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This is Recode Media with Peter Kafka, and I am obviously not Peter Kafka. I'm Kara Swisher, the editor at

large of Recode, and the host of Recode Decode. If you're wondering why I'm here instead of Peter,

listen to last week's episode. This week, you will once again be in the hands of Recode's senior

social media editor Kurt Wagner. Before we get to this interview with Discord CEO, Jason Citron, here's your weekly

reminder. Tell someone else about the show. I have to say that or else Peter Cofga will be

extra grumpy with me when he gets back, and Peter Cofka is always extra grumpy. So it's worse.

So that's all I've got for now. I'll be back later in the show to read some ads. Take it away,

Kurt. Thank you, Kara. I am here with Jason Citron, who is the CEO of Discord. Jason, welcome to the show. Thanks for having me. Thank you so much for being here. We're going to talk about a ton of stuff today. You guys have some news that you're going to talk about. We're going to talk about gaming. We're going to talk about messaging, text, voice, all that stuff. But I have to ask you the most important question in gaming right now, which is how many hours a day are you playing Fortnite? Ooh, not enough. Running this whole company thing takes a lot of time. Yeah, is Fortnite, are you a Fortnite guy? I'm really not, actually. It feels like, and I have, I had a 10-year- old Trying to explain to me how Fortnite worked And it made me feel older than I've ever felt In my entire life Yeah But it seems like the game of the moment, right? I mean, I'm not missing that. Yes, that's right, that's right Are your employees playing it? Yes, everybody, everybody's playing it other than me, I think.

Yeah, well, you need to stop working so hard at your company, apparently.

Cool.

Well, I think where I want to start today is kind of what Discord is and who you are.

I think outside of maybe the tech world, there's certainly a large group of gamers who

know who you are, but I don't really even know much.

We've met before a few times and chatted, but I wouldn't consider myself a hardcore

gamer by any stretch.

And so I was hoping you could give us the lowdown of what Discord is.

Yeah, sure.

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