That's the story of our kind of creative progress as humanity is like people build these tools

Which enables the next group of people to focus on a higher level set of problems

Just in the last three weeks since launch,

developers have built over 20,000 new activities

on the platform, and that's generating

4 billion minutes of using interaction per day.

The scale is sort of mind-boggling.

What's going on?

I think something like 93% of Gen Z plays games

where back when we were kids,

it was super weird to be playing games.

We're now seeing some really significant examples of companies being built entirely on discord.

Bill Gates once said that a platform is when the economic value of everybody that uses it

exceeds the value of the company that creates it. That definition does set a pretty high bar for the few companies that surpass it.

But one company does come to mind. And that is discord.

What officially started in 2015 can really be traced back to 2009 when Discord co-founder and

CEO Jason Citron started building tools and infrastructure for games. Fast

forward to today and Discord now has over 200 million monthly active users.

Some might even argue that the Metaverse is actually here, it just doesn't quite look like the Sims.

Now in today's episode you'll get to hear from Jason alongside

A16 Z general partner Andrei Mehta who actually sold his company Yebecree Six to

discord in 2021.

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