Discord: Jason Citron

How I Built This with Guy Raz

Guy Raz | Wondery

Business

4.8 • 31.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2022

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

During his early career, Jason Citron stepped away from two stalled businesses and pivoted—twice—to something far more successful. The second time he did it, he created one of the most popular social media platforms in the world. It started at age 13 when Jason had a “holy crap” moment, discovering he could make his own video games. His first video game company morphed into a social platform for gamers, and after he sold it, he couldn't resist launching another. When that business failed to get traction, he again re-imagined it as a digital space for gamers to gather, and in 2015, Discord was born. Today, the platform has 150 million monthly users, and is a gathering place not just for gamers, but for anyone who wants to connect with friends.

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0:00.0	Hey, Prime members, you can listen to how I built this early and ad-free on Amazon Music.
0:07.0	Download the app today.
0:09.0	When you leave home, can you ever really go back?
0:12.0	Made a version!
0:13.0	Soccer legend Leo Messi and I both left Argentina as kids.
0:17.0	You know you're that piece of a puzzle that doesn't fit anywhere.
0:20.0	To so many immigrants, football is a way to reconnect.
0:23.0	Listen to the last cop in the embedded podcast feed
0:26.0	to hear the latest collaboration from MPR and Fududo Studios.
0:30.0	Hey, really quick before we start the show.
0:32.0	If you happen to be going to Austin for South by Southwest, I will be there.
0:36.0	On Monday, March 14th from 10 to 11, I'll be talking about how I built this,
0:40.0	the story of the show and all the things that we're going to be doing.
0:43.0	So if you happen to be in Austin, March 14th at 10 a.m. at the Austin Convention Center,
0:49.0	I hope to see you there.
0:51.0	When I started the company in 2012, the idea was eventually to build a game's distribution business.
1:00.0	And so fast forward to 2018, realizing that it wasn't going to work
1:06.0	and isn't what our customers wanted, it was one of those moments
1:10.0	where I was questioning everything like, do I know what I'm doing,
1:13.0	how are we going to build a business, and I actually just kind of physically ill for a week.
1:17.0	Because I didn't really know what to do, because so much of our time and energy
1:22.0	was leading up towards building that business.
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