Jason Citron
11 statements across 1 episodes · 0 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Mar 7, 2022 by Jason Citron · across every show →
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Mar 7, 2022
Citron: OpenFeint raised seed funding using a waitlist landing page
“TechCrunch covered it, and we got a couple hundred People who signed up on the mailing list. And so we actually took that mailing list and went out and raised a seed round of funding. And then we spent the next three months building and launching to launch the…”
Mar 7, 2022
Citron: Fates Forever was a Trojan horse to seed a communication service
“I knew that I wanted to build a game that was real-time multiplayer, that allowed you to spend time with your friends, and have these really fun experiences to, like, create memories together, and then that would also plant the right kind of seeds to be able t…”
Mar 7, 2022
Citron pitched Hammer and Chisel as a games and communications ecosystem
“I described it as we're going to build a new kind of, Gaming ecosystem on, like, the next generation of computing devices, and it's going to be a combination of things. It's going to be games, it's going to be a communication service, and then it's going to be…”
Mar 7, 2022 neutral
Citron: Discord originally planned to monetize via a games distribution business
“At that time, the, we did not actually have a business model implemented. Our plan was, you know, to fund it with venture capital for a little while, and then once we got to scale, to build a games distribution business.”
Mar 7, 2022
Mar 7, 2022 negative
Mar 7, 2022
Citron: Discord rejected acquisition offers because the team wanted to keep building
“The interesting thing about the experience we went through earlier this year, you know, I can't comment on any specific companies, but it was a really crystallizing moment because, you know, I was talking to some of the folks on my team about sort of what path…”
Mar 7, 2022
Citron: Continuing to build games would never have reached massive scale
“Like, I think we could have had a really good small to mid-sized business if we had focused on that game, but from the experience I had building Openfeint, I knew that, like, we, I had these powers that I could use to have positive impact on, like, tens or hun…”
Mar 7, 2022
Citron: Co-founder Stanislav Vishnevsky pitched the standalone idea that became Discord
“One of the engineers at the company, a guy named Stanislav Vishnevsky, came to me and was like, hey Jason, and we've been talking about this gaming communication thing for a while, and he was like, I have an idea for how we could build a communications app tha…”
Mar 7, 2022