Discord, every mention
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every year anyone Guy Raz 65Jason Citron 20Wylie Aronow 6Nuseir Yassin 3
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Discord comes up
Advice Line with Gary Erickson of Clif Bar
Sharing the 2023 HIBT Lab Highlight Reel
- ▶ 30:11 Nuseir Yassin A video editor is a content creator, a script writer, a researcher, a producer, right, a Discord community manager, a NAS.io community manager.
- ▶ 32:41 Guy Raz Now you want me to pay my friend who's a runner for, to join his discord?
HIBT Lab! Nas Company: Nuseir Yassin
- ▶ 36:54 Nuseir Yassin A video editor is a content creator, a script writer, a researcher, a producer, right, a Discord community manager, a NAS.io community manager. 2 times in the scene
HIBT Lab! Bored Ape Yacht Club: Greg Solano and Wylie Aronow
- ▶ 25:39 Wylie Aronow And it was like, oh, this isn't like a very egalitarian vibe in those discords.
- ▶ 38:14 Wylie Aronow Um, so in our Discord, in those, like, in that first week, um, 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:05:34 Wylie Aronow In our Discord, and they are just amazing people, and yeah, we just want to, you know, build a good culture in the company, build a good culture, and be good stewards for the rest of the ecosystem. 2 times in the scene
Strava: Mark Gainey and Michael Horvath
Discord: Jason Citron
- ▶ 1:14 Guy Raz I'm Guy Raz, and on the show today, how Jason Citron gave up on building video games and instead created Discord, a social platform for gamers that eventually grew into a meeting place for more than a hundred and fifty million monthly… 12 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:58 Guy Raz Um, this is around 20 12, and, um, you, I think you originally called the company Phoenix Guild, and then you changed it to Hammer and Chisel, um, and you raised a little bit, a little over a million dollars in seed money to launch it. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:46 Jason Citron And he actually pitched me the seed of the idea of what Discord is today.
- ▶ 47:27 Guy Raz When you, I mean, the idea of Discord initially was a way to communicate while you're playing video games, and then to communicate around video games, to talk after 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 50:54 Jason Citron Initially, it was just Stan and a designer who were working on Discord. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:01 Guy Raz So, May 13th, I think, is what you, you consider this sort of the unofficial launch date of, of Discord, because that was the day where you, you released it widely, and, you know, people who weren't your friends could sign up for it. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 56:24 Guy Raz When we come back, in just a moment, how Jason comes up with the name Discord, and how, after remembering a certain conversation with a colleague, he sets out to build a workplace culture that does not suck.
- ▶ 57:51 Guy Raz Was it now Discord? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:01:17 Guy Raz And then the games would finance the company, and people would want to, want the games because the games would enable them to continue to use Discord. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:04:16 Guy Raz I mean, as, one of the things that I, um, that just fascinates me, there are, like, YouTube influencers, uh, and, or YouTubers and others who have Discord channels, um, servers, and they, if you want to join one, they charge you for it. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:08:18 Guy Raz Um, and, uh, it turns out that in 2017, Discord had been used, what was being used. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:10:59 Guy Raz In 2018, you actually launched a game shop called Discord Store, and, and for people who don't play games, a lot of people get their games from something called Steam now, where you just download a game. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:11:18 Jason Citron Yeah, we launched the game store in late, I think it was late, 2018, and this, this was actually one of the first moments that we started to realize that people really wanted to use Discord for things other than playing games or with their… 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:12:47 Jason Citron And so we ended up shutting it down after a couple months and really double down on a subscription service that we had launched a couple years earlier, but weren't really investing in called Discord Nitro. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:15:45 Jason Citron And so in early, we kind of did a small rebrand and then COVID happened and everyone just flocked to discord. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:20:40 Jason Citron And, and it's just always this constant forward motion of making new things.
- ▶ 1:21:02 Jason Citron Nitro is a very healthy business.
- ▶ 1:23:41 Guy Raz That's Jason Citron, co-founder and CEO of Discord. 3 times in the scene