Discord CEO and co -founder retires
Discord CEO and co -founder Jason Citron announced that it was Back from his leadership role In the chat app and replaced by Humm Sahnini, former CEO at Activision Blizzard. Citron will remain on the board of directors of Discord, and co -founder Stanislav Vishnevski will continue to act as the Chief Technology Director of the company.
“From the beginning, our mission was about unifying people around the games,” Citron said in a statement. “This is a mission to which I have dedicated my career and I am convinced that the transmission of Humam’s torch is the right evolution for the future of Discord.” While initially he introduced himself as a way to talk to friends before, during and after playing games, Discord has become a much larger and more general social platform, serving “more than 200 million active users a month around the world”, The company saysS
There is an important financial context in the Citron movement. The New York Times In March, Discord is meeting investors to give the company public. Saknini has experience acting as a leader of a public company. He was also president of King Digital – the creator of Candy Crush Other popular mobile games – after the company was acquired by Activision Blizzard. The CEO of veterans can be a natural adaptation to the discord of the IPO. Citron did not deny the plan when Gamsbeat asked If the company is going to be public: “As you can imagine, hiring someone like Humam is a step in that direction.”
Just a few years ago Discord was in negotiations to be Acquired by MicrosoftWhich looked like a natural fit with Xbox. Rumors for $ 10 billion deal failedbut both Xbox and PlayStation The platforms received an integration of discord.
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