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Discord confirms it's moving toward 'becoming a public company' as it hires a former Activision executive as its new CEO
Co-founder Jason Citron is stepping down, but will remain with the company as a member of the board of directors.
What Jason and Discord co-founder and CTO Stan Vishnevskiy have built is truly remarkable—a platform with an undeniable product-market fit where hundreds of millions of people connect around their passion for gaming and shared interests. "I look forward to working with Stan and Discord's talented team to scale our business while staying true to the company's core mission and the special connection it has with player communities. Like just about every gaming and gaming-adjacent company in existence, Discord botched the Covid-19 pandemic by grossly overextending itself in unsustainable conditions, after which it laid off a large number of employees in pursuit of—you guessed it—"more agility."
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