Citron: Discord's initial Reddit post yielded a couple hundred signups
Jason Citron · Discord: Jason Citron · Mar 7, 2022 · at 54:24
Discord co-founder Jason Citron recalls the platform's official launch in May 2015 following a community post on Reddit.
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“And from that post, we got, I think, a couple hundred signups. Maybe 50 people really started using it, and that was the day we say we launched, because, like, people we never knew were now coming and inviting their friends, and yeah.”
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