


To overcome these, he started working on a chat service that could provide a secure voice and text messaging service for his internal team. While working on developing a free-to-play iPad game, Fates Forever, Jason encountered numerous issues with the existing VoIP options. He was also the founder of Hammer & Chisel, a game development studio. Jason had already tasted success when he co-created and successfully sold OpenFeint, a social gaming platform for iPhone gamers for $100 million in 2011. This was not the first time that CEO, Jason Citron, Founder of Discord, struck gold. A Snapshot of Discord’s Growth From Discord Twitter Discord: A Brief History ĭig in as we take a closer look at Discord’s game plan. While Discord has been slaying big brands like Caffeine, Curse, Teamspeak in the video game communication space, it has also expanded into business team communication space, competing effectively against legacy services such as Slack and Skype.Īfter raising $150 million in funds from its existing investors in 2018, Discord has topped the $2 billion valuation mark. The chat app for video gamers amassed a whopping 130 million users in a short span of 3 years.
