked, and you like scaling, you like people, you just don't want to de…”

“But then people are like, you should be in my discord server or like slack. I'm like, absolutely not. Like, I think those things are disasters. I refuse to engage with them. I hate everything about them.”

“Crypto lives and breathes and grows on social. So the people that I will find on Discord or Reddit and Twitter are very different from the people I will find on Meta and Instagram and or Search.”

“Between 94 and 2013, it was a fantastic time to start companies in the consumer software space and invest in them from seed or series A. In 2014, the window just closed. You can look at the number of unicorns created in two th from 2014 to today, and it's real…”

“We don't use anything else other than WAP. We don't use Slack, we don't use Discord, everything's on WAP”

“You know, we spend a lot of time at Discord and, you know, a huge amount of Discord usages in voice channels, and when you look, when you actually kind of spend time looking at and trying to observe what the shape of a great conversation and voice is on Discor…”

“Discord is now going to go out for an IPO this year.”

“Discord, Jason, I knew for seven years. We were founders together before, before investing in Discord, and also smartly passed I was twice on Discord before investing.”

“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.”

“These days, a lot of startups, instead of Doing like email support, they're opening up shared Slack channels, Microsoft Teams channels Discord communities, WhatsApp chats, et cetera. And the biggest problem, the initial problem that we actually discovered was …”

“Your goal is not to sell your product just yet here. Just be helpful. Just establish yourself as the expert. And of course people are going to start knowing you and trust your brand, your company. That will help you down the line. People will think about you w…”

“It certainly helps to in a sense that every successful company along its journey gets acquisition offers. And so by having a cushion, it made it easier to turn down offers because we could just go for the big, you know, outcome and try to build a generational …”

“The real impact from being a second time founder actually has to do with the levels and how there are a lot of levels I had already played once in my previous company, so there were things about building my second startup, about building discord that were easi…”

“The thesis back in 2012, at the time, my sense was that the way you built a durable company in gaming over time was you actually needed to have some kind of established distribution advantage, and so I kind of put these things together and thought that, like, …”

“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.”

“We got 50 users that day from that post. And then that 50 turned into a hundred the next day and it sort of started to snowball.”

“Over a few years sort of following that realized that we kind of went down some dead ends a little bit and that people were not resonating as much with some of the features we were building. So we kind of pulled it back in to refocus on gaming this year.”

“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…”

“I now say alignment is a four letter word. Like I don't want alignment. I want highly opinionated people making decisions and then being accountable for them, right?”

“I pick all the projects Very tops down on what the strategy is and how we're allocating resources, how these things are sequencing together over time so it, it's coherent to our users.”

“But I do think that selecting the right problem sets is It is probably more important than the resource allocation to some extent. Like if you have the right problems, but your resource allocation is sort of wrong, you'll notice that and then you can correct i…”

“The short version is that I don't expect them to do any work for the first, like, 60 days. They come in and they just need to learn. I just want them to meet the people, learn what we're doing, figure out why we're doing things, and every day what I expect the…”

“Microsoft has been a really fantastic partner for us. And there certainly are things that we could have done together with them that we can't do independently, but ultimately it was about You know, controlling your own destiny, I suppose, and really seizing th…”

“I guess I am a good fundraiser. We've raised almost a billion dollars.”

“In fact, I got an offer I think our series A, I had one other offer for a little bit of a better valuation, but I really wanted to work with Mitch. So I chose to work with him.”

“I decided we weren't gonna give, spend the money, you know, the bags of cash on, on, on that title or on any titles, and we shut down the game store. 45 days later, and completely pivoted out of that business, which I had just raised a round of funding off of.”

“All of those folks are expecting liquidity at some point and I would, and I really want to give it to them. So there will have to be some liquidity situation eventually because people want to get paid rightfully”

“I just checked in on a Notebook LM Discord. 65,000 people.”

“I think, honestly, like our fastest way that we've been able to find out if like the servers are down or there's just an influx of people being like, it says system unable to answer, anybody else getting this? And I'm like, all right, let's go. And it actually…”

“We have about 60,000 people in it.”

“It's called Your First Dollar. It used to be called The Collective, but that's like where all the kids go and get trained. And then brands go and like recruit in there.”

“Whereas depending upon your objectives for your company at stage, you're at a discord server, a slack channel, a newsletter, An in-person meetup could be way more impactful to actually, like, converting on your goals as a business.”

“It's impossible for platforms to pick this up because everything is done behind the scenes, the recruiting, the payments, the editorial direction, usually in discords or in text messages or on WhatsApp signal. And it's very, very difficult to pick up.”

“We ended up getting yeah, three, three companies that wanted to buy it. Won't be able to sell them, but ultimately we ended up selling to discord.”

“The community is partially free, partially paid. It costs 300 dollars a year. I'm not sure how, what percentage of people paid 300 dollars, but it's a discord community. He has 60,000 members. On his discord of people who are following the overemployed, like l…”

“Just in the last three weeks since launch, developers have built over 20,000 new activities on the platform that's generating four billion minutes of user interaction per day.”