The Ledger

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Assertion Supported
Citron: Discord has 150 million active users
“You have a hundred fifty million people, inevitably, like, you know, we're not reading everyone's messages, like, you can't police all of it”
Jason Citron Mar 7, 2022 ▶ 1:16:54 Discord: Jason Citron
Assertion Partly supported
Citron: Discord killed its game store three months after a nine-month build
“It took us nine months to build it, and then we shut it down after, I think, three months.”
Jason Citron Mar 7, 2022 ▶ 1:13:30 Discord: Jason Citron
Assertion Supported
Citron: Automating Twitch subscriber perks drove Discord's viral growth among streamers
“So, we built this integration using Twitch's APIs so that you could, if you subscribe on Twitch, you would get access to a Discord server, and if you stop paying, after, like, a grace period, you would just get removed, and it was just automatic, and Discord e…”
Jason Citron Mar 7, 2022 ▶ 1:02:55 Discord: Jason Citron
Assertion Partly supported
Raz: Discord sees four billion voice minutes and six billion messages daily
“And by the way, there's something like four billion minutes of conversation and six billion messages on Discord every single day.”
Guy Raz Mar 7, 2022 ▶ 1:23:45 Discord: Jason Citron
Assertion Contradicted
Citron: Discord reached nearly one million sign-ups in its first nine months
“I think by the end of the first nine months or so, we had maybe almost a million people who had signed up, a couple 100,000 using it every day.”
Jason Citron Mar 7, 2022 ▶ 57:31 Discord: Jason Citron
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