So it wasn't that huge a conceptual leap if you came from our world, but it was a bit of a conceptual leap. I remember very well when I had the idea. I was staying in this spare room in Robert's apartment during the summer, because at the time I was living in New York, and I woke up one morning with the idea. As I was lying there half asleep this i

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what if Discord itself decentralized? What if instead of going public, Discord issued a token? $DISCORD has a nice ring to it. To be sure, this would represent an all-in pivot the likes of which the corporate world has never seen, at a time when everything is already coming up Discord. And it would also represent a legal nightmare, if it’s possible... See more

It’s hard to make a hit game. CEO Jason Citron tried to create a successful gaming studio twice. Both times he ended up expertly pivoting to gaming infrastructure plays. Discord is a product of one of those switch-ups. Bots give Discord defensibility. More than 3 million “bots” have been built on top of Discord’s API. Chat servers use these to mode... See more

Since the beginning of the pandemic, users of all stripes have flocked to Discord, attracted by its chat features, high-quality audio and video chat, privacy, ability to facilitate direct connections, and, unlike Slack, free servers.